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Lowther, Malcolm A. – 1976
There are indications that increasing numbers of people will seek career changes at mid-life. The data that are available suggest that these people will seek to make career shifts for both voluntary and involuntary reasons and that their change will be both within and between fields. Also, many will require additional education. Their educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Educational Needs, Educational Problems
Peer reviewedBenner, Richard S.; Potter, David L. – Liberal Education, 1981
Academic careers are becoming an individual and institutional problem. The dimensions of the problem are outlined, a limited set of frameworks for addressing it through career change are provided, and an individual and institutional program to assist faculty in career change is recommended. (MSE)
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Planning, College Faculty, College Role
Knox, Alan B. – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1979
An overview is provided of continuing education programs for mid-life change, with an emphasis on the offerings of community colleges and employers; on career, family life, and women's education; and on counseling. (SK)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Counseling, Career Change, Career Counseling
Schurr, George M. – 1980
A project was undertaken to determine whether there are any nationally significant proqrams or projects dealing with the emerging problem of tenured faculty needing or wanting to reevaluate their careers and economic situations. Various approaches are described, with examples given. A section about on-campus approaches looks at the environment of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Career Change, Career Planning, College Faculty
Brown, Grace Carolyn – 1982
An innovative strategic planning process was developed at Cuyahoga Community College (CCC) to identify and implement projects that would yield benefits to the college and the community in the coming years. After an analysis of the economic and social characteristics of Northeastern Ohio and a resource audit of the college's fiscal, physical, and…
Descriptors: Career Change, College Planning, Community Colleges, Delivery Systems
Download full textCampbell, Robert E., Comp.; Shaltry, Paul, Comp. – 1978
This monograph presents articles and materials which examine the relevant theoretical literature pertaining to career counseling services for adults. It reviews alternative ways to deliver career guidance to adults and identifies a set of researchable issues. The two articles in section 1, The Context, address the historical development of people…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adults, Career Change
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1983
These proceedings represent a compilation of the papers presented at a conference on entrepreneurship education that was designed to promote the infusion of entrepreneurial concepts into vocational education curricula. Included in the first section of the volume are descriptions of the following projects sponsored by the U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Career Change, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development
