This report describes an infant day care curriculum which provides guidelines for programs that are involved with very young children. The goal of such programs should be the development of children's self confidence, love of learning, and feelings of importance and success. Activities for infants and toddlers should stimulate intellectual…

Presented is the SOCRATES (Synchronized Objectives and Competency Rated Activities Teacher Education System) model for preservice education for secondary school science teachers at the University of Toledo (Ohio). Separate courses have been replaced with a sequence of modular-based learning experiences designed to develop each student's…

Deferred Opportunity Education is a challenging opportunity by a small, day college in southeast Pennsylvania (OUR LADY OF ANGELS COLLEGE) to attempt to reach out to the adult women of the local community. The program permits any woman to return to college on a class schedule which has been tailored to her needs in terms of class hours, credits,…

Outlined in the brochure are the language arts, motor perception, and curriculum modification components of Project Success (Nebraska), a program funded by Title III for elementary level students with specific language disabilities (SLD). Numerous cartoons and photographs are included. Characteristics such as reading slowly through having an…

This speech discusses background information concerning Affirmative Action programs and the implementation of such a program at Washington University. Emphasis is placed on the development and implementation of a comprehensive Affirmative Action Plan, problem areas, and prognosis for the future. A copy of Washington University's Affirmative Action…

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. This issue presents a description of the bilingual program in progress there; many photographs of the region and Project are included. The text is in French and English. (SK)

The Strategies for Change and Knowledge Project is a concrete attempt to apply the Lindage model to eight colleges and universities. It is completing its third year of on-campus task force action to stimulate academic reform, of linking agent, survey feedback, workshop and consultant aid to those problemsolving efforts, and of external research…

Cutbacks in funding and personnel required the Mankato State College Library to gain more effective control over its serials collection. The task was to integrate the various data, some unrecorded, on standing orders and serials holdings and to produce for the library directors specialized lists of many types: all titles ordered from a specific…

A program at Staten Island Community College called "heating up" is designed to help students take control of their own education. The program asks each first-semester student to join an Educational Development Seminar (EDS), which meets once a week for an extended period of time, and includes 15 to 20 students and a faculty leader or…

During the 1972-1973 year the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) implemented a variety of program activities to improve training skills, to assess needs, and to package certain products for dissemination to the profession in general. Specific activities included training sessions, on-site visits, development of instructional materials, and…

A project to accommodate the large and increasing enrollment in introductory computer science courses by automating them with a subsystem for computer science instruction on the PLATO IV Computer-Based Education system at the University of Illinois was started. The subsystem was intended to be used for supplementary instruction at the University…

This pamphlet briefly reports on an experimental program designed to help the underachieving student whose academic and behavioral problems keep him in trouble with school officials. The project is based on the following premises: (1) children who learn basic academic skills and appropriate behaviors will be less vulnerable to future problems; (2)…

Divided into five major sections, this paper describes a new algorithm which has been implemented in an extended FORTRAN program which runs on a CDC 6500 computer. The first section of the paper briefly outlines the goals of network analysis and presents the context in which these goals must be met. Section 2 describes the algorithm and the…

The role of the community college today and new programs that it offers are discussed. In its role as a comprehensive, multifaceted institution, the community college not only provides academic education but also attempts to be a "people's college" by providing many services to a wide variety of people, a "servant of the community," and a "center…

A description of the course and the facilities for the course are given. The Course Log which lists the lectures, cruises, and other activities available to students is also given. The abstract or the paper of each students' individual research project has also been printed. The subjects of these projects range through all fields of earth science…