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League of Women Voters Education Fund, Washington, DC. – 1978
This report describes League of Women Voters citizen education campaigns concerning the financing of public schools. Launched in South Carolina, New Jersey, Idaho, Vermont, Missouri, California, and Maine, the campaigns were aimed at raising public awareness and interest in the issues and problems involved in funding public schools, thereby…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Services, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textPresident's Commission on the Status of Women, Washington, DC. – 1963
CONSULTATIONS SPONSORED BY THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN ARE SUMMARIZED. APPROXIMATELY 100 REPRESENTATIVES OF INDUSTRY, LABOR, WOMEN'S AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICIALS ATTENDED THE CONSULTATION ON PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES. SPEECHES WERE PRESENTED BY THE VICE PRESIDENT, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Blacks, Career Counseling, Community Services
ACTION, Washington, DC. National Student Volunteer Program. – 1974
This document contains twelve case histories of high school courses that have experiential learning components in which students are involved as volunteers in community service programs. Each case history is presented in the same format: (1) a brief description of the school and course; (2) a condensed explanation of the benefits to the community…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Services, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation
Correy, Therese; And Others – 1977
Services to the elderly, institutionalized, and physically and mentally exceptional, who are unable to use the public library in its traditional form, are described in this guide to programs at the Inglewood (California) Public Library. Topics include: (1) overall library goals and activities; (2) functional and organizational structure of…
Descriptors: Community Services, Evaluation, Futures (of Society), Guides
Gerber, Dan I.; And Others – 1977
An experimental program is described involving the development of supportive service teams composed of nonprofessionals, volunteers and large numbers of elderly consumers in all of the federally funded nutrition sites in an urban region. The team model is advanced as a particular approach to meeting the federal mandate to provide a range of…
Descriptors: Community Services, Delivery Systems, Economically Disadvantaged, Needs Assessment
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1975
Continuing education/community service programs are increasing in importance as vehicles through which the community college can serve the community. While the idea of the community college being a center for community activities and providing a wide range of services to the community is appealing, there is considerable discussion about the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College Role, Community Colleges
Goodman, Mortimer; Samet, Lillian – 1975
This special project, manned by volunteers, aimed at seeking out and serving "homebound elderly" among whom 22 desired such intervention. College students, middle-aged and older adults were involved in conducting weekly visits. Although no special effort was made to recruit young volunteers for this project, it is suggested that such assignments…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Services, Generation Gap, Helping Relationship
Stephenson, Richard W. – 1975
An approach to the problem of providing social awareness experiences to undergraduate engineering students is provided in this paper. Specifically, this report lists some of the developments surrounding the inception of a social fraternities and sororities program at the University of Missouri-Rolla and events leading to these organizations doing…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Services, Engineering Education, Extracurricular Activities
Erickson, Lowell J., Ed. – 1976
This document presents a plan for a new district-wide college, the New Dimensions College, which would incorporate a wide range of external, nontraditional programs, moving such concepts out of the realm of experimentation and into the realm of active application. The total approach presented here would have the entire Los Angeles Community…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Community Services, Delivery Systems, Educational Innovation
Derr, Donn A., Ed.; And Others – 1975
Documenting several elements relative to regional research on community services in 10 northeastern states as experienced in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Regional Research Project NE-77 (1971), this monograph represents the NE-77 technical committee's effort to identify basic research issues re: the delivery of community services in rural…
Descriptors: Community Services, Concept Formation, Delivery Systems, Models
Anderson, Vernon F. – 1975
This report provides an overview of the campaign to promote and advertise Candidates' Fair '72 and the staging of this one-day statewide political forum. Candidates' Fair '72 (CF '72) was an outgrowth of the philosophy of North Seattle Community College's Center for the Study of Practical Politics, a philosophy advocating that politics is…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Colleges, Community Services, Elections
Coqualeetza Education Training Centre, Sardis (British Columbia). – 1975
This document reports the results of an investigation of the educational needs and interests of the Native American population in the Fraser Valley College service area. It includes a profile of the attitudes and values of Native Americans, a demographic overview of the local Stalo bands, a discussion of the educational and psychosociological…
Descriptors: American Culture, American Indians, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges
Cooney, Joan Ganz – 1976
A three-month summary of the production and programing activities of the Children's Television Workshop, producer of Sesame Street and The Electric Company, is presented. Special programing for the mentally retarded and for ethnic groups, ongoing research efforts, and community support activities are summarized. Projected budget figures from…
Descriptors: Community Services, Early Childhood Education, Educational Television, Ethnic Groups
Wiseman, T. Jan – 1975
The Office of Community Education and Services (CES) was formed in March, 1974 through the merger of the former Office of Community Relations and the Evening College Office at Kishwaukee College. This report describes: (1) the philosophy and goals of CES, (2) a detailed description of existing and planned CES course offerings and public service…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Education, Community Services, Educational Finance
Schnabel, John F.; Simoni, Joseph J. – 1974
Effective response by community service agencies to clientele needs is an essential part of community development. A personnel screening instrument, a model for predicting different types of adaptation to occupational stress, is suggested as a means of increasing the responsiveness of service agencies to their local communities. Proposing the use…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Community Development, Community Services, Models
