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Download full textGoetz, Bill – North Dakota University System, 2009
This document presents a speech delivered by Chancellor Bill Goertz at the meeting of the State Board of Higher Education last November 19, 2009. In his speech, Chancellor Goertz reports that: (1) according to a Delta Cost Project report, North Dakota ranked among the top five states in regard to market-based productivity; (2) the Midwest Higher…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Search Committees (Personnel), Distance Education
Couey, Ned; And Others – 1976
One of a series of papers on critical issues in vocational-technical education, this paper examines rural education as it now exists, and some of the diagnostic information available which will assist in identifying some specific needs. Some problems in meeting needs are discussed, and it is noted that data about the students, the adult…
Descriptors: Educational Problems, Educational Trends, Program Development, Rural Education
Fritz, Louis Winfield – 1983
Richland County, Ohio has brought together what is generally considered to be the broadest-based private development corporation in the United States. In 1982 a group of bankers and corporate executives made a decision to make a countywide commitment to support one corporate construction exclusively to direct a program and strategy for economic…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Employment Opportunities, Program Development, Program Implementation
Buzzell, Charles H. – 1976
Half of this paper is addressed to the national phenomena of shrinking resources and expanding needs and their effect on society. After noting that increased productivity can be a major intervention factor in mitigating their effect, the author gives ideas about how vocational education can become increasingly productive and where it might begin.…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Needs, Productivity, Program Development
Turker, A. Vural – 1987
Vocational education planning is complex and extensive and requires the proper and adequate involvement of business and industry circles in program development. To rebuild their institutions and replenish adversely affected systems and depleted resources after World War II, industrialized nations have implemented education and training for…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Program Development
Buffer, Loretta C.; And Others – 1976
One of a series of papers on critical issues in vocational-technical education, this paper discusses problems and possible solutions to the need for special consideration of individual needs as students migrate within and between educational programs. Articulation is required so that students may move from program to program, or from institution…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Curriculum, Educational Problems, Educational Trends
Ruzicka, Paul L.; And Others – 1983
The industrial production program is a regular education program which was designed to provide vocational training to handicapped students. The program incorporates individual programing, close supervision, small group instruction, and academic support in a skill based framework intended to produce specific occupational competencies in students…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Disabilities, Job Skills, Program Descriptions
Ottina, John R. – 1974
Current Office of Education career education program initiatives and ideas in the planning stages are directed to strengthening of leadership, vocational education research grants and exemplary projects, curriculum development and dissemination, and Federal support. Research grant emphasis has been on 12-18 month full-scale career education…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Gonzalez, Jose; Vazquez, Anibal – 1976
One of a series of papers on critical issues in vocational-technical education, this paper discusses the need for a bilingual-vocational education program in America emphasizing that oral and written language is not the only or even most important variable in developing a bilingual-vocational education program and that an understanding of the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Influences, Educational Needs, Educational Problems
Butler, Marsha L. – 1985
ASPIRE--"Assisting Special Populations in Readiness for Employment"--is a secondary special education transition program featuring coordinated services between the public and private sectors to integrate secondary level disabled students into subsidized private sector employment. ASPIRE was introduced into the Lake Tahoe Unified School…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Herman, Mauricio – 1987
The present financial crisis in the world's developing nations, as evidenced by the external debt situation in Latin America, is forcing governmental decision makers to make some very hard choices regarding the financing of education. In times of such hard choices, it is important that those responsible for funding education in developing nations…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Implementing Competency-Based Teacher Education: Future Directions for Vocational Teacher Educators.
Finch, Curtis; And Others – 1976
Designed to provide direction for those who contemplate establishing a competency-based program for vocational teachers, this monograph contains major papers developed for the Institute on Competency-Based Teacher Education for Virginia Vocational and Technical Teacher Educators held in Blacksburg, November 23-26, 1975. Also included are two…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Program Administration, Program Development, Speeches
Grubb, W. Norton – 1984
As postsecondary vocational education turns increasingly to preparation for high technological occupations, the question arises as to whether or not this infatuation with education for high technological occupations is reasonable and justified. Data on technician-level employment seem to contradict the view that high technological manufacturing is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Demand, Postsecondary Education, Program Development
Mahoney, James R. – 1981
Energy education has proliferated at two-year colleges in recent years. Most of the initial barriers to program development, including a shortage of expert advisors and instructors, a scarcity of established curricula and instructional resources, the delay between program conception and implementation, and difficulties in obtaining reliable…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Educational Trends, Energy Conservation
Campbell, Clifton P. – 1983
In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with few exceptions, occupational specialization programs for male students first become available at the secondary level (grades 10-12). Education is not compulsory, and substantial numbers drop out at all levels. Adolescents who leave school at the primary (elementary) or intermediate (grades 7-9) level must wait…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries
