A training course for employees who must meet the public is presented. It includes the following sessions: (1) You Meet the Public Face-to-Face, (2) You meet the Public by Telephone, and (3) You Meet the Public by Letter. (CK)

A teaching aid and information source on activities, principles, and practices of cooperatives is presented. The following topics are included: (1) Basic Interests of People, (2) Legal Organization of Business in the United States, (3) What Is a Cooperative? (4) Procedure for Organizing Cooperatives, (5) How Cooperatives Are Run and Managed, (6)…

This document presents a creatively written description of Antioch College in Columbia, Maryland, written by a college consultant who was hired as a consultant to the governing council of the college to make an analysis of the college's governance system and the learning and social environment of the school. The author describes how the…

Grunig's decision-situation model is proposed as a comprehensive framework under which various public-relations-related theories may be subsumed. The decision-situation model postulates three dimensions which, taken together, may predict the course of communication behavior: level of involvement, problem recognition, and structural constraints.…

Suggests ways for insuring that a corporate information center will retain its financial support, including a format for self-assessment. (PF)

"Harvard Magazine," an alumni publication which entered the public market for national consumption in 1974, now has a circulation of 52,000 and a $100,000 annual deficit but hopes to be self-supporting by 1980. Rationale and format are described. (JT)

This schedule, a month-by-month list of communication activities, is intended to assist the school communicator in strengthening school-community relations. The communicator must reach all school constituents (parents, staff, citizens) with his program. (DS)

A three-phase model of public consultation and inquiry concerning the needs of the family was undertaken in British Columbia to identify those forces in society which enrich family life and those that pull the family apart. This article contains descriptions of the findings and a general evaluation. (Author)

Administrators offer advice on how to deal with the media. (IRT)

Describes the rationale and effectiveness of a course that introduces students to the necessity and advantages of cooperation between public relations and advertising people. (RL)

Discusses four aspects of a program to implement public relations objectives of high school newspapers: research and planning, fund raising programs, publicity, and evaluation. (GW)

The need for students and advisors to thank sponsors and supporters of Future Farmers of America (FFA) activities. (JH)

While recognizing that every school community has unique public relations needs, the author presents eight suggestions that apply universally. (Author/IRT)