For people concerned with the future of diversity in the United States, the month of June 2003 was a momentous watershed. Nearly four decades earlier, President Lyndon B. Johnson first advocated affirmative action as a means to "seek not just freedom, but opportunity." June 2003 also saw the 25th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's…

This paper analyzes the distribution of power in street-level bureaucracies that deliver public services and critically examines the sources of this power. The mechanisms and political environment which allow street-level bureaucrats to make public policy are discussed in detail. (EB)

Health educators in the future will have to become more active in political and economic processes, and serve also as planners, administrators, and consultants to other health-related professions. (JD)

Analyzes the linkage between education and black bureaucratic employment. Findings indicate that black bureaucratic employment is dependent on complex sociopolitical factors, of which black educational attainment is a byproduct. (Author/DB)

Compares and contrasts three approaches to community service: charity, service learning, and citizen leader. Advocates using the citizen leader framework because it educates students for leadership and emphasizes reciprocal learning for all involved. Claims that this framework complements the goals of institutions of higher education. (RJM)

Describes the development of service learning in a special school for students with learning, emotional, and behavioral challenges. Discusses the poor self-image that many troubled youth possess and suggest ways to help students refocus on their good qualities through service work. Outlines service partnerships and a service culture. (RJM)

Identifies five specific areas in which John Dewey's writings contribute to service-learning: linking education to experience; democratic community; social service; reflective inquiry; and education for social transformation. Argues that these contributions form the basis of a cultural and political critique and reconceptualized pedagogy aimed at…

Scholarship of engagement has meaning at two levels: (1) connecting the university's rich resources to the most pressing social, civic, and ethical problems, making it the staging ground for action; and (2) creating a climate in which academic and civic cultures communicate more continuously and creatively, enlarging the universe of human…

Describes the current interest and activity in community service and the undergraduate educational experience. Argues that recognition by faculty, administrators, and agency officials is necessary to ensure that community service projects successfully combine service with learning. Offers recommendations for implementing a program that cultivates…

A study was conducted to identify: the diversity of community services in dental schools; faculty and student involvement; the extent to which service has been integrated into dental school; and the relationship between school type, enrollment, year of establishment of community services program, and the diversity of services. (MLW)

Five articles discuss current publications and reports concerning youth. Topics include: (1) services that states must provide to fulfill requirements of the federal independent living program; (2) progress of handicapped children in schools; (3) ways in which southern states have faced their problems; (4) girls' substance abuse; and (5) youth and…

An interview with Charles Moskos and David Evans, active in the drafting of legislation for establishment of a youth public service corps tied to federal student financial aid provision, addresses the rationale, objectives, costs, and implications of such a program. (MSE)

An explicit, nondiscriminatory code of conduct that is based on due process standards, and the enforcement of relevant laws can constitutionally address offensive behavior problems in libraries. (AEF)

A "value" concept for faculty service work increases the attractiveness of service activities by establishing an incentive system that fosters real integration of service into the research, teaching, and service promotion and evaluation triad. The model allows administrators to structure service projects for mutual benefit to faculty,…