This document describes financial aid opportunities for minority students interested in attending collegiate schools of business. It also discusses special programs that certain of the business schools have undertaken to (1) recruit minority students to their campuses; (2) offer specialized courses designed to acquaint the student and businessman…

The outline to conducting a community survey delineates the kinds of information and data about a community of significance to the adult educator--the history and community setting, the people, economic structure, and functional operations. Each topic is subdivided into what to study, sources of information, and implications for adult educators.…

The Parent-Child Center (P-CC), in the central area of Portland, Oregon, has as its objective the alleviation of the problems of inaccessibility and unresponsiveness of existing helping services in the area. It is hoped that through P-CC, central area residents, low-income, non-whites, will achieve the following: (1) effective use of available…

This booklet discusses three Federal programs for the continuing education of adults: Adult Basic Education; Community Service and Continuing Education; and Civil Defense Education. Initiated through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Adult Basic Education began operation in 1965, financed by the Office of Economic Opportunity and administered…

Designed to help secure Federal grants for educational and other university extension services to communities, these state guidelines focus on general program objectives and administrative procedures, grant criteria and conditions, specific application instructions (including budget preparation), review and award procedures, and rules for fiscal…

The San Francisco Consortium was formed in the Fall of 1967 by 5 institutions: City College of San Francisco, Golden Gate College, San Francisco State College, University of California-San Francisco Medical Center and the University of San Francisco. Its primary purpose is to be the instrument through which the resources of the major local…

Studied was the relationship of the mentally retarded (MR) and the juvenile court through an attempt to determine the incidence of MR juveniles adjudicated by the juvenile court in one metropolitan county in Texas, to determine the attitude of juvenile probation officers toward the MR delinquent, and to determine the availability of community…

The unique position of community colleges in the community service structure is described in this guide, and numerous examples of how pioneering colleges are finding their way into the aging field are provided. The chapters of the guide are as follows: 1. Aging as a Priority for Community Colleges; 2. Manpower for the Field of Aging: Status of…

This paper compared the effects of three hypothesized determinants of population change due to migration in 207 nonmetropolitan counties in northeastern United States: (1) the population's socioeconomic status; (2) functional differentiation of community activities; and (3) linkages relating the local, regional, and national economics. Data were…

The Wisconsin "Legislative Council Report to the 1973 Legislature on the Activities of the Menominee Indians Committee" covers the work of the Menominee Indian Study Committee (MISC), along with pertinent background information on the situation in Menominee County. A brief account of Menominee County with a more selective detailed…

Described are activities and plans of the All-Russia Society for the Blind. Noted is the changing composition of society membership in the direction of more members past 60 years of age and fewer children blinded at birth or early childhood. It is reported that all the blind who wish work are employed, and that the society provides professional…

This chart is a tool with which communities can rate themselves on the care of foster children. It is based on a ten-article Bill of Rights for foster children. The ten articles are: (1) the right to be cherished by a family; (2) the right to be nurtured by foster parents who have been specially selected; (3) the right to receive help in…

The purpose of the Community Service Institute (CSI) is to creatively involve Kendall College students in the work of social service agencies and community organizations that are addressing themselves to the needs of urban residents. The goals of CSI are service and education. The College, through its academic program, desires to relate the…

A review of the literature on community service programs in the community college is provided. Emphasized in the review are: characteristics and motives of adult students, community involvement, program planning and administration, community analysis, types of community service functions, and community service program assessment and evaluation.…

In this paper concerning the function of regional service centers serving both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan schools, no effort was made to justify service centers, to compare and describe services in the different states, or to review the literature relating to service centers or intermediate units. Instead, this document presents some…