Considers whether the coming of community education will be considered an opportunity or a threat by existing organizations and whether, when it arrives, it will resemble the product sold to the community. (Author/DN)

Concrete suggestions for improvement of university-community communication and relationships. (CH)

This study focusses on finding out how leaders in three small communities view Extension. The results show that community leaders see the importance of Extension primarily as it contributes to the economic development of their communities. The author discusses implication for Extension and outlines some strategies for working with community…

This report summarizes the response of 80 sponsors of Indochinese refugees in Nebraska to a survey designed to explore their sponsorship experience. Problem solving areas for sponsors and refugees are named as: acculturation, emotional adjustments, communication, health, housing, transportation, employment, and legal, financial and consumer…

Research addressing the question of what type of neighborhood environment is most supportive for older persons has identified a number of variables characterizing the physical or social context which interact with the personal characteristics of an individual to produce supportive or nonsupportive environments. Neighborhood environment was…

Since the advent of institutional care in the nineteenth century, there has been extensive discussion concerning the relative merits and constraints inherent in such service provision. In the twentieth century, the trend toward institutionalization began to be reversed. Patients or clients were released or returned to communities and community…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this booklet is the ninth in a series describing current, successful career education practices. Intended for teachers, this monograph discusses ways in which schools can involve the community in a career education program.…

Tangential pieces and parts of work experiences of a psychologist-educator-researcher are put together in this collection to let the reader into the real world of education and experimental projects. The book is a loosely structured compilation of information taken from a personal journal, reports, and tape-recorded interviews of the people dealt…

Relates the experience of Pinellas County, Florida, in achieving a voter-approved property tax increase on behalf of St. Petersburg Junior College, focusing on the use of volunteers and on older person's votes. (MB)

Success in new missions for community colleges requires a sense of legitimacy that colleges have lost in recent years, in terms of the internal and external conviction that the college's activities are necessary, worthy, and effective. (MB)

Results of a questionnaire of administrators of community living arrangements programs for the developmentally disabled in Pennsylvania (N=116) found that some programs promoted relationships with neighbors, but others wished to keep the role of neighbors to a minimum. (Author/DB)

An overview of the history of school health programs is given. The support of the community, faculty, school administrators, and elected officials is necessary for a successful school-based program. (MT)

This article describes the free education system of Guyana. It includes information on nursery and primary education, secondary education, technical and vocational training, special education and continuing education, teacher training, higher education, and educational finance. The importance of community decision making and financing are…