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Mission Intentionality and Operational Integrity: The Essential Role of Faculty in Adult Degree Programs
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Blair, Anthony L. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2012
Eastern University has moved from a distributed model to a centralized model for administration of its adult degree programs. This move involved numerous factors and motivations but one central component in the ultimate success of that move was a significant change in the role of faculty assigned to the program. Once regarded as rather ancillary…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Students, Adult Programs, Administrative Organization
A CONFERENCE TO ENLIST THE PARTICIPATION OF FIFTY INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN SPECIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMS TO PREPARE WOMEN FOR PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT.
LLOYD, BETTY JANE – 1964
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES WERE THREEFOLD--(1) THE PREPARATION OF PLANS TO REACH THE UNDERGRADUATE WOMAN AND MOTIVATE HER TO PLAN REALISTICALLY FOR COMBINING FAMILY AND WORK IN THE SUCCESSIVE PHASES OF HER LIFE, (2) THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MECHANISM FOR CATALOGING EXISTING PART-TIME COURSES ON CAMPUS AND EXISTING MATERIALS FOR HOME USE SO THAT THIS…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Career Counseling, Colleges
School-to-Work.
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Gacka, Richard – 1997
The document details the development of a project to provide adult students with the academic and work skills required for admission to the Regional Skill Center, which is an adult technical school serving Erie County, Pennsylvania. The body of the report summarizes the following project outcomes: development of a four-tiered system of work force…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Curriculum Development
Focus on Networking. A 353 Special Project, FY 1995-96. Final Report.
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Royce and Royce, Inc., Lancaster, PA. – 1996
The Focus on Networking project was undertaken to identify significant Adult Education Act Section 353 demonstration projects produced by Pennsylvania project directors and adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) practitioners nationwide and to publish a newsletter to disseminate information about those projects. A panel of 6 literacy experts…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Curriculum Development
Developing and Disseminating a Curriculum in English Language Survival Skills for Pre- and Non-Literate Speakers of Other Languages. Final Report.
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Gaul, Patricia Reitz – 1982
This special demonstration project was undertaken to field test and disseminate a curriculum entitled Emergency English for Refugees (EER). Designed to meet the immediate English language needs of pre- and non-literate adult refugees and immigrants, the EER is a 26-unit competency-based English-as-a-second-language (ESL) curriculum that deals with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Communication Skills, Competency Based Education
Rural Co-Options for Lifelong Learning. A 353 Final Report.
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Leto, Lyn – 1997
In 1996, individuals associated with the Lifelong Learning Center in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, proposed the formation of a three-district literacy consortium in a tricounty rural area that would cooperatively offer adults residing in the districts the option of earning a standard high school diploma in lieu of a General Educational…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills
Survival Skills Curriculum in Language Arts for 0-4 Level Adult Basic Education Student.
Leopold, Joan Y.; Anstine, Carolyn G.; Greene, Margaret P. – 1983
A project was undertaken to develop a realistic survival skills curriculum in language arts for adult basic education (ABE) students that could be used with predischarge residents in institutions for mentally ill individuals in Pennsylvania. After identifying 28 predischarge residents at the Harrisburg State Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Behavioral Objectives