Describes development and implementation of a theoretically organized, skill-based curriculum developed for practicing managers in public service in New York and delivered by 15 different postsecondary institutions. (Author/CH)

Suggests that the problems resulting from competition between credit and noncredit programs can be resolved by creatively integrating and articulating credit and noncredit courses. Offers examples of integrated programming. (DMM)

Critiquing the bureaucratization of Federal Civil Service, the author suggests production by workers would be promoted by the introduction of the profit motive and the use of performance management. Civil service pay, benefits, security, and prestige should be the rewards of efficient production. (MD)

Faculty and administrators responded to 32 activity statements related to "scholarship" on a frequency basis and on the characteristics of the role. Factor analysis revealed six dimensions of scholarship-professional activity, research (publishing), teaching service, artistic endeavor, and "engagement with the novel." (Author/MLW)

The case for university extension activity in the engineering field is made. The need for such services is described. Benefits to the university and to the practicing engineer are also described. (TS)

Proposes that public service be made a career in the full sense of the term and suggests changes in the selection of city, county, state, and federal officials and legislators to help bring about the development of politics as a professional career. (SK)

Argues for more equitable and effective public funding of private schools serving the categorical needs of learners. (Author/WD)

The benefits of cooperative education for recreation specialists are discussed. (JD)

While the job market for park and recreation professionals is currently tight, it should be expanded by the need for such personnel in the areas of public services. (JD)

Colleges' and universities' commitment to community service is largely lip service. Conditions that would encourage more than just the very committed do not exist on most campuses. Communities are not voids to be organized and filled by the more knowledgeable; they are well-developed, complex, and sophisticated organisms that demand to be…

Describes the development of a new interface called GPO Gate for accessing the Government Printing Office (GPO) WAIS (wide area information server) databases, GPO Access. Highlights include development and use of GPO Gate at the University of California, San Diego, and implications for public service. (Author/LRW)

Uses a praxis methodology to explore the possibility of student transformation through participation in an interprofessional university-community partnership (the Neighbor-to-Neighbor program involving Saint Louis University). The experiences of participants in one partnership provided a focal point for questioning assumptions about the nature of…

Discusses why liberal and professional education must be reinvented to include socially responsive knowledge as a key component of every college student's education. Describes faculty attitudes toward civic engagement and faculty initiatives at Portland State University. (EV)

Describes the community involvement and redevelopment efforts of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, including the implications for curriculum, the importance of evaluation, and the need to institutionalize such efforts. (EV)

Asserts that juxtaposing traditional notions of liberal education with emerging views of civic engagement, captured most forcefully by the service learning movement, reveals common themes rooted in a democratic vision of society and the power of education to advance citizenship. (EV)