The college's role in promoting community service activities and in developing students' sense of civic responsibility is addressed in two articles: "Community Service and Higher Education: A National Agenda," by Governor of Virginia Charles Robb and Brown University President Howard Swearer; and "Community Service and Higher…

This report details an evaluation of the effects of outreach activities of Project Literacy U.S. (PLUS) on community responses to the illiteracy problem. Part A describes general findings regarding PLUS task force activities during the campaign's first year, December 1985-June 1987. Section I is an introduction; Section II describes activities…

The views of 1,105 faculty members at seven diverse colleges and universities relating to pay-promotion criteria were surveyed. In addition, the parallel-perceptions inquiry enabled comparison of the views of 36 Harcum Junior College faculty and those of 1,069 faculty representing large, medium, and small colleges, both public and private.…

Assessing the economic progress of blacks in the United States during the last decade and a half, this special report is divided into eight chapters. Chapter I provides an overview of the report noting the overall conclusion that the economic position of blacks (as well as that of other racial minority groups and of poor whites) is not likely to…

THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO STUDY AGRICULTURAL PUBLIC SERVICE TECHNICIANS IN THE STATE TO DETERMINE (1) THE NUMBER EMPLOYED BY FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL AGENCIES, (2) EXISTING SHORTAGES, (3) THE TYPE OF TRAINING NEEDED, (4) DESIRABILITY OF TRAINING PROGRAM AT MT. SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE, (5) EQUIPMENT AND PROGRAMS NEEDED, AND (6) EQUIPMENT NEEDED IN A…

Focusing on the occupational clusters of public service and personal and product services, this unit entitled "Pet Industry" is one of four grade 2 units which are part of a total set of twenty-seven career development curriculum units for grades K-6. This unit is organized into four sections. Section 1 identifies one career…

Focusing on the occupational cluster of public service, this unit entitled "Postal Workers" is one of four grade 4 units which are part of a total set of twenty-seven career development curriculum units for grades K-6. This unit is organized into four sections. Section 1 identifies one career development-centered curriculum (CDCC)…

Part of a course designed to acquaint high school students with basic information concerning careers in public service, this student guide is one of nine (each with accompanying teacher's manual) which constitute a course entitled "Orientation to Public Service." Focus in the units covered by the guide is on social and economic services,…

Although it is a commonplace observation that urban-industrial growth necessitated the development of the police and the schools as the family, church and personal cross-class relations became inadequate to the task of social control, socialization, and the channeling of mobility, studies of the growth of these urban public-service organizations…

A curriculum guide for grade 8, the document is devoted to the occupational cluster "Public Service Occupations." It is divided into six units: education, public utilities, community social and health services, law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and the postal system. Each unit is introduced by a statement of the topic, the…

The three year Vermont Experimental and Demonstration Project, sponsored by Manpower Administration, was designed to provide basic empirical data on the feasibility and usefulness of public service employment as a manpower tool to provide transitional employment opportunities for low income unemployed and welfare recipients. Data was collected on…

The traditional model of academic service through faculty expertise and consultation is being supplemented by "service-learning" that focuses on students. Benefits of this new model are discussed. (Editor/LBH)

Examples of service-learning at Stanford and Michigan State illustrate one dimension of the service function and point to two other dimensions as life-style possibilities for students and career goals for faculty. Specific programs and their rationale are described. (Editor/LBH)

New approaches to student aid by the Indiana Student Financial Aid Association are discussed. The National Education Foundation would administer two programs, the Educational Service Program (provide educational benefits to students for service to their communities) and the National Family Postsecondary Endowment (benefits to families based on…

The article discusses Gallaudet University's efforts at early intervention for hearing-impaired children in three areas: serving deaf children from birth through three years in a parent-infant program, preparing specialists to work with hearing-impaired and multidisabled infants and their families, and conducting family/early intervention…