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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Program Evaluation and Methodology Div. – 1990
The study examined early tuition-guarantee programs for disadvantaged students to determine their characteristics, key issues, and effectiveness. The study found four different types of programs: (1) sponsorship programs in which one individual or organization provides intensive academic help, mentoring, and other services to a small, broad-based…
Descriptors: College Programs, Disadvantaged, Donors, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWerther, William B., Jr. – Employee Relations, 1985
After describing the history of Ford Motor Company's relationship with workers from the inception of the assembly line through recent years, the author describes results of the 1979 National Joint Committee on Employee Involvement and 1982 labor negotiations, which resulted in retraining projects, tuition assistance, and career counseling and…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Counseling Services, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
1980
This volume is one of the products of the "knowledge development" effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. It describes the Career Advancement Voucher Demonstration, which tests whether Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)-eligible youth can be effectively served by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance
Gilmore, Robert J.; Marsh, Susan-Marie; Garza, Sylvia – 1999
This report presents a synopsis of grants awarded by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs from FY 1990 through 1999 to encourage the further development of skilled doctoral and postdoctoral level special educators and related services personnel. Doctoral level training grants typically propose programming for the preparation of a truly…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Wirtz, Willard – 1979
This monograph presents a summary and analysis of case study reports on three highly used tuition assistance programs. The programs are those of the Education Fund of District Council 37 of AFSCME; Polaroid Corporation's Tuition Assistance Plan; and the Education Opportunities Plan of Kimberly-Clark Corporation. The case studies describe the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship
Rosow, Leslie A. – 1979
Adult Americans have been participating in formal education and training programs in record numbers in recent years. Yet studies of participation by working Americans in tuition assistance programs have consistently revealed that few take advantage of them. This report describes and analyzes the Kimberly-Clark Corporation's tuition-assistance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship
Education Fund of District Council 37: A Case Study. Worker Education and Training Policies Project.
Shore, Jane – 1979
This report describes and analyzes the programs of the Education Fund of District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in New York City. The Education Fund is a program carried out by the union to provide a wide variety of educational curricula, many on its premises, for the union's thousands of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Case Studies
Butcher, Loretta J. – 1980
In order to investigate state-wide and institutional policies governing tuition waivers for older adult students at two-year colleges, a nationwide study was conducted, involving: (1) a literature review; (2) a survey of the state administrators of community colleges; (3) a survey of 146 institutions with tuition waiver policies; and (4)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Credit Courses, Educational Finance, Educational Needs
