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Gold, Ben K. – 1979
Los Angeles City College (LACC) is one of 15 California community colleges participating in a three-year longitudinal study designed to provide information on vocational education students, and student characteristics in general, as well as information about the efficacy of small sampling and methods most useful for long-term studies. Data in the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Community Colleges, Educational Background, Enrollment Trends
San Mateo Community Coll. District, CA. – 1969
This report describes the 2-year cooperative education demonstration project conducted in three colleges of the San Mateo Junior College District (California). The project, involving all academic disciplines, offers co-op students three plans: (1) alternate class attendance and a full-time job in conjunction with another student on a semester…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Employer Attitudes, Evening Programs, Extended School Day
Brewer, David – Employment and Disability Institute, 2004
If the lives of adults with disabilities are any measure of the impact of decades of special education, there are serious problems that must addressed. The employment rate among adults with disabilities, for instance, remains low. If a group of students choose paid employment as a goal for adult life, would not those same students want their…
Descriptors: Disabilities, High School Students, High School Graduates, Student Employment
San Mateo Community Coll. District, CA. – 1974
This document presents a comprehensive overview of cooperative education programs in the San Mateo Community College District. There are three plans which provide regular work experience related to college studies and career goals. The Alternative Semester pattern allows two students to hold one full-time position by exchanging work and study…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Objectives, Employment Opportunities
Oxnard School District, CA. – 1992
This document describes studies and other evidence supporting year-round education (YRE) in elementary and secondary schools. Included are six newspaper and journal clippings describing the benefits of YRE schools. The document also quotes from test and survey results that indicate that students who are enrolled in YRE programs learn and retain…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Hispanic Americans, Migrant Education
Hood, Lyn – 1990
In 1990, surveys were sent to all 107 California community colleges to gather information on the status of job placement services for students attending the colleges. Survey results, based on a 60% response rate (n=64), included the following: (1) 62% of the colleges indicated that they had documented student job placements in some fashion, with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Documentation
Lomen, Lynn D. – 1974
This document is Part I of the Handbook on Cooperative Education at Los Angeles Valley College (California). It was designed to standardize the procedures and policies that have proven appropriate for this college. For comparative purposes, the author studied the administration of cooperative education programs at four other California community…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Career Education, Community Colleges
California State Student Aid Commission, Sacramento. – 1976
Information on California Colleges and Universities is presented to add to the understanding of postsecondary education and help to plan and to decide more effectively concerning student financial aid programs and policies. A survey was made of students of California state and private community colleges, and colleges and universities. Examined are…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Family Income, Federal Aid, Financial Support
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 2003
Contains articles on such topics as the progress of black student enrollment at highly ranked institutions; academic performance of black athletes at highly ranked universities; racism on official U.S. maps; sharply deteriorating black enrollments at U.S. medical schools; crime on the rise at many black college campuses; the annual black college…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Students
Nelken, Ira – 1978
The Special Secondary Impact Program instituted in 14 California secondary schools provided counseling and part time jobs to migrant students to help them stay in school long enough to graduate. The study examined the program's effect on inter- and intra-state migrant secondary school students. Variables measured migrant enrollment, migrant…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Comparative Analysis, Dropout Prevention, Enrollment
Stampen, Jacob O.; Fenske, Robert H. – 1984
The way public college students finance college was studied, based on student resource and expenditure surveys from four states: Arizona, California, New York, and Wisconsin. Comparisons were made of demographic and academic variables, as well as expenditure patterns of students receiving different kinds of aid. The following four aid recipient…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dependents, Family Income, Grade Point Average
McCuen, John T.; Erickson, Lowell J. – 1979
A survey of 7% of all students attending classes in the Los Angeles Community College District during Fall, 1978, was conducted to determine educational and career goals and interests, levels of college preparation, commuting patterns, employment while attending college, personal or parental income, attitudes toward tuition, marital status,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Child Development Centers, College Preparation, Community Colleges
New Ways to Work, San Francisco, CA. – 2002
This guide provides engagement specialists with information to help them build strong, lasting partnerships with employers and labor partners that translate into life-changing opportunities for the youth of California through the School-to-Career initiative (STC). (Companion guides for associations, labor unions and employers are available…
Descriptors: Career Education, Corporate Support, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
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