This resource provides step-by-step guidance to teams who are developing, strengthening, or expanding a College Promise program. The Guidebook is organized into three sections that cover topics ranging from how to frame your College Promise program to evaluating and implementing it. Each section includes embedded tools and exercises to help you…

The current state of the art concerning the provision of continuing social education and recent expansion and pressures for continued growth through the 1980s are considered. Specific topics include: the continuing education directors and staff; the continuing education program (CEP) as an organization; the CEP's programming, funding sources, and…

Two decades following the publication of David G. Brown's "Criteria for Pruning Programs," (which recognized that traditional financial support to higher education was decreasing and proposed 10 guidelines for evaluating existing programs) a study was developed to determine what criteria are actually being used by comprehensive…

This study of the professional touring performing arts during the 1976-77 season sought to determine how the performing arts are programmed and funded by college and community organizations. The questionnaire, which is appended, was mailed to all institutional members of the Association of College, University, and Community Arts Administrators.…

Admission to and graduation from health profession schools by graduates of historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) were studied, with a focus on the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and Howard University's Medical (HUMS) and Dental Schools (HUDS). Site visits and interviews were also conducted with the pre-health program…

Information concerning international education activities at 15 Southeast Florida colleges and universities is presented. Twelve of the schools are members of the Southeast Florida Educational Consortium. A questionnaire was administered in 1982-1983 to determine foreign student presence, academic programs, contracts and grants, and administrative…

In 1987-88, a national survey was conducted to determine the adult/continuing education (ACE) policies and practices of large, urban community colleges. Questionnaires were mailed to ACE deans at 74 colleges, requesting information about program characteristics, funding sources, personnel, curriculum review, and marketing and publicity. Study…

The Educational Personnel Development (EPD) program provides training for educational personnel to serve American Indian and Alaska Native students. From FY 1987 to FY 1991, EPD grants averaging $2.25 million per year were awarded to 21 institutions, which provided academic counseling, direct financial assistance, and supplemental training to a…

This study was prepared in response to Specific Appropriation 577A of the 1991 General Appropriations Act, Chapter 91-193, Laws of Florida, by the Florida Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, of community college programs and courses offered in academic year 1990-91 to obtain an overview of the types of course funding arrangements which…

The impact of individual learning accounts (ILAs) on the success of learners in post-16 education sector in the United Kingdom was explored through an examination of available research on ILAs. The following were among the study's 12 messages for providers, the Department for Education and Skills, and the Individual Learning Account Centre: (1)…

Human Resources and Social Development Canada in partnership with the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation has commissioned R.A. Malatest & Associates to conduct the "Survey of Canadian Career College Students". The National Association of Career Colleges is supporting this research through the provision of in-kind assistance.…

Information about internationalizing undergraduate education is presented. Data gathered from the membership of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) provide a profile of the degree of internationalization of these institutions. Additionally, major means of internationalizing the curriculum and the institution are…