Southwest Regional Center for Community Education Development Papers

The Southwest Regional Center for Community Education Development (SRCCED) Papers include correspondence, grant proposals and reports, program descriptions, published papers, and printed matter. Although the collection dates from 1971 to 1988, the majority of the collection documents community education programs funded by Charles Stewart Mott Foundation grants between 1978 and 1984.

The correspondence consists primarily of letters to Dr. John Walker regarding his publications and information on community education programs and grant administration. Of particular interest is a letter from the Mott Foundation to Community Education Grantees (1981 October 28) asking for revisions of 1982-1983 budget requests in order to reduce funding below our previously anticipated levels.

The Grant and Subgrant folders contain administrative correspondence, draft and finished proposals, biannual and annual progress reports, newsletters, and letters of support. All of these grants were funded by the Mott Foundation and the grant numbers cited are those assigned by the Foundation. The Requests for Proposals are essentially instructions for submitting proposals to the Mott Foundation.

The Amphitheatre Community School Program file contains reports and newsletters describing the Tucson-based program. The Center for American Indian Community Education Annual Report documents the work of the center established at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque with funding from the Mott Foundation (see also subgrants 78-563, 79-250, 80-001). The Adopt-A-School Project file contains articles and papers regarding the Tucson Unified School District program. The Phoenix Parks and Recreation Community Education Workshop file contains workshop notes and a booklet that includes the program schedule, article reprints, and general information on community education.

The Thomas W. Mayhew file contains a vita (1973) and other biographical information on the former SRCCED director. The Top Community Education Training Concerns file includes a questionnaire developed to document those concerns and a paper by John Walker describing the development of the questionnaire. Smoke Signals is a newsletter published by SRCCED in cooperation with the Arizona Community Education Association and the Arizona Department of Education. Other issues of the newsletter are included as appendices to grant proposals in this collection. Miscellaneous Reports/Essays include a number of papers on community education by John Walker, Jack D. Minzey, Ernest O. Melby, and others.