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Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. Project on the Status and Education of Women. – 1980
This issue of the "On Campus With Women" newsletter includes the following topics: a federal court case decision that student aid constitutes federal assistance, but that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare cannot compel Grove City College to sign a legally defective Title IX compliance form; a Department of Justice move to…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Athletic Coaches, Blacks, Civil Rights
Arbeiter, Solomon; And Others – 1978
Interviews were conducted with a sample of 400 nonstudent, in-transition adults to identify their career information and education needs, their reasons for being in-transition, and their personal and demographic characteristics. In-transition was defined as either undergoing or anticipating job or career changes. Over forty million Americans (36%…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Blacks, Career Change
Download full textCommission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1977
This report evaluates the status of civil rights oversight and policymaking by the White House and Office of Management on Budget (OMB) during the Nixon-Ford administrations, from 1972 to 1976. The report documents the activities of the White House, OMB, the Federal Regional Councils, and the Federal Executive Boards. Housing, school…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Affirmative Action, American Indians, Asian Americans
North Carolina Community Coll. System, Raleigh. – 1992
In 1992, the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges adopted a new policy to demonstrate its commitment to include women and minorities in administrative roles. A task force was formed to make recommendations, outlined in this document, for implementing the new policy within the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS). Included in…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrators, Advisory Committees, Community Colleges
Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, Olympia. – 2001
The third biennial outcome evaluation of the state of Washington's workforce development system analyzed the results of nine of the state's largest workforce development programs plus employer-provided training for participants who left programs from July 1, 1997 to June 30, 1998. For reporting results, the nine programs were grouped into three…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes, Employment
King, Jacqueline E. – 1999
This report describes how students from the major racial/ethnic groups and of different genders pay for college, identifying background characteristics that influence how students finance their education. Data for the study comes from the 1995-96 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:96), conducted by the U.S. Department of Education.…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Asian American Students, Black Students, College Bound Students
Hudson, Larry; McCloud, Rebekah; Buhler, Teresa; Cramer, Stephen; Greer, Linda; Paugh, Robert – 1998
A variety of educational practices are used to support adult learners (who are part-time learners and full-time workers as teachers or trainers) in fully World Wide Web-delivered college courses at the University of Central Florida. Use of the Web as the sole means of delivery offers some challenges for learner support, especially for adults,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Andragogy, College Programs
Walker, Karen – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2004
The research that has been conducted on single-sex schools and classes, has for the most part, been done in the private school and college realm, primarily because very few public schools established single-sex programs. One of the consistent findings has been that with so much emphasis having been placed on the development of girls, that boys are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, Time on Task, Homework
Burr, Marjorie – 1992
In June 1992, Dona Ana Branch Community College (DABCC) in Las Cruces, New Mexico, initiated a self-study to identify changes needed for fuller participation by minorities and women and to establish goals for student, faculty, and staff diversity. The self-study focused on college and program enrollments by gender and ethnicity; recruitment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Affirmative Action, College Attendance
Suter, Larry E., Ed. – 1992
This report presents a new synthesis of statistical indicators and research findings on the quality of science and mathematics education in the United States. In more detail than any other report, it addresses the progress made toward the U.S. national goal of ranking first in the world in mathematics and science by the year 2000. It draws on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Science, Curriculum, Educational Research
Cusick, Theresa; Wolfe, Leslie R. – 1985
This paper presents an analysis of the sex equity provisions of Public Law 98-524, the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. It is intended to assist parents, students, educators, and activists to ensure that the provisions of the Act are fully implemented throughout the country. The two major purposes of the new vocational education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights Legislation, Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
Blakely, Edward J.; And Others – 1983
Eleven papers on rural economic development cover challenges and opportunities; employment trends affecting nonmetropolitan areas; status of nonmetropolitan women and minorities; case studies of Vermont, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and California; western urban and regional development; economic development in small cities; and rural policy…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Census Figures, College Role, Economic Change
Wichowski, Chester; McMahon, Gordon – 1980
Findings are reported from a survey of state- and territorial-level supervisors of trade and industrial education to rate trends and issues in trade and industrial education. (A trend was defined as a course of events or action that is present and likely to continue in the future. An issue was defined as a difference of opinion, dispute, or…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Career Education, Career Guidance
Hammond, D. Rosalind, Ed; Garcia, Jesus, Ed. – 1985
Resources to help K-12 social studies teachers lessen the problem of prejudice in the classroom are provided in this teaching guide. A rationale for prejudice reduction is presented. An overview of prejudice research is then provided. Most of this research indicates that prejudice is quite prevalent in society but that under certain conditions it…
Descriptors: Activism, Age Discrimination, American Indians, Attitude Change
Holmstrom, Engin Inel; And Others – 1976
In a study that had as its object to look at recent changes in the potential pool of health manpower, the focus was on 1974 college freshmen who declared their intention of going into a career in a health field. Data came from the student files of the American Council on Education's Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The report has three…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Black Students, Career Choice, Cohort Analysis
