This national guide presents credit recommendations and course descriptions for education officials to consider when granting credit to students for learning acquired in noncollegiate organizations. The courses listed in the guide represent only a small sample of the educational programs conducted by the participating organizations. A section on…

Information is presented on 141 public and private employers based on a survey of over 1,000 major employers in 14 counties of Northeastern New York State. This publication is designed to increase awareness and utilization of tuition assistance provided by these employers and can be used by the staff of colleges and other educational institutions…

This directory describes the various types of programs offered by organizations and educational institutions which are members of the Association for World Education. Focusing on all forms of postsecondary educational organizations, membership consists of adult education centers, colleges, units of large university research centers, and other…

Colleges offering a curriculum in undergraduate elementary school physical education programs are listed in this directory. Information includes number of enrollments, courses and credit hours, and names of the department personnel. (JD)

The directory contains information on approximately 150 materials designed for developing professional supervisory competencies in special education through independent study or small group activity. Entries are listed alphabetically according to 24 critical competencies within the following areas: developing curriculum, developing learning…

Names and subject areas are listed for 345 individuals who in the last ten years (by spring 1977) had completed the doctoral dissertation grant program through which the Office of Research and Development provides financial assistance for research on employment and training. The listing for each individual includes the following information…

This inventory provides information about development communication training programs for students from developing countries in Master's or Ph.D. programs or short-term non-degree training. A demand is anticipated for training specialists in different sectors--agriculture, education, health, nutrition, and population--in the use of communication…

Ways now exist for medical laboratory workers to advance up the educational career ladder, gaining credit for prior training and/or experience. A total of 369 Certified Medical Laboratory Assistant Schools, colleges with Associate Degree Medical Laboratory Technicians programs, schools of Medical Technology, and colleges with baccalaureate Medical…

The directory provides a comprehensive list of programs for training physician support personnel and reflects increasing interest in efforts to train new types of physician support personnel to perform tasks that significantly extend the services of physicians. The programs in this directory are arranged by State, city, and program title within…

This annotated list of institutions is the first of two documents produced in a study of training needs and opportunities in communication for development for personnel from less-developed countries. Three categories of institutions that either presently offer or have the potential to offer communication for development training are listed: U.S.…

This directory lists the 89 funded and the 52 unfunded National Diffusion Network (NDN) educational projects for 1995. Each entry contains the following information: NDN project number; project title; address; telephone number; principal staff; grade level/population approval; key elements; when adoptions are reported; approximate implementation…

This directory lists programs which specialize in providing some form of home-based family-focused child development training for parents, parent educators, agencies, professionals, adolescents, and others. These programs were identified as possible supplements or complements to the training offered by the six regional federally funded Home Start…

Designed to provide access to information on health and health-related careers for American Indians, this directory presents the following: (1) Introduction (describes the need for American Indian health professionals and presents statistics on the number of Indians needed in the major health careers); (2) General Health Career Information (7…

The booklet provides a listing of both long-term and short-term educational programs and is aimed at providing students, counselors and health planners with much needed information on training programs in relatively new fields of nursing. It provides information on location, entrance requirements, length of program, when classes begin, and sources…

This guide provides information on 42 directories that list over 20,000 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Listings cover NGOs in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean Region, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico,…