The Thailand Land Titling Project includes a training and development component aimed at long-term sustainability. A training target matrix was developed to identify the knowledge, skills, experience, and performance standards required and needs for training at various levels. Six broad and flexible career paths allow for logical succession,…

Describes how two partnerships have applied nine principles of good partnership to move beyond funding setbacks, including grant application rejections, to implement programs and make partnership progress. Experiences of the Marion Area Partnership, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, and the Partners for Progress in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, show how…

Describes discussion at the Salzburg Seminar on the meanings of autonomy in European and American higher education, and explores why, for eastern European and former Soviet universities, the quest for academic freedom is complicated: greater institutional and faculty autonomy has brought more dependence on external funding. (EV)

Funding for community development in Ireland promotes a conflict management approach. Defining women's roles as apart from conflict is a political maneuver that does not aid reduction of conflict, obscures women's political agency, and limits the access of women's organizations to funding. (Contains 52 references.) (SK)

Uses definitions of responsive, rigid, and resilient institutions to assess how higher education has responded to four major challenges: access, financing, management, and teaching. (EV)

Briefly describes the contents of "K-12 School Technology Best Practices," a recently published 500-page book for those involved in making technology decisions; briefly summarizes the book's four sections on technology planning, funding, implementation, and management. Gives the price of the book and where it can be purchased. (PKP)

Rural agricultural development is facing challenges of poverty, hunger, and environmental quality, necessitating sustainable, profitable, and productive practices. Extension education is challenged to increase diversity, relevance, and financial support. Examples of World Bank innovations illustrate some pathways for agricultural extension. (SK)

This theoretical essay uses tacit knowledge, the often-undocumented wisdom of experts, to explore future prospects for academic librarians. Identifies traditional and emerging valuations of the academic librarian held by higher education stakeholders and explores practical implications for university funding using the philosophical stance of…

Summarizes universe data on public libraries in the United States. Includes information about public libraries' administrative structure and legal basis, operating income and expenditures, staff, collections, and services. (Author/SLD)

Examines longitudinal funding for 513 public institutions over the time period 1995-1999 using the IPEDS database. A comparison across institutional types is presented, and student affairs funding also is compared with other major campus units. (Contains 16 references and 4 tables.) (GCP)

Focuses on three areas for building effective school, family, and community partnership programs: a planning framework, an organizational structure, and an assessment of challenges. (Contains 23 references.) (PKP)

Discusses controversy involving state funding of Pennsylvania cyber charter schools. (PKP)

Predictors of perceived family bonds were examined among homeless young people who initially left home one year earlier. Newly homeless young people aged 12-20 years who had recently left home were recruited in Los Angeles County, United States (n=201) and Melbourne, Australia (n=124) and followed longitudinally at 3, 6, and 12 months (follow-up…

This article explores intergenerational financial transfers from parents to adult children and grandchildren within a life course perspective. Research on intergenerational financial transfers has been sparse, and little is known about the financial support older Canadians provide to family members or about the meaning of that assistance. Survey…

Technology is expensive--making innovation beyond the reach of most school budgets. And since constant improvement requires continuous funding, how do school districts, buildings or classroom teachers fund the products they need to improve student learning? The answer is through external grants. But grants require applications, and few, if any,…