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Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2019
Work-based learning provides students an opportunity as aspiring employees to explore careers and to turn theory and simulation into practice by gaining on-the-job experience. The hands-on experience gained from work-based learning opportunities, especially when considered in combination with the attainment and application of employment soft…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, On the Job Training, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Thielman, Jeff – Momentum, 2002
Describes an educational foundation that offers financial support to those wishing to institute a San Miguel/Nativity or Cristo Rey model school. Reports that these schools must strive to reduce dropout rates, increase number of students prepared for college, and increase number of students receiving Catholic education. (NB)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Demonstration Programs
Parsons, Cynthia – 1988
Every high school student should not only be provided with appropriate academic instruction but with supervised work experience as well. For the past 70 years, the number of students in cooperative education programs has grown steadily. Despite these steady gains, the best estimates place no more than 10 percent of all vocational education…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Rinehart, Richard L. – 1982
A variety of linkage components that can help build and maintain effective relationships between the worlds of work and education are identified, and barriers to the development of such relationships and techniques for overcoming them are described in this report. The first section lists different forms of industry/education cooperation and their…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Planning, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education
Froomkin, Joseph – 1978
The economic state of higher education and the social and political forces that threaten it are examined. College attendance and employment patterns since the 1960's and projected trends for the 1980's are considered. Projections of a shift in employment patterns and a deteriorated market for college graduates are thought to indicate the need for…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Graduates, College Students, Doctoral Degrees