The Basic Skills for Independent Living course at the Brockport branch of The State University of New York offers instruction and recreational opportunities to mentally retarded adults. (CL)

Reports that thinking innovatively and taking prudent risks to bring a golf driving range to Los Angeles City College (California) helped unite the community with the college. Chronicles the long-term and complex partnership process behind this development, which led to a change in campus culture and reinvigorated the campus and community…

In the Corporate/College Program, employees of NYNEX are given a four-year paid college education at Empire State College. Problems in the program, such as student attrition and conflicts between corporate and academic culture, led to such changes as recruiting community college graduates rather than high school graduates. (SK)

A study examining the long-term influences of a university wilderness orientation program interviewed 16 participants 17 years later. Three consistent themes emerged: assumptions of themselves and others were challenged; peer friendships developed had strong, positive, and lasting effects; and the orientation program positively affected their…

Discusses how, through several colleges in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, three powers--the United States, Turkey, and Russia--seek to influence the course of Central Asia. (EV)

An Ohio University program that introduces botany students to field work sent a team to study Hawaiian species of violets and algae, endangered by invasive, imported plants. The situation of the native species relates to larger scientific and ecological issues because algae is the basis of the aquatic food chain, and violets adapt in unique ways…

Canada's Frontier College began in 1899 to bring literacy and citizenship education to immigrant men; in the 1920s it offered university education. However, its early history embodied a legacy of nativism, anticommunism, racism, and sexism as it attempted to assimilate adult literacy learners into Anglo-Canadian sociocultural norms. (Contains 19…

Describes Brown Program in Chemical Dependency, program which has addressed in common the problems with substance abuse that afflict the university's students, faculty, and staff. Notes unique needs of each group while working to develop network of mutual support among all three groups. (NB)

Describes University of Cincinnati's Corporate Spouse Relocation Program, a program designed to help relocated, unemployed partners of dual-career couples who have been transferred or offered a job that requires a move. (NB)

Describes how computer technology has been incorporated into the Writing across the Curriculum Program at West Chester University, Pennsylvania. (MM)

Surveyed National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I universities concerning existence, nature, and effect of drug testing and drug education programs upon college athletes. Findings from 43 head athletic trainers indicated that the trainers believed drug testing helped reduce incidence of drug abuse in college sports programs.…

Examines the evolution of comparative education and international education, as well as their merger, in terms of a "genealogy" detailing destinations and activities of scholars from the 1930s to the present, primarily in Europe and North America. Discusses a variety of definitions for comparative education and international education. (SV)

Describes a newsletter produced by the science education program at Louisiana State University that serves as an information conduit for the university's science departments. The newsletter fills an information void by identifying science seminar opportunities, innovative teaching projects, and grant activity on the campus. (PR)

Describes workshop designed to increase college student awareness of cultural values held by culturally diverse participants and to challenge foundations upon which cultural beliefs are developed that may prevent appreciation of self and others as cultural beings. Describes half-day workshop, part of semester-long leadership development program,…

Describes family policy analysis course, Child Care Think Tank, which was expanded to include off-campus version of the course. Explains how courses were redesigned and linked as an advocacy and empowerment process. Describes how students in resident course planned and organized statewide conference, prepared technical information for advocacy,…