The author predicts that private institutions of higher learning, both within cities and in peripheral areas, will be called upon increasingly to help provide for growing and varying continuing education needs. He envisions the rise by 1980 of a new institutional form, the College of Continuing Education, which will combine continuing education…

Joseph C. Paige is the Dean of Community Education and Director of Cooperative Extension Service of the only urban Land-Grant College, Federal City College, in Washington, D.C. Here he is interviewed about 4-H with children of poor ethnic groups in the District of Columbia. (NL)

The author describes the problems facing an extension agent in selecting and utilizing indigenous paraprofessionals to teach extension programs in their neighborhoods. She suggests that extension professionals look on the requirement for them to supervise paraprofessionals as a challenge to extend and improve extension programs. (MF)

While the extension concept is historically linked to rural populations through the original land grant college movement, the population requiring assistance has now broadened and shifted to an essentially urban one. Several alternative functions for extension programs in urban areas are outlined which will require a new resource and clientele…

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS ON THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OUTLINED PRINCIPAL ISSUES AND CURRENT PROJECTS OF THE DIVISION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY EXTENSION ASSOCIATION. ADULT EDUCATION WAS DISCUSSED, AS RELATED TO IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS UNDER TITLE 1 OF THE HIGHER…

Two counties in Ohio are used as models for Extension organizations striving to reach and serve urban clientele. (DS)

A description and evaluation of the Federal City College (the first Urban Land Grant institution in the nation) higher education program offered in association with a group of Washington, D.C., penal institutions located in Lorton, Virginia. This Lorton Project has been adopted as a National Model by the Department of Health, Education, and…

Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 has demonstrated that institutions of higher learning can make an important contribution to the solution of community problems through community service projects. But there are limitations, the greatest of which are lack of adequate program funds and mounting program needs, particularly for programs…

This survey examined urban involvement of colleges and universities across the United States. A questionnaire was sent to 519 Higher Education panel member institutions, a 20% sample of the relevant population. Usable returns were received from 83.6% of the sample. Results indicated colleges and universities across the U.S. have been fairly active…

Forms used for data collection in the Cornell-OEO Project fall into the categories of recruitment and selection, family assistant training, in-service training, supervisory records of family assistants, service-family contacts and visits, reports on visits to Cornell-OEO Project, work with groups outside the project, and analysis forms.…

Special Urban Issue. Results of questionnaire sent to Extension administrators at land-grant universities on nature, status, and models of urban-focused university extension programs. (DS)

Describes the conceptualization and development of a pilot urban extension program designed to enhance community self-help efforts while assisting the university in its educational, research, and service functions. Originally funded under Title I of the Higher Education Act, it still functions through the Ohio State University Department of…

A study was conducted to determine what competencies Extension employees working in urban areas of Ohio perceived as most necessary. Information on the demographic characteristics of urban Extension employees in the state was also gathered. Data were obtained via a two-part questionnaire mailed to the 46 Extension employees working in the urban…

THE AUTHOR DEALS WITH THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN EDUCATING STUDENTS TO BE CITIZENS AND LEADERS IN OUR URBANIZED SOCIETY. HE SEES URBANIZATION AS BEING DIFFERENT FROM, THOUGH RELATED TO, INDUSTRIALIZATION, AND HE SEES DISTINCT DIFFERENCES IN THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESPONSES NEEDED TO DEAL WITH THEM. WHILE INDUSTRIALIZATION, THE MAIN FOCUS OF…

The paper reviews Bowling Green State University's participation in community service activities particularly as it applies to the speech communications departments. Emphasis is placed on the traditional view of community service, the objective of community service, the Bowling Green State University Chicano Program, speech education for community…