Resources are enumerated for community college personnel working with economically and/or academically disadvantaged students and with students who speak limited English. The document first provides operational definitions for these groups and then lists and discusses resources under the following headings: (1) needs assessment, (2) instruction…

In Dallas in 1970, high school outdoor education began as a cocurricular woods and waters boys' club sponsored by a community sportsman. Within one year, it grew into a fully accredited, coeducational, academic course with a curriculum devoted to the study of wildlife in Texas, ecology, conservation, hunting, firearm safety, fishing, boating and…

This partially annotated bibliography lists 391 bibliographies, resource lists, and literature reviews on women. The entries, published in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, are classified alphabetically by author into 30 categories including a general category, anthropology and sociology, art and music, child care, criminal justice,…

Prepared to create awareness of the range of New York State programs, activities, and resources, this directory summarizes VEA (Vocational Education Act)-funded fiscal year 1978-1979 projects that were designed to reduce sex bias, sex stereotyping, and sex discrimination in vocational education. A list of resources developed in New York through…

THIS FOUR-WEEK COURSE, DEVELOPED AND ADMINISTERED BY THE INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS, LAW ENFORCEMENT EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY EXTENSION, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, IS DESIGNED TO PREPARE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO BE INSTRUCTORS AND TRAINING OFFICERS, TO UPGRADE EXISTING INSTRUCTORS, AND TO ENABLE TRAINING OFFICERS TO GIVE EFFECTIVE…

FEDERAL LEGISLATION HAS PROVIDED FOR PUBLIC PROGRAMS OF OCCUPATIONAL AGRICULTURE EDUCATION IN LAND GRANT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS. PROGRAM OBJECTIVES SHOULD BE TO DEVELOP KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS, PROVIDE OCCUPATIONAL GUIDANCE AND PLACEMENT, AND DEVELOP ABILITIES IN HUMAN RELATIONS AND…

OUR NATION IS PLAGUED WITH RURAL POVERTY EXTENDING THROUGH MOST AREAS OF OUR COUNTRY AND ENCOMPASSING SOME 14 MILLION RURAL PERSONS. THIS TOTAL NUMBER WOULD BE EVEN LARGER IF SO MANY RURAL PERSONS HAD NOT MIGRATED INTO THE URBAN AREAS OF OUR COUNTRY. THE RURAL POOR POPULATION IS CHARACTERIZED BY--LOW INCOME, A HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (4 PERCENT…

USING DATA FROM A STANFORD UNIVERSITY STUDY IN FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, A MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF 25 MEDIA USE AND INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIORS. SEVEN SOCIAL-PERSONAL AND THREE PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES WERE ALSO CONSIDERED. YOUNGER ADULTS WERE MOST LIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN ADULT EDUCATION, ESPECIALLY VOCATIONAL COURSES AND EVENING CLASSES AND…

THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS 1959 SURVEY WAS TO ANALYZE SOME OF THE BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA RESIDENT CENTER, HUNTSVILLE. FINDINGS WERE TABULATED IN SUMMARY FORM AND BY MAJOR FIELDS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST. OF THE STUDENTS (LARGELY YOUNG ADULTS), 51 PERCENT WERE IN ENGINEERING. ONLY 16 PERCENT WERE FEMALE. MOST…

THIS 5-YEAR DEMONSTRATION PROJECT PROVIDED ADOLESCENT EDUCABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED STUDENTS WITH A COMBINED PROGRAM OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND SERVICES AND OTHER SECONDARY LEVEL EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING EXPERIENCES. STATE AND LOCAL VOCATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES WERE UTILIZED. STUDENTS WERE REFERRED FOR VOCATIONAL…

Policy strategies implemented at the State University of New York in response to enrollment decline and financial cutbacks are considered. The following areas are addressed: institutional mission, administrative organization, enrollment plan, method of reallocating resources, a systematic program for staff development, program evaluation,…

This document is a curriculum outline for a unit of a course about adult education in Great Britain. The objectives of the unit are the following: (1) to identify existing forms of provision for adult education and training; (2) to relate existing provision to explicit policies and to existing demand; (3) to understand the character of the…

This three-part curriculum for entrepreneurship education is primarily for postsecondary level, including four-year colleges and adult education, but it can be adapted for special groups or vocational teacher education. The emphasis of the seven instructional units in Part II is establishing business. Unit G focuses on obtaining managerial…

A regional plan for optometric education in the western United States is summarized. Central to the plan is the development of cooperative programs among the region's three schools, the Pacific University College of Optometry, Southern California College of Optometry, and the University of California School of Optometry at Berkeley. A plan for the…

This report describes a project to provide Texas with a training model for reading consultant use in training adult basic education teachers. The first section lists three project purposes: to provide a training model, to develop teacher resources for staff development, and to provide teachers with information about the reading process and…