This study investigated the role of personality factors in the successful and unsuccessful college performance of work-study students. (JC)

The Academic Internship Program for Handicapped Students at the University of California, Riverside, focuses on the multiple career development problems faced by college students with physical disabilities. The problems these students face include a narrow range of career exposure, lack of work experience, prejudice and stereotyping by employers,…

Describes Work Experience Program, job locator program begun by University of Missouri at Columbia in 1979 and operated jointly by university's financial aid office and career planning and placement center. Explains how work-study program offers students access to wage-paying jobs while providing local employers with steady source of quality…

Presents a definition of cooperative education on the college level and outlines some of the advantages a cooperative program offers to the student, the employer, and the university. (HMV)

THIS REPORT BRIEFLY OUTLINES PLANS FOR A NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PROJECT TO TRAIN 60 NEGRO, PUERTO RICAN, AND WHITE DISADVANTAGED HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES TO TEACH IN SLUM SCHOOLS AND SERVE AS ROLE MODELS FOR OTHER DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS. PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PAIRED, HOUSED, AND TRAINED WITH 60 "PEACE-CORPS-TYPE" GRADUATE ASSISTANTS.…

Cooperative education, the combination of periods of on-campus classroom instruction with periods of off-campus experience, is particularly well suited to the needs of minority students in higher education. At a traditional four-year college, minority students are inclined to confine their associations to their own members, both on campus and at…