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Dunning, Bruce B. – 1976
In 1974, vouchers for institutional vocational training were available in the Work Incentive Program (WIN) in Portland, Oregon, from April until the end of September. Voucher recipients were allowed up to six weeks in which to decide about a training occupation, locate an appropriate school, and make arrangements for enrollment. Relationships…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Ancillary Services, Career Choice, Decision Making
Edmundson, Lorna Duphiney, Ed.; Seaman, Eleanor Ekblade, Ed. – 1981
This report presents the proceedings of a conference on career opportunities for women in mathematics and the sciences. In keynote remarks, Eloise Clark discusses how the recently passed National Science Foundation Authorization Bill for 1981 provides for the participation of women, minorities, and the handicapped in science, and outlines some of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Career Choice, Career Planning, Employed Women
Joyner, Randy L., Ed. – 1996
This proceedings contains six papers selected by a review committee composed of teacher educators from North Carolina. The following papers are included: "Status of Ethics Instruction in Business Classrooms in North Carolina" (Vivian Arnold); "Middle School Students' Perceptions of Family and Consumer Sciences Teaching as a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Cultural Awareness
Ashiya Univ., Hyogo (Japan). – 1988
This conference report contains the following papers: "Keynote Address" (Fukuyama); "Predictions Regarding the Nature and Significance of Vocational Guidance during the 21st Century in the United States" (Hoyt); "The Changing Workforce and Vocational Guidance" (Inaba); "The 6th International Conference on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Guidance
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1977
This proceedings for a conference on options for women within the community college setting includes the texts of the keynote address and six workshop presentations, a workshop summary sample, a copy of the conference evaluation instrument and evaluation results, the agenda, and a list of conference participants. In the keynote address, entitled…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Career Planning, Community Colleges
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American Vocational Education Research Association. – 1994
The following papers are included: "Emerging Themes in Youth Apprenticeship Programs" (Evanciew); "Improving the U.S. System of School-to Work Transition for Youth and Young Adults" (Stone); "Recent National Studies and Reports on Education and Economic Reform" (Ellibee); "Improving Employment Readiness of Urban…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes, Educational Innovation
Jonkoping Univ. (Sweden). – 1990
This volume contains the 30 formal papers that were accepted for the European and Third World Gender and Science and Technology (GASAT) Conference. The theme of the conference was "Science and Technology, A Future for All?" The papers are presented in two parts and organized into four frames. Part one contains papers, reporting empirical…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Developing Nations
Educational Improvement Center-Central, Princeton, NJ. – 1982
The 10 papers in this report, selected from a series of 4 workshops, concern the planning of career and vocational education programs. The lead paper, by Corine Radice, gives the reader a perspective of a person working in a public high school trying to find help for students planning career decisions. The lead paper is followed by another on the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Decision Making
Nystrom, Dennis; And Others
Selected technological and research areas that may affect emerging careers and work expectations were discussed in the five seminar presentations contained in this proceedings. In the introductory section, Dennis Nystrom outlines the goals of the conference and suggests possible implications. Sar Levitan, in the keynote address, examines the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Computers, Conference Reports, Economic Factors
Hauser, Philip M. – 1975
In the increasingly troubled national and international outlook--social, economic, and political--which calls for more not less knowledge and more and better professional and management skills, the deterioration of higher education in this nation can only lead to the exacerbation of chronic and acute problems and adversely affect our international…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Exploration
Green, Diana M., Ed. – 1982
Institutional research that focuses on professional development is addressed in 35 papers from the 1982 meeting of the North East Association for Institutional Research. Titles and authors include the following: "Modeling College Student Adjustment and Retention for the Individual Institution" (Norman D. Aitken); "The Development…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Career Choice, College Faculty, College Students
Flowers, Jim, Comp. – 1995
The proceedings includes the following: "Evaluation of the Leadership Development of Oklahoma Agricultural Leadership Program Graduates" (Lee-Cooper, Weeks); "Model for Undergraduate Academic Programs in Agricultural Communications" (Terry, Jr. et al.); "Competencies Needed for Graduates of Agricultural Communications Programs" (Terry,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Cooperative Education
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Cujba, Andrei, Ed.; Westfried, Stefan, Ed. – Revista de Pedagogie, 1997
These proceedings consist of 62 presentations (21 written in French, 19 in English, 21 in Romanian, 1 in Spanish). The foreword appears in French, English, and Romanian. Papers written in English include the following:"Vocational Guidance and Change of Career: The New Demands" (Graciela Canessa); "Intervention Strategies. Youth…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Choice, Career Development
Office of Personnel Management, Washington, DC. – 1990
This document summarizes the discussions held at a conference of public sector executives and human resource managers designed to address the problems of attracting and keeping good workers in public service. Presentations made by the governor of Georgia, federal officials, educators, and regional representatives in three plenary sessions…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Choice, City Government, Employment Opportunities
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, DC. – 1987
In August 1987, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) sponsored a Wingspread Conference on the problem of recruitment and retention of minority students into teaching. Conference invitees were asked to comment on a draft of an AACTE policy paper suggesting legislative strategies to recruit more minorities into the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Career Choice, Change Strategies, Community Colleges
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