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Direct linkMcIntyre, Sue; Dale, Helen; Gabler, Carol – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2010
Health literacy, the ability to obtain and understand information and services to make good health decisions, has received much attention recently. Literacy is a stronger predictor of health status than age, income, race, ethnicity, employment status, or educational level. Inadequate health literacy costs the United States an estimated $100-$236…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Health Education, Literacy, Health Promotion
Butler, Veronica J. – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1978
A counselor and recruiter for the Madison Area Technical College describes their outreach career awareness project to correct the imbalance of minority, disadvantaged, and handicapped students in postsecondary education. Special recruitment efforts, counseling services, and followup activities will be provided, including various academic and…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged, Handicapped Students
Download full textKaufman, Dennis A.; Cloutier, Norman R. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2004
This paper describes a community-based learning (CBL) project involving the economic redevelopment of two environmentally contaminated former industrial sites or "brownfields." The study was conducted over four semesters by several economics classes and involved assembling a database, measuring the impact of the brownfields on…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Economics Education, Databases, Real Estate
de Usabel, Frances; Johnson, Debra Wilcox – 1986
The final product of the Wisconsin Special Users Needs Assessment project initiated in the summer of 1984, this report outlines how library systems have worked with hard-to-reach and underserved populations over the past 10 years. The document is divided into three parts. Based on a review of the systems' annual plans and evaluations for the past…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Ethnic Groups, Federal Aid
PDF pending restorationThompson, Carmen; Jensen, David – 1977
Community-Based Educational Counseling for Adults (CBECA) is a program operated through the University of Wisconsin--Extension. CBECA explores educational options and adjustments for returning adult students, intending to help them overcome personal barriers to continued education and to assist them in making the what, how, when, and where of…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Development, Adult Education, Agency Cooperation
Frederick, Catherine; Huss-Lederman, Susan; Johnson, Jewelie – 1998
The Southeastern Wisconsin Workplace Communication Project is a workplace English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) resource and outreach program involving a partnership of businesses and adult educators in a rural area that has experienced an increase in new speakers of English in the manufacturing workforce. The guide provides workplace educators and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Evaluation Methods
