Covering the time period from July 1973 to July 1974, the report documents the first year of a project to implement career education in the Highline High School in Seattle. A career alternatives model (CAM) to provide each student with opportunities to consider all alternatives is described as a means for student development in self awareness,…

Forty-two of 47 public community colleges in Texas currently offer developmental/compensatory programs. Programmatic goals fall into two categories: (1) the improvement of cognitive skills to the extent that students can progress into credit courses; (2) affective development to improve student self-concept, provide motivation and a successful…

The annotated bibliography was prepared to assist those applying for grants under Part D of the Vocational Education Act of 1963, as amended. The bibliography is intended to help applicants plan and conduct better projects as a result of knowing about completed and ongoing research. Computer-assisted searches of several data bases recovered items…

The third party evaluation report focuses on the second year activities of a three-year exemplary project in career education conducted by the North Central Technical Institute (NCTI). The project was designed to provide career education activities to the adult population of an economically depressed rural area in north-central Wisconsin. Job…

The field of student development is currently quite fluid, which means that there is room for almost any carefully formulated hypothesis about the developmental process. The author discusses three models of student development but concludes that none should serve as the only model for student development specialists. There is profound and…

The career education development project presented in the report covers the period from July 1, 1972 through June 30, 1975, with approximately seven percent of the combined school populations of Muskegon and Muskegon Heights, Michigan, participating. The stratified, selected sample was comprised of one experimental group of 202 "target…

In conjunction with the regular 1970 summer session, Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) sponsored a developmental program for disadvantaged minority students. Fifty-two students participated, 34 financially supported by the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and 18 others with similar backgrounds and characteristics. The minority students were enrolled in…

A long range development plan, conceived as a general guide to final objectives, uses many diagrams and maps to illustrate the text. The plan is predicated on the assumption that orderly and efficient development of site possibilities is subject to ever-changing influences. The following areas are examined--(1) campus environment, (2) academic…

Following a review of campus planning history at the Berkeley campus, a statement of academic objectives and needs, and a description of the campus, a long range development plan is set forth representing an updating of the 1956 plan. The objectives, principles and major proposals of the plan are presented. Maps of the proposed campus developments…

Based on enrollment, building area and parking area projections, the development plan describes very briefly these areas of development: parking and housing, administration, athletics, academic departments, libraries, museums, related community and commercial services, transportation, land acquisition, and the neighborhood. Very detailed sketches…

The report takes a look at teacher training in affective education. It defines vague concepts such as affective education and interpersonal skills, develops a rationale for needed changes in the school system, and outlines specific strategies in teacher training as one way to begin to bring about change. The manual was developed in response to…

Three related documents comprise this final report of a project dealing with the creation, testing and distribution of mathematical software. The first summarizes discussions held by the principal investigators with selected experts on mathematical software, the second consists of a working paper for discussion, and the third is a paper which…

This booklet was compiled from information received from employment agencies involved in the federal summer jobs program over the past five years and is intended to provide employment staffs with a reference to various ideas, techniques, and resources useful in training summer employees. Ideas and techniques are presented in outline and summary…

The papers and transcripts included in this report were presented at the EPDA Institute for in-service training of administrators and trustees of small colleges held at Eureka College, Illinois, in August 1970. The papers included are: "Issues and Problems of the Small Colleges in the Seventies," by Frederic W. Ness; "The…

Recognizing the adverse effects of poverty on Mexican Americans, and determined to help narrow the barriers caused by a low socioeconomic status, Aims college, a locally funded institution in Weld County, Colorado, conceptualized and implemented a special needs program designed to provide vocational and occupational training for disadvantaged…