Public service employment is a cost-effective fiscal remedy in terms of jobs created within the first 12 months. Its effectiveness is enhanced if participants come from welfare or unemployment compensation programs. Other positive attributes are low inflationary impact and ability to be targeted to areas or groups. (SK)

Describes the efforts of St. Paul's School in Concord (New Hampshire) to join with local agencies and public schools to provide students with practical experiences and advanced programs. For its 125th anniversary, St. Paul's sponsored a series of seminar discussions on school effectiveness that included a national group of scholars. (WD)

Using public service time on local radio stations allows a community college to inform its constituents about college programs, services, activities, and personnel. (Author/MLF)

General university goals, especially that of public service, presumably legitimize extension's function. Various reasons are examined to determine why extension units are not accorded greater hierarchical status and fiscal support. Several implications for policy strategy are identified. (Author/BP)

Presents three papers addressing the topic of using youth volunteers in public libraries: "Teen Corps Reaches Out with Pride" (Yvonne K. Coleman); "Whose Teen Advisory Board is this, Anyway?" (Leila J. Sprince); and "It All Started in the Summer..." (Liz Baldwin). (AEF)

Presents a conceptual framework for studying authenticity in organizational leadership, highlighting the place of self, authenticity's centrality to effective leadership, organizations' need for authentic learning, and ways governance can facilitate or impede authenticity. This leadership praxis links leadership theory, practice, and ethics;…

Explores "service" as a continuum from charity to social change, and describes implications for service-learning in higher education. Based on a review of alternative theories, a student survey (n=83), and interviews with five practitioners, argues that there exist related but distinct community service models (charity, project, social change),…

Asserting the importance of universities reengaging with their communities, details how the University of Wisconsin-Extension built on the core principles presented in Boyer's "Scholarship Reconsidered" (1990) and Glassick, Huber, and Maeroff's "Scholarship Assessed" (1997) to develop a robust definition of the scholarship of…

Describes the pitfalls that schools may encounter in requiring community service for high school graduation. In planning service-learning programs, schools should ask "In service of what?" Schools should first define their ideological, political, and social goals; provide teacher training, and incorporate the program into the curriculum. (LMI)

Alumni clubs and the alumni administrators on campus who help organize them have found that community work provides the added purpose that some groups have traditionally lacked. A community service goal can galvanize a diverse group, sustain loyalty, and extend the reach and reputation of even the most prominent institution. (MLW)

Some basic assessment/evaluation issues which must be considered when beginning any health/fitness program are identified, and assessment's role in fitness program development is discussed. A description is included of the development of a total wellness program designed to meet criteria for law enforcement certification of the Greensboro (NC)…

This case study examines seven local, state, and federal agencies in Oregon that have track records of success in moving women into management positions. Information from managers is used to define action steps for agencies concerned about affirmative action. (JOW)

Explores issues regarding the appropriate role for library/information science faculty in the American Library Association. The discussion covers the nature of the academic enterprise and the role of professional schools within it, and the nature of librarianship and the role of the American Library Association within it. (three references)…

For college presidents, concerns about job security reduce freedom to participate in public life. Many presidents seek a low profile. The key to liberating a president to serve society as a public intellectual is for the governing board to explicitly endorse that role. This public role is an appropriate matter for discussion during the…

Provides a detailed investigation of retention and exit patterns in the federal civil service. Discusses federal pay and turnover, changes in the federal workforce, and the impact of retention problems on the quality of federal workers and on affirmative action. (JOW)