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Download full textComplete College America, 2019
Far too often, today's college students find themselves wandering through their academic experiences, choosing from a dizzying array of majors, courses, and out-of-classroom learning experiences. And while this smorgasbord of options is often portrayed as beneficial to the student experience, more than a decade of research suggests that too many…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Educational Planning, Outcomes of Education, Career Choice
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Direct linkKleinert, Harold L.; Jones, Melissa M.; Sheppard-Jones, Kathleen; Harp, Beverly; Harrison, Elizabeth M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2012
In this article we describe the new opportunities for postsecondary education available to students with intellectual disabilities (ID) through the Higher Education Opportunities Act of 2008. We also identify the importance of these opportunities for students with ID, and key strategies for ensuring that their college experience is an important…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Opportunities, Extracurricular Activities, Career Exploration
Bernard, Rosalie – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2007
The Miami Valley Career Technology Center (MVCTC) uses its Student Ambassador Team to help market career and technical education to other students. The MVCTC Ambassador Team is made up of 34 senior students nominated in their junior year by their career-tech and academic instructors. The students represent a cross section of career/technical…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Leadership Training, Career Exploration, Academic Achievement
Miner, Brenda – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers, 2006
The Area Vo-Tech Center (AVTC) in Russellville, Arkansas, recently hosted its first TechnoCamp to encourage enrollment based on the aptitude and interest level of the students enrolling in the various programs. The center currently offers student enrollment in auto technology, computer engineering, cosmetology, construction technology, drafting…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Student Recruitment, Middle School Students, Technical Education
Di Benedetto, Victoria; Ortiz, Rachel – 1994
Project Opportunity is designed to provide a bridge curriculum for women who choose to enter nontraditional vocational education and training that will furnish marketable skills to low-income women, single parents, displaced homemakers, young pregnant women, and near-homeless women. A total of 45 women were chosen to participate in the 1993-94…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Ancillary School Services, Career Exploration, Community Colleges
Di Benedetto, Victoria; Ortiz, Rachel – 1995
Project Opportunity of the Women in Technology (WIT) program at Texas' El Paso Community College is designed to provide a bridge curriculum for women who choose to enter nontraditional vocational fields that furnishes marketable skills to low-income individuals, single parents, displaced homemakers, young pregnant women, and near-homeless women.…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Ancillary School Services, Career Exploration, Community Colleges
El Paso Community Coll., TX. – 1991
The objective of the Women in Technology (WIT) program for the Texas Higher Education Year 1990-1991 was to increase women's employment in nontraditional technical-vocational occupations and enrollment in nontraditional technical-vocational education and training. WIT provided information on nontraditional careers to the community and provided…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Career Exploration, Counseling, Day Care
