The California State University (CSU) Project Rebound is a re-entry program that provides educational, social, financial, and case management to formerly incarcerated college students with the goal of helping them become successful post-incarceration and post-graduation. This exploratory study examines successful career-building strategies…

This study examines cocurricular learning support in California higher education and the implications for student success. The research incorporates two aspects, including a four-year university component and a community college component. The first component summarizes data for a one-year period for graduates of California State University,…

The authors evaluated a health careers program in a U.S. urban public high school. After small subgroups of the original sample were removed, participants included 162 Asian American and Pacific Islander students. Analyses of covariance indicated that, compared with the comparison group, the treatment group reported significantly higher levels of…

Robert Chope is a professor of counseling at San Francisco State University, where he coordinates the Career Counseling Program. He is also the founder of the Career and Personal Development Institute in San Francisco, a practice that he has had for more than 25 years. Dr. Chope received his PhD from the University of Minnesota, Department of…

California Career Centers are inschool information centers offering a variety of information and guidance which can be used efficiently and constructively by career guidance personnel as an educational tool to facilitate the career development of students. This study represents an effort to assist guidance personnel to implement, maintain, and…

An experimental project was conducted between July 1972 and August 1973 to offer adult basic education to high seniority, unskilled employees laid off because of the seasonal nature of their jobs in the fruit and vegetable canning industry in northern California. The project's purpose was to demonstrate that layoff time training (LOTT) would be…