An original goal of Chicano Studies was to promote improvement of social and economic conditions in the community, with Chicana and Chicano scholars at the forefront of community struggles. Within this perspective, research is problem-based and part of the community action process. Chicano community groups want to work with researchers and…

"Engaging Residents to Improve Results for Children and Youth, Families and Communities" is a "Toolkit" that is the product of an international working group composed of delegates from six participating nations--Chile, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2002, the working group set out…

Discussed the responsibilities of the community college toward the local community, and specifically considered the importance of satisfying youth, aged 16 to 19, in order that those transitional years are spent in a positive manner. (RK)

Description of a model nutrition implementation program as a communication system. Focus is on developing countries where, author maintains, there is an over-emphasis on surveys and collection of data. Problems on program implementation are discussed. (LK)

Author concludes that paraprofessionals can be effective in teaching children, and that a participatory educational approach from the bottom up may be much more meaningful than the hierarchical downward oriented bureaucracy. (Author/MB)

A survey in an unincorporatedurban area compared the major community problems of concern to two groups: (a) randomly selected citizens, and (b) recognized community leaders. The results showed a large divergence of concerns as well as a striking number of citizens who felt themselves to be without spokesmen. (Author/JB)

Having helped to solve the myriad difficulties of opening a ghetto day-care center, the authors found they were accepted gratefully as advocates by the parents committee they had formed--but that the parents wanted to run the center in their own way, an outcome they applaud as healthy and encouraging. (PD)

Depicts Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims as parallels with types now in a representative university system. Speech delivered at the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Seminar, San Fernando Valley State College, Los Angeles, California, June 29-July 3, 1970. (DS)

A capsulized report for fiscal 1969. (EB)

The following are excerpts from "The Report of the President's Task Force on Rural Development," which was released in March. Appointed by President Nixon in September 1969, the Task Force was asked "to review the effectiveness of present rural assistance programs, and make recommendations as to what might be done in the private and…