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Department of Labor, Washington, DC. – 2000
This booklet presents 12 examples of innovative initiatives to skill shortages nationwide. The description of each one provides this information: the challenge, partners, the story, and contacts with addresses and telephone numbers. The initiatives are Communications Workers of America and Cisco Systems: Military to Work Project; Knowbility and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Auto Mechanics, Building Trades
Texas Coll. and Univ. System, Austin. Coordinating Board. – 1985
Information on the relation between the output of postsecondary education in Texas and career opportunities in the job market is presented to help promote career decision-making. Vocational and academic programs that are overproducing, underproducing, or in balance relative to occupational openings in the state are identified. The information is…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, College Programs
Hispanic Policy Development Project, Inc., New York, NY. – 1987
This is volume 2 of a two-volume series that addresses the critical need to forge closer ties between corporate America and Hispanic Americans. Volume 2 presents strategies for involving Hispanics in business. Techniques are given for developing businesses that will tap the Hispanic population as consumers and workers. The key elements of this…
Descriptors: Advertising, Business Administration, Consumer Education, Employer Attitudes
Ericson, Katharine – 1980
Solutions to this country's energy problems can be found through a combination of conservation measures and solar technology. Accordingly, this book provides an overview of employment in the solar energy and energy conservation fields, an analysis of related life styles and working situations, a listing of solar energy programs and agencies, and a…
Descriptors: Alternative Energy Sources, Employment Opportunities, Energy, Energy Conservation
Stein, Sondra G. – 1989
The Massachusetts Workplace Education Initiative was established in 1986 to create 6 model workplace literacy education programs and later expanded, with state and federal funding, to more than 20 programs at over 40 worksites. The initiative was developed in response to the growing recognition of functional illiteracy in an increasingly complex…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Federal Aid, Inplant Programs, Labor Education
Garfin, Molly, Comp. – 1980
A directory on unionization among college faculty for 1979 is presented. It is noted that faculty unionization continues to grow at a stabilized annual rate of approximately 20 new bargaining agents per year. By the end of 1979, 406 faculty unions were recognized as having bargaining agents for faculty and staff and more than 330 collective…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Contracts
Vaughan, Willard S., Ed. – 1989
This report documents research and development performed by principal investigators under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research Cognitive and Neural Sciences Division during fiscal year 1989. Programs are conducted under contracts and grants awarded on the basis of proposals received in response to a Broad Agency Announcement in the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Federal Programs, Intelligence
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Directorate for Education and Human Resources. – 1996
From 1993 to 1995, the National Science Foundation (NSF) support for two-year colleges increased from about $7.6 million to $35.1 million. This report describes NSF activities in support of two-year college science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education for fiscal year (FY) 1995. Following an introduction and overview, including…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Innovation, Engineering Education
Academy for Educational Development, 2007
The Academy for Educational Development's (AED's) work in the United States includes programs with many of the nation's major foundations on issues of education reform, parental involvement in the schools, youth development and bridging the distance between school, work, and successful university education. The projects described here cover a wide…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Parent Participation, Marketing, Educational Change
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED). Washington, DC. Div. of National Vocational Programs. – 1997
The abstract booklet contains 38 one-page abstracts of grants awarded by the Indian Vocational Education Program for 1996-98. The grants were awarded to projects offering job training, technical training, small business training, and job placement services to American Indian and Alaska Native adults and high school students, primarily those living…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Federal Aid
Wiencek, Ruth, Ed. – 1978
Information on financial aid programs is provided in this guide for students. The introduction discusses where the labor movement stands on educational needs. The contents of the publication are as follows: Meeting College Costs through a Financial Aid Package; How to Cut Educational Costs; How Students' Financial Aid Needs Are Analyzed; Low…
Descriptors: College Students, Directories, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA. – 1981
This third descriptive inventory of the Rand Corporation's domestic non-military research covers all projects since 1972, as well as its special 1969-1975 program for New York City. For each of over 300 research projects in nine program areas, brief summaries identify the project title and sponsor, beginning and ending dates, person-years of work…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Computer Oriented Programs, Crime, Drug Abuse