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Beeny, Claudia K.; Garvey-Nix, Ruth C.; Rhodes, Gale S.; Terrell, Patricia S. – NASPA Journal, 2008
A university governing board's influence on institutional policy is undeniable. Educating board members about student affairs issues is essential to ensuring a well-informed, effective board. This study examined the relationship between student affairs and the board's student affairs committee (SAC). An 89-item survey was developed and…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Student Personnel Services, Advisory Committees, Professional Associations
Molina, Frieda; Cheng, Wan-Lae; Hendra, Richard – MDRC, 2008
The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project is the most comprehensive effort thus far to ascertain which approaches help welfare recipients and other low-income people stay steadily employed and advance in their jobs. Launched in 1999 and slated to end in 2009, the ERA project encompasses more than a dozen demonstration programs and…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness, Welfare Recipients, Labor Turnover
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Watts, A. G.; Hawthorn, Ruth; Hoffbrand, Jill; Jackson, Heather; Spurling, Andrea – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1997
Outlines the background, rationale, methodology, and outcomes of developing local lifelong guidance strategies in four geographic areas. Analyzes the main components of the strategies developed and addresses a number of issues relating to the process of strategy development. Explores implications for parallel work in other localities. (RJM)
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Foreign Countries, Guidance Objectives, Guidance Programs
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Stott, Kathryn A.; Jackson, Aaron P. – Professional School Counseling, 2005
Service-learning classes taught by professional middle school counselors and teachers can help middle school students meet comprehensive guidance program goals related to academic/learning development, life/career development, personal/social development, and multicultural/global citizenship. An example is provided of a service-learning class…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Middle Schools, Guidance Programs, Guidance Objectives
Jones, Charles A. – 1979
This practicum report describes the development and implementation of a comprehensive pilot middle school guidance program. Staff members reviewed the literature on middle schools in general and guidance programs in specific, explored programs in operation throughout the state of California, and consulted with members from the State Department of…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Decision Making, Guidance Objectives, Guidance Programs
Nanaimo School District #68 (British Columbia). – 1990
In fall 1989, the Nanaimo (British Columbia) School District No. 68 asked five people, selected from the school system and community, to evaluate the "Steps to Maturity" Program (STMP), a district-wide family life education and affective development program that has developed gradually since 1972. The evaluation team interviewed a large…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Educational Counseling, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Life Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services, Greensboro, NC. – 1993
Phoenix Elementary School District #1 began implementing its Competency Based Guidance Program (CBGP) during the 1991-92 school year after being awarded a U.S. Department of Education Drug Free Schools and Communities Programs Grant. The purpose of CBGP was to provide middle-school students with a developmental and proactive guidance program.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Coping, Curriculum Development
Loesch-Griffin, Deborah A.; And Others – 1989
This report describes Nevada's first systematic collection of statewide information about guidance and counseling personnel and programs. In fall 1988, 224 of the 315 school counselors in Nevada completed a survey covering: (1) personal and job related data; (2) amount and quality of preservice education and professional development activities;…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Certification, Counselor Client Ratio, Counselor Evaluation
Connor, Ethel Lynne; Wasman, Marcy – 1984
This study reports an investigation of the Secondary Guidance Program within the Dade County (Florida) Public Schools. Three components were studied: (1) program activities; (2) program management; and (3) program impact. Findings from numerous surveys and from a job analysis of guidance personnel were reported. The greatest number of concern…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Counseling Services, Educational Counseling, Guidance Objectives
Barnes, Keith D. – 1980
This resource booklet contains an operational appraisal instrument for use in evaluating the program effectiveness of secondary school guidance and counseling activities. It first presents criteria for exemplary guidance programs, which form the basis for the evaluation. Program areas appraised by this instrument include philosophy and objectives,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Career Education, Consultation Programs, Counseling Services