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Sharlonne Rollin Smith – School-University Partnerships, 2024
Purpose: The article discusses the development and growth of a newly established Noyce Scholarship Program at a Hispanic Serving Institution and the collaborative efforts of the School of Education (SOE) and its partners during the recruitment and retention process. Design/methodology/approach: The author will explore and answer questions: (1)…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Scholarships, Student Financial Aid
Venters, Monoka – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2021
Statewide higher education governing and coordinating boards have long been involved in academic planning, academic program review, and academic program approval. A detailed analysis of the templates that statewide boards require institutions to use during the program approval and review processes reveals the role these processes play in ensuring…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Policy, Resource Allocation, Enrollment Trends
Phelan, Julia; Egger, Jeffrey; Kim, Junok; Choi, Kilchan; Keum, Eunhee; Chung, Gregory K. W. K.; Baker, Eva L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2021
The National Math + Science Initiative (NMSI) is a nonprofit organization committed to improving educational outcomes that traces its roots back to the early 1990s. NMSI's College Readiness Program (CRP) is a long-standing program with the goal of promoting STEM education in high schools to improve students' preparation for college. The three-year…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Nonprofit Organizations, Program Evaluation, STEM Education
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Zhang, Chi; Reichgelt, Han; Rutherfoord, Rebecca H.; Wang, Andy Ju An – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2014
Health Information Technology (HIT) professionals are in increasing demand as healthcare providers need help in the adoption and meaningful use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems while the HIT industry needs workforce skilled in HIT and EHR development. To respond to this increasing demand, the School of Computing and Software Engineering…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Program Development, Curriculum Development, Health Education
Kotamraju, Pradeep; Mettille, John L., III – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2012
Career and technical education (CTE) is increasingly seen as a major potential contributor to the recovery of the U.S. economy. However, the effectiveness and impact of the current Carl D. Perkins Act (otherwise known as Perkins IV) that governs CTE are unclear. Is the federal investment in CTE paying off? To answer this, we need to establish the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, Vocational Education, Cost Effectiveness
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Clark, Patti J. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2010
Today there are over 1,500 public-use airports in the United States. Each of these airports provides a service to the surrounding community, whether in the form of a general aviation or commercial air service facility. An airport is dependent on many facets of the local government infrastructure for support services. Also, the airports have ties…
Descriptors: Air Transportation, Armed Forces, Shared Facilities, Shared Resources and Services
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1984
Profiles of the 14 states of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) provide information on the structure of these states for public postsecondary education and budgeting. For each state, the following areas are discussed: state-level coordinating and/or governing agency, institutional governing boards, state board for vocational education,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Bishop, Leslee J. – 1975
This resource guide suggests ideas for implementing needs assessment, evaluation, monitoring, and planning for staff development programs. It grew out of experiences of 148 Georgia school systems that in 1974 initiated staff development programs. It maintains that leaders of staff development programs ought to be able to conduct a learner needs…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Formative Evaluation, Inservice Education
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Instructional Services. – 1981
The resource manual is designed to help teachers in Georgia provide quality education programs for trainable and severely mentally retarded children. State guidelines are presented for six major topics (sample subtopics in parentheses): definitions; eligibility criteria; due process (referral, individualized education program); program…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Definitions, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education
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Walker, Mary Beth; Sjoquist, David L. – Journal of Education Finance, 1996
Examines Georgia's model capital outlay program for public schools. Despite the current program's many positive aspects, incentives provided to local school districts can lead to inefficiencies, contradictions, and inequities for districts with older physical plants. The program also contains an incentive to use debt financing, rather than…
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Facility Improvement
Bartos, Robert B.; Smith, Lyle R. – 1979
Central Savannah River Area Cooperative Educational Services Agency (CSRA CESA) implemented a career education project for grades K-12 in the Columbia County School System to develop a replicable model for incremental improvements. The major emphasis was the infusion of career education activities into the teaching of basic skills. Program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education
Turpin, James D. – 1976
A model to encourage and facilitate change in school media programs was developed and field tested. The model was intended to provide assessment measures of media centers, planning strategies, and methods for implementing change. The model considered personnel, physical plant, collections, and operations. In 1975, the model was field tested in…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, Change Strategies, Data Collection, Doctoral Dissertations
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Instructional Services. – 1986
School media programs in a variety of settings within the state of Georgia that have proven to be successful are described in this publication from the Georgia Department of Education. For each entry, the school, media center, and specific program component of interest are described. The components include: (1) modernization of a media center…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Curriculum Development, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Media
Harper, Margaret T.; And Others – 1979
This guide presents materials to help the teacher in implementing a teacher advisory program (grades 8-12) to provide career and life guidance within the classroom. Emphasis in grades 8 and 9 is on values clarification, decision making, and career exploration. In grades 10-12 greater emphasis is placed on career choice and selection. The guide…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration
Schrader, William B., Ed. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1979
This conference was organized around four policy concerns: (1) the needs of handicapped, gifted, and bilingual students; (2) the use of test results to allocate federal compensatory education funds; (3) the validity of minimum competency testing; and (4) the demand for increasingly sophisticated evaluations. Garry L. McDaniels discussed the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Accountability, Bilingual Students, Compensatory Education
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