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Durnovo, Maya – 1988
A study was conducted to examine the characteristics of women administrators in Texas public community colleges. Specifically, the study examined what positions women administrators occupied at what institutions; their educational, professional, and personal background; career mobility issues; the significance of mentoring; the differences among…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrators, Career Development
Park, Theresa – 1975
The report presents a computer model for forecasting occupational shortages into the near future based on occupational data reported monthly by the Texas Employment Commission for the period January 1970 to July 1975 and on job openings listed in classified want ads from September 1974 to July 1975. The report describes the methodology of the…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Analysis, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Norquest, Carrol – 1972
Farmers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas saw a rise of wetback labor in the 1930s and 40s. The wetback laborers were Mexicans who had crossed the Rio Grande and were in the United States illegally to work. Carrol Norquest, a farmer in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, employed wetbacks regularly. In this book, Mr. Norquest writes about the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Agriculture, Books, Braceros
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Dept. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1968
Those public school vocational programs which involve the expenditure of Texas state funds are the focus of this report. Demographic, economic, enrollment, and vocational education expenditure data were collected and are presented. Projections based on these data are made through 1975. In addition, 13 problems and specific action recommendations…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Economic Factors, Educational Planning, Educational Problems
Taylor, Eric H.; Barton, Lisa S. – 1994
The Texas Refugee Study was initiated to collect valid and reliable information to better direct refugee policy, improve services to refugees, give service providers information to help them become more competitive in seeking federal and private dollars, and help refugees better understand their own communities. The targeted groups, Vietnamese,…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Demography, Employment Patterns, English
Texas Employment Commission, Austin. – 1975
Training programs are often linked to current demand and are unable to adjust to changing needs rapidly enough to provide an equilibrium in worker supply and demand. To help with planning for future needs, the information contained in this report covers preliminary employment projections to 1980, by industry and by occupation, for the State of…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
Lawson, Leslie O.; King, Christopher T. – 1997
Researchers assembled a database of current and projected information on the following: welfare recipients; other female participants in the labor market; employment, occupational availability, and job openings; and occupational characteristics. The database was used in a multistep process to project the number of women forced to leave welfare…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections
TJCTA Messenger, 1994
Published four times a year by the Texas Junior College Teachers Association (TJCTA), this newsletter discusses events affecting Texas Junior Colleges and their faculty, chronicles the efforts and activities of the TJCTA, and provides a forum for discourse on topics in community college education. Most of the September 1993 issue is devoted to an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Faculty Organizations, Graduate Surveys
Hudson, Heather E.; York, Lynn – 1984
Using data on the growth of information related businesses in Texas in the period from 1971 to 1981, this paper analyzes and interprets the results in the context of demographic changes and educational policy in Texas. To track the number of businesses that fall into the information sector, and to reveal trends in growth and in industry…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Employment Opportunities
Texas State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, Austin. – 1994
The Texas Automated Student and Adult Learner Follow-Up System was developed as part of a larger effort to improve and coordinate the delivery of education and training of a skilled work force. The primary task of the Follow-Up System in Program Year 1993-94 was to obtain outcome information on the former students and participants of the work…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Data Processing, Databases
King, Christopher T.; And Others – 1995
A study assessed the success of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs by examining current approaches, featuring operational and experimentally based measures, all using the individual as the unit observation. The research used Program Year 1990 JTPA termination and associated program participation records in Illinois and Texas. Two…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Career Education, Employment Patterns
Development Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1991
This report provides an overview of vocational training programs and activities for Limited English Proficient (LEP) adults in Texas, with particular emphasis on the Houston and Lubbock. State policy regarding LEP adults is discussed, as are the roles of state agencies in providing services to these individuals. Statistical information concerning…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Role, Employment Patterns, Hispanic Americans
Fiebiger, Leo J. – 1973
This study was conducted to determine the manpower needs of El Paso, Texas, by surveying and interviewing employers in regard to numbers of employees, education and training level preferred, and related employee information. A second purpose was to identity specific kinds of skills needed by EL Paso business and industry. Information was gathered…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employment Patterns, Employment Qualifications, Job Analysis
Schexnayder, Deanna T.; Olson, Jerome A.; Schroeder, Daniel G.; Betsinger, Alicia M.; Sim, Shao-Chee – 1998
Achieving Change for Texans (ACT) was a demonstration program designed to help participants achieve independence from welfare through employment, training, temporary assistance, and support services. The ACT included the following four primary components: Time-Limited and Transitional Benefits (TL); Responsibilities, Employment, and Resources…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs
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Little, Roger D.; Liebhafsky, E. E. – Growth and Change, 1980
Employment shortfall is enumerated differently by the proportionality technique, the exogenous base technique, and the complete shift-share and simple shift-share technique, three methods of analyzing occupational convergence (when labor force group distributions become more similar over time). The methods are applied to 1950-70 teacher employment…
Descriptors: Blacks, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Labor Economics
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