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Rauner, Mary; Lundquist, Sara; Smith, Amelia – WestEd, 2019
This resource provides step-by-step guidance to teams who are developing, strengthening, or expanding a College Promise program. The Guidebook is organized into three sections that cover topics ranging from how to frame your College Promise program to evaluating and implementing it. Each section includes embedded tools and exercises to help you…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
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Georgia Heyward – Grantee Submission, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand a school-based mentoring model that uses school staff as adult mentors. This study presents existing literature on school-based mentoring models along with a case study of one teen parent high school. The report also includes step-by-step guidance for implementation. At the case study school, all school…
Descriptors: Mentors, School Personnel, Staff Role, Adults
Achieving the Dream, 2018
Helping more students achieve their dreams involves identifying a wider set of student needs--including financial challenges and family responsibilities--and offering redesigned support services to meet them holistically. This holistic student supports approach emphasizes the need for colleges to redefine the way they understand, design, integrate…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Program Design, College Programs, Academic Support Services
Shingleton, John D.; Fitzpatrick, Edwin B. – 1985
This document presents college practitioners with a practical guide for establishing, maintaining, expanding, or revitalizing a contemporary career planning and placement center. The introduction to this guide contains a brief history of career planning and placement. Chapter 1, Career Planning and Placement in the Academic Setting, addresses the…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Role, Employment Opportunities, Higher Education
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Ansley, James A. – NASPA Journal, 1983
Suggests that student personnel services could be expanded to provide employee assistance programs for college faculty and staff. Outlines steps to implement an EAP including planning, organizing, budgeting, staffing, directing, and evaluating. Suggests more effective use of campus resources to preserve human resources. (JAC)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Environment, Delivery Systems, Higher Education
Graham, Gary – 1983
The accountability model presented in this report was developed by the Student Support Services staff of Gavilan College (GC) to help meet public demands for learner success, to increase efficiency, and to promote a proactive mode of delivering student support services. Introductory material traces the development of the model and discusses the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Models, Organizational Objectives
National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education, Arlington, VA. – 2003
This guide identifies higher education strategies that effectively recruit and support future special educators from underrepresented groups. It begins with a list of common barriers to recruiting and retaining such students. Principles that make partnership efforts work are identified, such as a focus on connections, publicity, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Partnerships in Education
Spaid, Robin L.; Parsons, Michael H. – 1980
As an informational aid for institutions interested in initiating displaced homemaker projects, this manual describes the development and operations of Hagerstown Junior College's Office of Displaced Homemaker Services. The manual's introduction outlines the specific objectives of the office, which was created to provide support services and/or…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Counseling, Displaced Homemakers, Job Placement
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Dept. of Adult, Vocational and Technical Education. – 1991
This model, implemented at Dawson Technical Institute in Chicago, suggests an interrelated network of services that provides program applicants with services needed to enroll in a vocational or academic program. The model helps program staff recruit, counsel and, upon completion of vocational programs, assist minority students in finding programs…
Descriptors: Blacks, College Programs, Educational Planning, Hispanic Americans
1986
This report contains the final products of the Student Services Program Review Project (SSPRP), which was designed to develop evaluation models to measure the efficacy of the various student services programs provided by the California community colleges. The first sections of the report offer introductory information on the goals and activities…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, College Admission, Community Colleges
Ryan, Monnie – 1980
Based on activities at the Trumbull Campus of Kent State University, this guidebook presents suggestions for the implementation and operation of a series of informational workshops designed as a vehicle for the recruitment and orientation of adults who are considering enrolling in college. The guidebook first gives a rationale for the workshops…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adults, Educational Needs, Information Dissemination
WCET, 2002
Most campuses, recognizing the important role that student services play in learner success and retention, have a full range of student services in place to support their on-campus learners. Yet, many have failed to provide the same level of service to their off-campus learners who cannot come to campus. All students deserve access to a full array…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Guidelines, Information Systems
Wentling, Tim L.; Piland, William E. – 1982
This document, one of 12 guides that have been developed to facilitate evaluation by and for local education agency (LEA) personnel in Illinois, covers assessment of student services. This activity is specifically directed to three areas associated with student services: (1) guidance services as they relate to counseling, student records, testing,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Career Counseling, Career Education
Oblinger, Diana G., Ed.; Rush, Sean C., Ed. – 1998
This collection of 16 monographs centers around the theme the "future compatible campus," which is based on the premise that higher education will become a "connected campus" in a technology-enabled environment consisting of three components: connected learning, connected service to the community; and connected management. In…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Services, Computer Assisted Instruction