This report on the Federal College Work-Study (CWS) Program is based on data obtained from students holding CWS jobs, employers hiring students under the program, financial aid personnel administering the program at the institutional level, and officials implementing the program at the regional and national levels. The objectives of the study were…

The production of qualified manpower via a work-study arrangement that may take up to 12 years provides higher rates of return to society than full-time university courses. (Author/HS)

Federal Student Aid's core mission is to ensure that all eligible Americans benefit from federal financial assistance--grants, loans and work-study programs--for education beyond high school. The programs administered comprise the nation's largest source of student aid: during the 2004-05 school year alone, approximately $74 billion in new aid was…

Discussed is the Career Opportunities Program (COP), a nationwide work-study training model designed to improve the educational opportunities of children from the low-income families by employing community residents as teacher aides while preparing for teacher certification. (NQ)

Changing U.S. demographics and family composition are challenging social work education programs to reposition and reconsider how to prepare students for practice in the field of geriatrics. Implications for future social service and health care needs include ongoing training and education of students with competencies in serving geriatric…

Senator Muskie discusses the problems of educational financing and proposes some Federal programs to ease the situation. (AN)

Americans must devise ways to achieve some better educational goal in which each student's maximal development is reached and no one is excluded from getting a higher education. (IR)

Students at Warren Wilson College, North Carolina, work 15 hours a week at an on-campus job for room and board, cutting the cost of education for both the students and the school. Various characteristics and advantages of the mandatory work program, in operation since 1894, are described. (JT)

INFORMATION IN NARRATIVE FORM ABOUT SCHOLARSHIPS, LOANS, WORK-STUDY PROGRAMS, GRANTS-IN-AID, AND SOURCES OF FURTHER INFORMATION IS GIVEN FOR BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN UTAH, DIXIE COLLEGE, LDS BUSINESS COLLEGE, SNOW COLLEGE, STEVENS HENAGER, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, UTAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE AT PROVO, UTAH…

The "CURA Reporter" is published quarterly to provide information about CURA an all-University applied research and technical assistance center at the University of Minnesota that connects faculty and students with community organizations and public institutions working on significant public policy issues in Minnesota. Items in this…

Off-campus work-learning programs have developed because of a demand by students and the education community for a more relevant postsecondary education experience. The purpose of this guide is to provide information, ideas, and suggestions to enable the financial aid officer to better meet the demands of an off-campus College Work-Study Program…

During 1972-73 the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency had to deal with the problems of both the victims of the 1972 flood in Pennsylvania and the returning veterans. The report covers three state programs. (1) The State Scholarship Program made 105,501 awards at $62,759,544. There were 30,701 recipients who were 1972 high school…

Chico State College views and is approaching the problem of improving equal access to higher education as if it were a three-legged stool, each leg being required to be fully functional if the stool is to be serviceable. The first leg necessary is a strong Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) that recruits students, the majority of whom do not…

In December 1973 the Higher Education Panel conducted a survey of its 646 member institutions regarding their experiences in the fall of 1973 with the Office of Education student assistance programs. The data from responding institutions (515) were weighted statistically to develop population estimates of the number and type of students nationwide…