Material in this booklet was excerpted from a series of tape-recorded interviews with labor superintendents and supervisors who work directly with student manpower in the 100-year-old, work-learning program at Berea College. The document examines selected areas of supervisory responsibility in a college work-study program. It includes information…

This article draws on a larger study of the dynamics of work and study among adult students in public higher education institutions in South Africa. This study found that over 50% of all students in the higher education system in the country are over 23 years of age, and 80% of them are at undergraduate level. The focus of this particular article…

This study was undertaken to determine whether the grade point averages of students at Santa Ana College (SAC) have been increasing over time, and, with an increasing number of work-experience students, whether the work experience grade distribution has had any effect on the grade distribution of the entire college. Results indicate that SAC's…

This report summarizes results from the Higher Education Services Offices 2001 survey of financial aid received by undergraduates attending Minnesota postsecondary institutions. Undergraduates attending Minnesota postsecondary institutions in fiscal year (fy) 2001 used $1.2 billion in grants, education loans, and earnings from work study jobs to…

The article discusses the results and implications of a 1978 study of work study/work experience programs for regular and handicapped secondary students in British Columbia, Canada. (Author/DSL)

During the year 1973, the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA) conducted a five-phase research program on postsecondary student financial needs and resources in Kentucky. This document deals with phase V of that study. The major objective on phase V is the development of model student assistance programs for Kentucky. KHEAA has…

Presented are guidelines and requirements of vocational education programs for secondary school handicapped students in Colorado. It is explained that the 1968 amendment to the Vocational Act of 1963 requires that each state spend 15% of its basic federal grant for vocational training for the handicapped. Work Experience and Study (WES) programs…

Transitional situations, such as those experienced by work study students, may create cognitive difficulties by requiring people to simultaneously use both a learning and a use logic. To examine this phenomenon, a problem solving task (electrical schemata of a washing machine) was administered to 43 full time students and 51 work study students…

In an investigation of the impact of prevocational training on employment status, two groups (N=49 and 59) of educable retarded former pupils in Oregon work experience programs were interviewed. Results indicated that the Ss' unemployment rates (20 percent and 46 percent were comparable to an adjusted rate for 16- to 21-year-old members of the…

To determine whether students who indicated success on the job evaluated the overall Cooperative Education Program at Los Angeles Valley College differently from those students who did not indicate job success, data were collected from 249 students who had completed the program (41 percent female and 59 percent male). Questionnaires were answered…

The 2003 Minnesota Legislature directed the Higher Education Services Office to evaluate and report monthly on state financial aid expenditures by type to date and unexpended balances. This is the 15th and final monthly report with Fiscal Year 2004 data. It contains information through September 30, 2004. This report contains data on: (1) the…

A comparative study was made of 18 mentally retarded, multiply handicapped high school students who attended a work study program and 12 students who were traditionally serviced in the academic program. (CL)

The one most important ingredient that should be included in the training of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) students who will be entering business and industry is practical experience prior to graduation, a conclusion resulting from two surveys. The first survey was sent to recent I/O graduates newly employed in industry, and asked for an…

Described is a Title III work study model to provide a 4-year vocational training program for approximately 40 handicapped junior and senior high school students in Westport, Connecticut. Program activities (such as conferences with employers) and the needed professional personnel (such as a school psychologist) are outlined for each of the…

A study of early postenrollment wage determinants of White young men in the 1966 to 1971 period is described. The focus is on student labor force status as a determinant of postenrollment wage rates. Results suggest that work while enrolled may mitigate transition problems to full-time work after enrollment. (Author/MLW)