Contends that the National Endowment for the Humanities is biased against scholarship by young persons on experimental literature. (DD)

This guide is the final in a series of eleven generated in 1978 as the result of workshops that focused on peer training, a different approach to teaching. The workshops provided the opportunity for members of eleven identified role groups to work together with peers to examine the relationship between their specific role group and community…

An unusual poverty immersion program that teaches what can't be taught in a classroom. (Editor)

Social agencies and community information centers contact hundreds of adolescents, and adults, who are potential candidates for higher education. Although responsible for helping clients with educational planning, the counselors at these agencies usually lack access to the regular workshops and information resources that are available to high…

Issues uncovered in a 3-year action-research project that placed social workers and graduate students in community police departments were selection of staff and students, attitudes about the law, confidentiality, motivating the reluctant client, and sensitivity to police-social worker perceptions of each other. (JT)

This curriculum guide provides an introduction to Management Information Systems (MIS) concepts and techniques for students preparing to develop MISs in professional settings, and to assist in MIS evaluation. According to the guide, students are exposed to concepts drawn from systems theory, information theory, management theory, data base…

The report discusses the status of higher education for disadvantaged students in California. The programs in operation at public and private colleges and universities are geared toward increasing the accessibility of higher education to students from disadvantaged circumstances. Noted are special actions in recruitment, financial assistance and…

This document lists the private and governmental agencies active in the conduct of international exchange-of-persons programs. Contact persons, their title, and phone number are provided for each agency while the purpose of each is briefly described. (MJM)

Offered by the City University of New York, SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge) is an educational opportunity program concerned with high school graduates from poverty-area neighborhoods who would not have been admitted to college on the basis of their grades, but who have potential for college in terms of basic ability. A…

The report describes a Marist College (New York) program which places students to work with a variety of local nonprofit community agencies. In return for their work in the community, program participants who demonstrate financial need receive up to $500 per semester in tuition credit (applied toward reduction of the students' education loan…

Approximately 1,100 students from about 50 colleges and universities worked in more than 50 New York City agencies for the summer of 1966 in a million dollar program funded by the College Work-Study Program of the Office of Education and by the City, and administered largely by students. The Urban Corps had 3 purposes: to get needed work done; to…

This paper discusses an undergraduate degree program in applied social sciences which is designed to prepare personnel for a broad range of entry-level human services functions in community agency settings. In a sense it is an undergraduate program in guidance and counseling and teaches skills which can be used to help people become more…

An experimental health-care delivery and teaching model, the health department-medical school affiliation, is described. Its conceptual basis and the affiliation agreement are reviewed and its impact is likened to that of the medical school-teaching hospital affiliation. The affiliation between the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department and…

This report describes a 2-year project at Westmont College, California, which established a Community Service Program with the purposes of decreasing student debt and increasing student participation in community organizations. Eligible students worked 8-10 hours per week for a qualified community agency and received credit towards tuition for the…

This directory is to enable users to locate quickly and easily organizations and individuals who control national and regional data on blacks in higher education. The tables of contents list groups alphabetically and by subject. Subject headings include: access, distribution, statistical characteristics, employment, persistence, policy studies,…