This study investigates community service programs for the disadvantaged at inner-city community colleges to construct a descriptive history of the various programs' origins, development, and essential components. Additional information was collected on (1) current program descriptions, (2) the programs' financial and physical resources, (3) their…

Community development can be defined as a public-group approach, dedicated to achieving the goals of the total body politic. The public service function of the land grant colleges and universities is specifically designed to advance their respective states socially, economically and culturally and these institutions must serve as viable resources…

Junior colleges are increasing their community services--those activities beyond regularly scheduled classes--by (1) encouraging community groups to use college facilities and services, (2) providing the college's special educational skills to all age groups, (3) supplying leadership and coordination experience to community long-range planning and…

Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 has demonstrated that institutions of higher learning can make an important contribution to the solution of community problems through community service projects. But there are limitations, the greatest of which are lack of adequate program funds and mounting program needs, particularly for programs…

Contra Costa College tried several ways to reach potential students who were unaware that they were eligible or even that the college had anything to offer them. Articulation with high schools, contacts with other agencies, and the mass media were of little help. The idea of a central, off-campus counseling center was abandoned in favor of the…

A collection of articles that have appeared in the Junior College Journal, as well as selected articles from Developing Junior Colleges, was compiled in conjunction with the Program With Developing Institutions sponsored by the American Association of Junior Colleges. The purpose of the monograph is to provide guidelines for developing colleges in…

The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is composed of representatives of the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago working together to strengthen higher education through voluntary cooperation of their respective member institutions. This report outlines and describes the various activities undertaken in 1968-69 by the…

Papers at this university extension conference discussed problems in administering and funding Title 1, Higher Education Act of 1965; prospects for building institutional capacity for community service; a plan for the application of Title 1; objectives for universities and Title 1 agencies; and a multiphased design for applied research and…

A proposal is made to use LSCA funds for the purpose of establishing a community video center in the Memphis and Shelby County Public Library and Information Center (MSCPLIC). The center would be designed to assist citizen groups of all kinds in presenting programs on the new cable TV system now being installed throughout the city of Memphis. Such…

Forms used for data collection in the Cornell-OEO Project fall into the categories of recruitment and selection, family assistant training, in-service training, supervisory records of family assistants, service-family contacts and visits, reports on visits to Cornell-OEO Project, work with groups outside the project, and analysis forms.…

This document describes the development of an inventory of higher education outcome variables and measures. The intent of the inventory is to assist different kinds and levels of decisionmakers in communicating the desired and actual outcomes of instructional as well as research and public service activities. Two guidelines for using the inventory…

Presented by the American Foundation for the Blind are background information and a policy statement on consumer participation in the area of services for the blind. Noted is past significant leadership blind persons have manifested in surmounting physical, social, and economic problems. Considered are ways to make known the consumer's point of…

The six sections in this manual are: (1) Evaluation of Standards, (2) Implementation of Standards Through Accreditation, (3) Conducting the Agency Self-Study, (4) Contents of the Agency Self-Study Report, (5) The On-Site Review and (6) Translating Study into Action. The appendix contains coding instructions for sections C and D of this guide.…

In Part I of this section of the guide, the agency is asked to set down a clear and comprehensive statement of its philosophy of service and program objectives. Part II calls for basic factual data concerning the agency and the community it serves. Part III seeks to ascertain the agency's policies with respect to certain principles adopted by the…

Fundamentally, library services should accomplish the same objectives for the blind and visually handicapped as for the sighted. There are, nevertheless, important differences arising from the need to compensate for lack of sight as well as from the conditions which blindness imposes on the means of rendering library service. By definition, blind…