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Download full textBlackhawk Technical Coll., Janesville, WI. – 1996
This document, which is designed for practitioners involved in the vocational education/rehabilitation of incarcerated adults, contains materials to facilitate replication of the Rock County Education and Criminal Additions Program (RECAP), a comprehensive, integrated training/rehabilitation program that was developed and implemented through the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Advisory Committees
Bilson, Barbara, Ed.; Woodruff, Bert, Ed. – Inside English, 1985
Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues of volume 12 include the following…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College English, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction
Ford Foundation, New York, NY. – 1981
A Ford Foundation program funded individual institutional programs focusing on higher education access and success for the inner-city poor, including remediation of basic skills, academic counseling and diagnosis of learning problems, and information services to help individuals make program choices. Three institutional programs are reported. In…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Basic Skills
Barshis, Don – 1979
The Loop College's Individual Needs (IN) Program is a total support service and academic program for high-risk students during their first semesters at the college. This descriptive report begins by describing IN's personnel requirements and the duties of the program director, the program advisor, the senior tutor/Developmental Learning Manager…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Basic Skills, College Programs, Community Colleges
Anderson, Jean E. – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. During the project, staff were hired, equipment was ordered and installed, literacy task analyses were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Burkhart, Jennifer; Sullivan, Mark – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of two modules for the mathematics (computation) classes of the program. The first…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Burkhart, Jennifer – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of three modules for the problem-solving and computer learning systems classes of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Burkhart, Jennifer; Sullivan, Mark – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of two modules for the reading and language instruction classes of the program.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical Coll., Orangeburg, SC. – 1997
During the Learning for Life Initiative, a technical college and an adult education center partnered with two area businesses to develop and deliver job-specific workplace literacy and basic skills training to employees. Major activities of the initiative included the following: comprehensive staff development program for all project instructors,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Basic Skills, Cognitive Style
Fleming, Delryn R., Ed. – 1983
Drawn from a conference that focused on the present state and future direction of college reading and learning skills instruction, the articles in this collection are arranged into three categories: reviews, investigations and evaluations, and prescriptions and descriptions. Among the topics discussed in the 19 articles are the following: (1) the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, Computer Software, Content Area Reading
Knoell, Dorothy M.; And Others – 1979
The conference papers included in this collection address issues of concern to literacy development in the community college. "Functional Literacy and Persistence in the Community College," by Dorothy M. Knoell, raises questions about student persistence in the absence of requisite skills. "Training Perspective on Functional…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Allied Health Occupations Education, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education
Barwuah, Adjei; Green, Muriel; Lawson, Liz – FEDA Report, 1997
This document examines three studies that explored additional support, retention, and guidance in England's urban colleges. The foreword and summary discuss the mission, focus, and results of each study. "Funding and Tracking Additional Support in Basic Skills and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)" (Liz Lawson, Philida…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Case Studies, Check Lists, Counseling Services
Burkhart, Jennifer; Sullivan, Mark – 1993
The BUILD Program (Businesses United to Increase Literacy Development) was conducted from June 1991 through December 1992 as a cooperative workplace literacy program joining Arapahoe Community College and four companies in Littleton, Colorado. This document consists of two modules for the communication skills classes of the program. The first…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Campion, William J. – 1993
The planning and evaluation process at Central Florida Community College (CFCC) is based on the identification of demonstrable outcomes measures, referred to as indicators of excellence (IE's). The indicators were developed during a 4-year long, institution-wide effort in which every employee had the opportunity to comment on proposed indicators.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Basic Skills, Budgets, College Planning
Lane Community Coll., Eugene, OR. – 1997
This document, which is intended for workplace trainers, contains materials for conducting five workplace mathematics courses that were developed through the Workplace Training Project, a partnership involving Lane Community College in Oregon and five area businesses. The five courses, which were developed by project staff based on the business…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Algebra, Arithmetic
