The proceedings of the first Region VI Conference of the National University Extension Association held at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, include panel discussions and major talks given. The objective for the conference was to provide a special training opportunity for all staff needs in higher adult education in the West. Topics covered…

This paper is devoted to a discussion of characteristics of innovative educational personnel and factors, such as the educational institution, that may affect innovative actions. The paper is divided into three sections. Section one presents a literature review that centers on three categories: leadership, qualities of innovativeness, and change…

The particulars of the evolved curriculum and how the training has evolved around the change-agent concept are stressed in this presentation. The measure of success achieved in attempting to influence the staff and course of studies of the regular guidance department is also emphasized. The curriculum of this counselor training institute has, from…

Social control and human engineering are vital factors in providing balanced, controlled, planned directions for educational decisionmaking. Designed to encourage individual growth, these factors are morally neutral; the way in which they are implemented determines their worth. (Author)

Two of the tasks of the Results Oriented Management in Education (ROME) Project are the identification of competencies of the principalship from the professional literature and the classification of these competencies by functional areas of responsibility. Three considerations became criteria in classifying existing competency statements to fit…

Because the year-round school, if adopted, produces change in the way of the lives of students, their parents, school staff, and possibly much of the community, an information dissemination program about the year-round school must be broader, more inclusive, and better planned and executed than any other innovative program in a school district.…

The assumptions of sociolinguistics are contrasted with those of its more static predecessors in light of their potential for bearing on educational problems. The focus on variability with regard to sex, age, style, socioeconomic status, race, education is more akin to the dynamics of the linguistic and educational setting in which a child finds…

Courses By Newspaper is a national program that offers college-level instruction through the newspapers. The courses have as a target audience the adult learner who has never attended college, the college graduate, and the college dropout. The newspaper lessons are distributed to participating newspapers by the Copley News Service. The newspapers…

This paper describes the reflections of college seniors on their four years at a small liberal arts school on the verge of major changes. A random probability sample of the senior class of 1972 were interviewed during their final semester before graduation. This class received a relatively traditional education and represents the before group in a…

A proposed tenth dimension to the Los Angeles Community Colleges nine-campus system would be a college "type" organization but without any campus location. Its purpose would be to provide educational programs and collegiate recognition of the following six concepts: the concept of life-time learning, shift emphasis from degree…

This interim report evaluates the achievement of seven objectives in the Francis R. Howell School District Innovative Program. The objectives of the program were teacher improvement in the areas of: (a) effective questioning, (b) the writing of behavioral objectives, (c) diagnosis and evaluation, (d) individualized instruction, (e) science…

The first section of this issue presents common and current educational issues and developments in school systems throughout Europe; it is written in French. The second part consists of reports from the Council of Europe's member nations concerning educational issues relevant to that member. The articles are, for the most part, written in the…

The goal of the Total Involvement Professional Semester (TIPS) was to allow elementary education students at Shippensburg State College to become involved in an educational environment in a meaningful way to develop their professional knowledge and skills. The experimental program consisted of five important components: a) three weeks of…

This report is one of a series of background studies especially prepared for the Conference on Future Structures of Post-Secondary Education held in Paris in June 1973. Following a discussion of the stimuli for change and responses to this stimuli in American higher education, a detailed description of the Extended University of the University of…

The New College Living-Learning Unit was begun in 1972-73 as an optional beginning semester for New College freshmen. The basis for the curriculum was taken from the regular freshman program at New College but given a 'unique' substance (the notion of community from a multiplicity of discipline perspectives) and unique physical facilities. The…