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Nisqually Indian Tribe, Olympia, WA. Education Dept. – 1986
Serving Native American adults of Thurston and Pierce communities, the Adult Education Program individualizes instruction and makes full use of tribal community resources to improve educational level and employment opportunities. Major program goals are to increase high school equivalency completion rates, to enhance ability of identified extreme…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, American Indian Education
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1985
California's Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS), which provides services and financial aid to community college students who transfer to public four-year colleges, was evaluated by an intersegmental task force, which offered 12 recommendations to improve EOPS and the transfer process. After outlining EOPS goals, services, and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), College Planning
Coad, Cynthia – 1985
This guide is intended to assist vocational training placement personnel responsible for recruiting, counseling, or providing vocational services to disadvantaged or unemployed clients of a Job Training Partnership Act program. The manual is a compilation of verified vocational educational activities related to job placement and followup…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Check Lists, Competency Based Education
Minnesota State Board for Vocational Education, St. Paul. – 1983
In March 1982, the Minnesota Division of Vocational-Technical Education received requests from State legislators to develop an action plan to address the problems of declining enrollments and resources. In response to this request, a plan was developed whereby area vocational-technical institutes (AVTIs) in the State would (1) promote a process…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Lewin, Marion Ein; And Others – 1987
Trends in minority representation in health professions and efforts to expand opportunity are discussed, and information on minority medical training programs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is provided. During the mid-1960s to mid-1970s, public and private sector programs promoted minority recruitment, admissions, and retention policies for…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, American Indians
South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, Columbia. – 1985
South Carolina's State plan for achieving equity and equal opportunity in public colleges and universities, beginning July 1, 1986, is presented. The purposes of the plan are to provide policies, goals, and strategies for continuing efforts to eliminate racial discrimination in the State's public higher education system, and to provide estimates…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, College Faculty, College Planning
Silva, Santiago – 1982
The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) at Pan American University (PAU) in Edinburg, Texas, which recruits migrant students into higher education and provides quality support services (tutoring, counseling, follow-up, and financial assistance), served 202 freshmen during the 1981-82 academic year. The CAMP recruitment effort visited 34 high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Role, College Students
Ross, Eva – 1982
Designed for use by vocational counselors with parents of junior high students, this handbook includes activities written in English and Spanish covering parental influence in vocational choices. The first of three sections discusses increasing parental involvement in vocational education. Section II begins with advice for implementation of such a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Career Choice, Child Rearing
Kaufman, Juliet, Ed.; And Others – 1982
Findings of an American College Testing Program 1981 survey on college recruitment of adult students are summarized, and 12 articles on adult recruitment are presented. Titles and authors are as follows: "Adult Recruitment Practices: A Report of a National Survey" (Patricia Spratt, Juliet Kaufmann, Lee Noel); "Three Programs for…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Admissions Officers, Adult Students, Ancillary School Services
Utah State Board of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1983
The Utah Commission on Educational Excellence was created by the Utah State Board of Education to recommend improvements in the quality of education and the efficiency of schools. This report begins by summarizing the commission's 27 final recommendations for significant change in the Utah education system. These recommendations look to a system…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Development
Wood, John J. – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this study considers issues of minority access and persistence in Arizona's universities. Themes abstracted from personal interviews with minority students, faculty, and staff and minority and nonminority…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, College Administration, College Faculty
Wood, John J. – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this report describes a study evaluating the effort by Arizona's universities to recruit and graduate minority students. Current outcomes and recent trends are noted along with the general strengths and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
Mageean, Pauline – 1985
This paper looks at the selection of students in Australia for trades-based prevocational or pre-apprenticeship courses. Selections for two types of courses are considered in the paper: (1) pre-apprenticeship courses that focus on a particular trade area and usually lead to credit in only one apprenticeship course; and (2) prevocational courses…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Georgia Univ., Athens. – 1985
This guide is intended to assist teachers organizing and presenting a course in data processing for secondary school students. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following: the philosophy, purpose, and objectives of the course; admissions and recruitment; occupational information; employability skills; tasks addressed in the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Competency Based Education
Rios, Betty Rose D. – 1987
Rural America and its schools (which encompass nearly two-thirds of the 15,600 school districts in the United States) face an incredible array of challenges. Changes in demographic, economic, and social conditions are creating a new rural America which is beset by many problems. Rural poverty does not appear to be diminishing and researchers…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Delivery Systems, Distance Education, Economic Factors
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