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Carla Herrera; Michael Garringer; Rachel Bennett – MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2025
Mentoring is a series of collaborative activities and conversations between young people and older or more experienced persons (i.e., mentors) who are acting in a helping capacity to provide support that benefits one or more areas of the young person's development. This resource offers those who develop and implement mentoring services meaningful…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Development, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness
Hill, Ian; Lutzky, Amy Westpfahl – 2003
This study examined states efforts to retain children in their State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Data were obtained during spring and summer of 2000 through telephone interviews with state program officials from eight states selected based on a variety of demographic and programmatic variables; the states were Alabama, California,…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Eligibility, Enrollment
Virginia State General Assembly, Richmond. – 1984
This report, based on a study of engineering education in Virginia, presents information on the status of engineering programs in the state, women and minorities in engineering, research in engineering, recruitment and retention of engineering faculty, perspectives of business and industry, and the effect of the "crisis" in engineering…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Quality, Educational Trends, Engineering Education
Pelletier, Helen – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2007
In 2006, it was determined that Maine's new community college system--off to a remarkably promising start--was already at a critical juncture: nearing or exceeding capacity in many of their most popular programs, straining facilities and the ability of staff to deliver high quality programs and services, and struggling to meet the demand of many…
Descriptors: College Environment, Skilled Workers, Private Sector, Economic Development
Cooper, Amy; Letts, Kenea – 2002
The New York City public school system has built partnerships with other early childhood programs in the community to make universal prekindergarten (UPK) available in settings appropriate for young children and affording full-day options to working families. In the first city-wide effort to obtain parent feedback on the program's success, over…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Enrollment, Full Day Half Day Schedules, Parent Attitudes
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1990
This report responds to the California State Legislature request to examine the time needed to complete a doctoral degree and make recommendations relative to methods of increasing the rate of progress toward receiving doctoral degrees through the University of California without compromising the integrity of the academic process. The report…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Degree Requirements, Degrees (Academic), Doctoral Degrees
Galambos, Eva C. – 1984
The vocational education programs in the 14 Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) member states were examined in order to obtain an overview of the objectives of vocational education and the coordination of vocational programs between secondary and postsecondary institutions in those states. It was determined that 3.5 million high school…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Educational Change