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Donsky, Aaron; And Others – 1985
In response to enrollment declines, Dutchess Community College (DCC) has developed and implemented a Concensus Planning process to facilitate the responsiveness of its academic curricula. The new planning process is decentralized and faculty oriented, which has led to a stress on curriculum development through substitution and modification. The…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Curriculum, College Planning, Community Colleges
Lewis and Clark Community Coll., Godfrey, IL. – 1992
The River Bend Tech Prep project was undertaken to develop a tech prep curriculum in high schools in the Lewis and Clark Community College (LCCC) district in Illinois to improve students' academic skills and eventual employment opportunities and contribute to the region's economic growth and stability. The following activities were completed…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, High Schools
Teahen, Roberta C. – 1996
Prompted by requirements of the 1990 Perkins Act and a growing dissatisfaction among employers with college graduates' skill levels, many schools have undertaken curricular reform through tech prep and school-to-work, with most of the efforts working toward the integration of academic content into vocational programs. In general, however, tech…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
McLean DeWitt Regional Vocational System, Bloomington, IL. – 1992
Emphasis of the Industrial Tech Prep Projects in Heartland Community College (Illinois) regions was on planning and raising tech prep awareness among school administrators, teachers, counselors, and private industry. To develop industrial technology tech prep associate degree programs, an organizational structure was designed consisting of…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, High Schools
Beckstrom, Edward S. – 1998
The Academy for High Performance at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois, attempts through integrated workplace education programs to develop empowered workers capable of functioning in today's high-performance workplaces and individuals who are empowered in the fullest, transformative, liberating sense of the word. The academy's…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Programs, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Tri-County Technical Coll., Pendleton, SC. – 1990
The project report that introduces this document describes how the Partnership for Academic and Career Education (PACE) project developed tech prep/associate degree program agreements between Tri-County Technical College and seven school districts in Anderson, Oconee, and Pikens Counties, South Carolina. The partnership resulted in restructuring…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Illinois State Board of Higher Education, Springfield. – 1994
In January 1993, the Illinois State Board of Higher Education, the Illinois Community College Board, and the Transfer Coordinators of Illinois Colleges and Universities launched the state's Articulation Initiative to develop a model general education curriculum that would be accepted as students transfer between the state's colleges and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), College Credits, College Curriculum
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Bragg, Debra D.; Layton, James D. – Community College Review, 1995
Describes a study examining the impact of the Tech Prep Education Act on the initial implementation of federally supported Tech Prep Initiatives. Based on telephone survey responses from all 50 state Tech Prep leaders, reviews findings concerning the funding of Tech Prep consortia, state and local administrative structures, policies and goals, and…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Administrative Organization, Community Colleges, Consortia
Adler, Laurel; Cragin, John – 1994
A study examined the need to include business-education partnerships in the integration of academic and vocational learning programs. First, literature dealing with the following topics was reviewed: the new economy, education and the economy, academic and vocational integration, the need for partnerships, and the history of business-education…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Career Education, Community Colleges
Badway, Norena; Grubb, W. Norton – 1997
This first volume of a sourcebook presents a framework for identifying best practices of integrating career preparation into the community college. An introduction identifies seven domains of competency critical for postsecondary students: foundation academic competencies, education for citizenship, job specific/technical skills, career…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Exploration
Badway, Norena; Grubb, W. Norton – 1997
This second volume of a sourcebook is a collection of 46 examples of innovative practices colleges and technical institutes are using to impart the seven domains of career preparation described in volume I. A table of contents in chart format provides this information: page, identification (model and description, college), academic level (transfer…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Exploration
Mount Hood Community Coll., Gresham, OR. – 1994
The Mt. Hood Community College National Tech Prep Demonstration Center program is described in this performance report. The report details the following activities through which the center contributed significantly to educational reform: (1) information dissemination (including distributing information packets to more than 2,770 sites, hosting 63…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Annual Reports, Articulation (Education), Clearinghouses
Brown, Jane A. – 1992
This document contains the final progress report on a tech prep implementation project and the Work Force Challenge 2000 Report developed during the project. The final report lists these major accomplishments: approximately 1,500 educators in grades K-12 were provided information concerning future global issues in the work force and the effects in…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Business Cycles, Community Colleges, Futures (of Society)
Seattle Community Coll. District, Washington. – 1994
This package contains a program description and miscellaneous brochures about the Seattle (Washington) Public Schools' tech prep program. The program description booklet is designed to show how a comprehensive vocational and applied technology program is being introduced at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle. Included in the booklet are the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Career Counseling, Check Lists
Cantor, Jeffrey A. – 1997
This book explains the process of designing, developing, and implementing cooperative apprenticeship, a form of structured workplace training in which an employer, employer group, or industry, union or other community-based organization joins forces with a vocational-technical school and/or community college to provide formal instruction that…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Admission Criteria, Apprenticeships, Community Colleges
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