Discusses the efforts of Portland Community College to accommodate the physically handicapped student in his struggle to gain a college education. (RK)

Reveals trends influencing the enrollment rate of hearing-impaired college students and discusses the elements of a comprehensive support service program. These include: planning; establishment of services, i.e., counseling, interpreting, note-taking, and tutorial services; and benefits to the institution, the hearing-impaired students, and…

A policy-focus Delphi study was conducted to identify the barriers which prohibit handicapped students from entering or completing vocational technical programs in community colleges in Texas and to identify recommendations and tasks relating to the removal of these barriers. A seventy-two member participant group, which included a nineteen member…

Provides an overview of the topic of extending educational services to disabled students, a detailed description of the necessary steps in developing and implementing a comprehensive program, and a discussion of an exemplary program at De Anza College in California. (AYC)

A policy-focus Delphi study was conducted to identify the barriers which prohibit handicapped students from entering or completing vocational technical programs in community colleges in Texas and to identify recommendations and tasks relating to the removal of these barriers. A seventy-two member participant group, which included a nineteen member…

The impact of Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, prohibiting educational discrimination against the handicapped by institutions receiving Health, Education, and Welfare funds, was investigated specifically as it related to Leeward Community College (Hawaii). Information compiled by the Self-Evaluation 504 Task Force at the college,…

This report summarizes a project designed to develop vocational educational programs and services for educationally disadvantaged and physically handicapped students at Fresno City College, California. The introduction provides an overview of the two phases of the project: phase I, a needs assessment; and phase II, curriculum development and…

Developed as part of an effort to serve disadvantaged and handicapped students at Triton College (a community college), this handbook is designed to (1) acquaint faculty, and other educators, with a grant project at the college, (2) increase faculty and educators' awareness of the needs of disadvantaged and handicapped students, and (3) to expand…

Developed as part of a research and design project for disadvantaged and handicapped vocational education students at Fresno City College, California, two management plans to assure compliance with affirmative action and sex fairness legislation are presented in this booklet: Plan 1, a generic plan of action to qualify for federal funding, and…

Guidelines are presented which deal with three areas considered by the Allocations Task Force in establishing a Handicapped Student Services Program. The first set of guidelines focuses on developing an allocations process and formula to meet "Full Need" for the Handicapped Student Services Program. Issues considered in developing this…

By 1973, a number of special programs existed in the Los Angeles Community College District to meet the needs of the over 3000 handicapped students in the system, as well as of other handicapped members of the community. Handicapped enablers had been designated on each of the eight campuses to provide special supportive services, such as priority…

The operational guidelines in this manual were compiled to assist college/district personnel in complying with government regulations, to provide California community college administrations with a uniform approach to programs and services, to aid local administrators and special resource personnel in developing or improving service and program…

The project's purpose was to implement a vocational curriculum evaluation model developed by the Metropolitan Community College (MCC) District. The model was formatively field tested with ten MCC vocational programs and implemented in the evaluation of twenty-four vocational programs. The model's criteria was based on the program's (1)…

A project was conducted to provide women, minority, veteran, and handicapped college students with a structured cooperative education work experience which would enhance career selection and mobility and provide supervised employment in fields related to the students' interests and academic majors while supplying the employers with trained…