A study was conducted to obtain an initial view of exemplary programs involving an emphasis on work and education in postsecondary settings. Twenty programs were selected and described on the basis of comprehensiveness of approach, cross-section of institutional settings, cross-section of educational traditions or approaches to career education,…

Recommendations are presented for developing career guidance centers in community colleges which would enable their clients to explore, prepare for, select, and progress in an occupation in line with their individual needs, interests, and abilities, and in a job with occupational opportunities. The following areas are outlined: (1) career guidance…

The initial section of this report, which presents the current status of Oglala Sioux Community College after eight years of development, focuses on the college's purposes and objectives. These include providing (1) the Oglala Sioux people with resources and personnel trained for the tribal communities' developmental needs; (2) the Lakota…

Lorain County Community College (LCCC) has provided training programs for the employees of the United States Steel Corporation since 1969 and for the Lorain Telephone Company since 1977. These training programs are campus-based, and the students attend classes for four or five week periods at a time. An effort has been made to adhere as closely as…

Unemployment, especially among unskilled teenagers, and the lack of skilled workers to fill existing job openings in the Michigan Upper Peninsula gave impetus to the Bay de Noc Community College program, "Contracting with Business and Industry." On the basis of a contract between business, student, and the college, the business agrees to provide…

The Maryland statewide plan to improve access to community college education for the state's handicapped population is presented in five parts. The first section describes the efforts to determine the current status of handicapped students in the community college, through extensive college self-analysis. These involved the development of plans…

This five-part report summarizes the 1975-1978 activities of the Human Services/Drug Abuse (HS/DA) Project coordinated by Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC) under the sponsorship of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Part I discusses the membership selection, formation, organization, and current status of a national demonstration consortium…

The 1978-79 activities of the Human Services/Drug Abuse (HS/DA) Project are summarized in this three-part report. The Project, which is coordinated by Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC), seeks to: (1) form a national HS/DA consortium of two-year colleges, (2) develop two modular and multi-component courses for use in HS/DA programs, and (3)…

While demonstrating the potential of feminist education to promote positive social change, experiences with the women's studies programs at Staten Island Community College (SICC) and Brooklyn College (BC) also dramatize the need for women's studies to overcome factionalism and middle-class elitism in order to construct a pedagogy for oppressed…

The budget, purposes, staffing, and outcomes of Chaffey Community College's Educational Marketing Program (EMP) are summarized in this report. The paper first delineates EMP allocations for salaries, benefits, supplies, contracted services, and capital outlay. Major program objectives are then outlined: to enhance Chaffey's image, to increase…

THIS SURVEY OF UNIVERSITY-LEVEL ADULT CREDIT AND NON CREDIT COURSES COVERS OVER 30 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN GREATER NEW YORK--LARGELY EVENING COLLEGES, COMMUNITY COLLEGES, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS. AN HISTORICAL REVIEW PORTRAYS THE GROWTH OF LIBERAL ADULT EDUCATION SINCE THE FOUNDING OF COOPER UNION IN 1859. A SURVEY OF ADULT EDUCATORS…

The purpose of the Transition to Technology Program (TTT) is to introduce persons who have traditionally not been exposed to technological education or careers to an overview of the basic concepts of technology and career options in technical fields. Women, minorities, and the economically and educationally disadvantaged, those groups with low…

The document provides descriptions of five individualized learning models developed by the Community College of Vermont, a noncampus institution, for its predominantly adult student population. Models include: (1) Cluster, involving 10-30 students in a learning support group to define their needs and interests and to investigate appropriate…

Consumer education programs responsive to the needs of students enrolled in two-year colleges and other institutes at the postsecondary level are described in this publication, one of six in a series prepared by the Educational Division of Consumers Union for the Consumer Education Materials Project (CEMP). The case studies in this volume are…

This report describes National Science Foundation (NSF) activities in support of two-year college science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education for fiscal year 1996. Chapter 1 includes an introduction and overview, with tables showing the levels of two-year college support by NSF division from 1993 to 1996. Chapter 2 provides…