The Meadows Principal Improvement Program has two functional components and a research component. The functional components are designed to help improve the role of school principals in Texas. There is a preservice component to prepare new principals in instructional leadership and an inservice component to assist practicing principals in…

Implemented by personnel in the Department of Educational Management at New Mexico State University, this program trained 32 American Indian teachers to become elementary school principals during 5 1-year cycles. Program candidates held bachelor's degrees from accredited universities, had taught 3 years at the elementary level, and demonstrated…

The California Association of Work Experience Educators (CAWEE) Career Intern Program, funded by a federal grant, sought to demonstrate that experience-based career education was a viable and needed alternative to existing learning experiences. Selecting three schools from three districts in the greater Los Angeles area, the program maintained a…

Programs that link education and work and implications of the 1980 Higher Education Act for the expansion of work-learning opportunities are considered in this bulletin. Considerations for designing and operating a program combining academic learning with work experience is discussed by Yolaine Armand of the College for Human Services in New York…

Through Medicaid, the Health Maintenance Organization Act (HMO), and Prepaid Health Programs (PHP) approaches were established whereby the government can help alleviate the medical problems of the needy. A program to educate and train students in California in the philosophy, administration, and development of PHP was developed in response to…

The problem of productivity and its impact on manufacturing engineering is the main focus of a program designed to develop a university-industry relationship that will provide professional training to students and input into the manufacturing industry. The current status of existing university-industry interaction at the foreign and domestic…

The final report on a program to encourage industry-university interaction in the materials processing industries presents the findings of various proposed activities, establishes some conclusions, and provides suggestions and recommendations for extending the task to the actual design and conduct of the project. The background in which the…

Eight graduate students participated in a year-long institute designed to train media specialists in instructional technology. Each participant constructed an individualized personal experience program (PEP) consisting of an internship in public school, course-work, and miscellaneous learning activities devoted to developing skills, relevant to…

The Technical Communication Program which began in 1971 at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Rhetoric involves an applied approach to communication. Differentiating this undergraduate program from others in communication is the fact that its approach to communication skills training involves both writing and speaking, as well as…

Describes the environmental programs that evolved out of the school of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Discusses the organization of the school, the teaching approaches, research activities, the internship program, enrollment, and placement for students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. (TW)

Project Work/Learn at Birmingham Southern College, an attempt to build two-way college/community bridges, is described. Two-way requirements for building college/community bridges include: clear and distinct purposes for persons and institutions, mutual utilization of resources, two-way activity, and two-way management. (MLW)

Problems encountered in a psychiatry clerkship when the medical student identifies in various ways with his psychiatric patients are described. The patterns of this identification process and the effects on student-patient interaction are included. The students were enrolled at the University of Illinois School of Medicine. (Author/JMD)

Colleges can use institutionally-sponsored internships, in-house opportunities to participate in the daily activities of leadership, to let employees learn the culture of leadership and interact with staff currently in such positions. Administrative internships at Pennsylvania State University, Eastern Illinois University, and Arizona State…

Describes an internship program at a two-year college in which graduate students from 13 participating area graduate programs teach in the two-year college and receive training addressing pedagogical issues unique to community colleges, thus being immersed in a world of higher education that differs greatly from the research universities within…

A unique community college program was established as a joint endeavor by George Mason University and the Virginia Community College System. Administered by the University's National Center for Community College Education, the program stresses doctoral study in the candidate's area of expertise. Specifically designed for community college…