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Moore, George R. – 1982
In order to address major permanent changes in the economic structure and workforce of its community, Chemeketa Community College (CCC) in Oregon has made a commitment to initiate as many short-term training programs as its resources permit. Short-term training, which takes less time than regular one-year certificate or two-year associate degree…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Job Skills, Job Training, Labor Force Development
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Direct linkWeston, Portia K. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1993
Reviews components of effective advisor training in community colleges. Describes the necessary informational and conceptual content of training programs, and the skills needed by advisors to advise students effectively. Reviews types of training programs and techniques. Outlines Greenville Technical College's model program for training advisors.…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Community Colleges, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Training
Pierce, Ken; Taylor, Alice – 1990
Given the number of Canadian children under the age of 12 and the number of licensed child care spaces available, Canada may need more than 200,000 early childhood educators to meet current potential child care needs. The number of community colleges in the country providing early childhood education training is insufficient to meet this need. An…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Community Colleges, Day Care
Coffman, Julia – 1999
The Families Matter series of papers from the Harvard Family Research Project advances the concept of family-centered child care, advocating an approach to early childhood education that addresses the development of the child and family together. Grounded in family support principles, which build on family strengths and work from a community's…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Download full textGruber, David – 2000
This document is intended as a guide to help employers, training providers, and others develop effective partnerships with leading-edge community colleges. The document begins with an overview of the strategies used by four effective training partnership initiatives involving the following corporations and community colleges: Sequins,…
Descriptors: Budgets, Community Colleges, Corporate Education, Corporations
National Policy Association, Washington, DC. – 2002
The Digital Economic Opportunity Committee (DEOC) was created by the National Policy Association (NPA) in 2001 to confront the critical national shortage of workers with the information technology (IT) skills needed for the information age economy. The committee oversaw an 18-month workforce development research project titled Crossing the Digital…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Delivery Systems, Demand Occupations, Education Work Relationship
