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Powers, Lawrence; And Others – 1987
This document reports on efforts to develop an initiative to target increased involvement of the Arizona Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) with Arizona's disabled American Indians both on and off reservations. The report summarizes comments on important issues generated during a central office planning meeting of the Arizona RSA. It…
Descriptors: American Indians, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Government Role
New York State Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, Albany. – 1988
The objective of this Legislative Symposium was to assess the rural health care system of the State of New York, and in light of the current influences on that system, to design a framework for rural health care over the next two decades. The tasks of the participants were to reconfigure the rural health care system and make proposals on system…
Descriptors: Clinics, Health Care Costs, Health Education, Health Facilities
Corwin, Luene; And Others – 1986
This report reviews the program evaluation approaches used at three member colleges of the National Postsecondary Alliance (NPA), a consortium of postsecondary schools intent on achieving excellence in occupational education. The first paper, "Introduction" by Luene Corwin, discusses the goals and major activities of the NPA. The second…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria
Jenkins, Hugh M. – 1980
A report of a 1980 workshop on the relevance of U.S. education to students from developing countries is presented. Sponsors were the Agency for International Development (AID) and the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs. The 80 participants included representatives from AID, professionals from the academic sector and community service…
Descriptors: College Students, Developing Nations, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Bernard, Anne; Gayfer, Margaret – 1983
A study examined the nature and extent of women's participation in adult and nonformal education in third world areas. During the study, female coordinators of adult and nonformal educational programs for women in the Arab states, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and the South Pacific collected information on such…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Turnbull, Ann; Shaffer, Harriet – 1986
These summarized proceedings focus on the positive aspects of knowing, living with, and loving a child or an adult with a disability and ways in which service providers and policymakers could be more responsive to special family needs. An introductory chapter defines a family and family life and outlines seven premises that shape the specification…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Case Studies, Daily Living Skills, Delivery Systems
Czisny, Ken, Ed. – 1982
These proceedings contain 19 papers and 3 symposia from a research conference on adult and continuing education. Topics of the presentations are staff development needs of Indiana adult basic and secondary instructional staff, the advocate counseling model as a teaching tool for self-advocacy, needs assessment of three age groups of adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Wisconsin Univ. - Stout, Menomonie. Center for Vocational, Technical and Adult Education. – 1976
The two major goals of the conference were to identify, prioritize, and address critical problem areas and needs in trade and industrial (T & I) education with major emphasis upon implications for personnel development, and to encourage participants to develop at least a rudimentary communications network. Participants gathered preconference data…
Descriptors: Administrators, Change Agents, Coordination, Educational Cooperation
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. Center for Policy Research. – 1990
These conference proceedings contain 18 presentations that represent a broad range of approaches to improving the effectiveness of public employment, education, and training programs. Papers include "Kentucky Job Training Certificate System" (Rigsby); "Public/Private Training Collaboration at the Workplace: The Michigan Job Opportunity…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Apprenticeships, At Risk Persons
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. – 2000
This document reports on a 2-day symposium that brought together 180 representatives of Campus Alberta, which is a major initiative to make learning opportunities more flexible and responsive to learners' needs by focusing on such things as system coordination, course transferability, and ways to build on existing strengths and which now…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Miller, Greg, Ed. – 2000
These proceedings contain 48 presentations and 15 poster abstracts. Papers include "Computer Tasks Required in Selected Undergraduate Agriculture Courses" (Johnson, Ferguson, Vokinnns, Lester); "College of Agriculture Faculty Perceptions of Electronic Technologies in Teaching" (Dooley, Murphy); "Steering Through Turbulent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Sciences
Rosenbusch, Marcia Harmon, Ed. – National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006
The National Assessment Summit was designed to bring together users and producers of assessments and engage them in a discussion of unmet assessment needs and untapped assessment capacities. The meeting was truly a summit in that national foreign language organizations and associations were asked to nominate representatives to bring their…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language Tests, Educational Practices, Language Acquisition