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Murgatroyd, Stephen – Adult Education (London), 1980
Educational opportunities for the disabled adults are, in theory, little different from those available to other adults. There are, however, obvious and less obvious extra difficulties in their paths, and the author offers some suggestions on how counseling can help overcome these. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Coping, Disabilities
Webb, Mel – 1983
A comprehensive student basic skills assessment program was developed at St. Louis Community College (SLCC) at Florissant Valley to appraise student readiness to take courses, gather information for counseling and advising, diagnose student problems, and evaluate program efficiency and effectiveness. The steps taken in developing the program were:…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Counseling, Educational Testing
Aiken, James B. – 1978
In establishing a secondary school teacher/advisor system and advisory group, the advisor should direct his efforts toward and encourage decisions about three critical areas: the state of the group and possible enabling norm patterns; the conditions of openness, trust, and safety in the group; and the student in relation to the group processes.…
Descriptors: Classroom Guidance Programs, Educational Counseling, Faculty Advisers, Group Counseling
Aiken, James B. – 1978
Responding to today's high school students' human needs as well as educational needs necessitates that the teacher return to serving as an adult friend during their school life. Administrators are helping to set the stage for facilitating learning how to learn, and teacher/advisors are drawing upon many aspects of their personality and human…
Descriptors: Classroom Guidance Programs, Critical Thinking, Discovery Learning, Educational Counseling

Habley, Wes – NACADA Journal, 1986
Eight challenges for the future of academic advising are discussed: the development of research to provide evidence that quality advising assists in producing positive outcomes; to arouse campus decision-makers to action, to defend the value of advising during decline and retrenchment, to elevate the status of advising, etc. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Administration, College Faculty, College Students
Lockwood, Fred – 1978
A discussion of the need for feedback on course quality focuses on feedback needs once the courses have been used once or more and no longer need initial evaluation. This is termed the maintenance phase of course production. Three central questions are addressed. The first asks why feedback is needed at all, and it is proposed that it is to…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Course Content, Course Evaluation
Campbell, 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
Meeker, Josephine P., Ed. – 1979
Proceedings of the 1979 annual meeting of the Association for Continuing Higher Education concerning the topic of lifelong learning are presented. The past, present, and future of lifelong learning and the adult learner were considered in addresses and discussion. Workshops addressed the following areas: integration and development of adjuncts…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Computer Oriented Programs, Continuing Education, Continuing Education Units
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1984
A National conference was held to examine State policies and practices for helping disabled youth make the school-to-work transition more successfully. The focus of the first day of the conference was on transitional programs currently in existence in Maryland, Michigan, and New York. The first part of the second day's activities involved the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Career Awareness, Coordination, Delivery Systems