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Direct linkSylvester, Paul; Myran, Steve – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
This study synthesizes lessons learned about the promising role of "career navigators" at community colleges to aid students in the transitions through disjunctures in their careers. Career navigators are student support personnel who follow students from recruitment, through their studies or training programs, to job placement. Findings…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Career Planning, Career Counseling
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1989
This document reports the oral and written testimony of witnesses at a Congressional hearing held to examine H.R. 3266, the Workforce 2000 Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Amendments of 1989. The bill is aimed at reforming JTPA targeting and training efforts. It focuses on critical support services and targeting issues and includes provisions…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Bloom, Howard S. – 1990
This monograph presents results from a study of the Texas Worker Adjustment Demonstration, a 2,192-person randomized experimental evaluation of reemployment programs for displaced workers conducted at three Texas sites during 1984-85. It describes in detail: (1) the background, design, conduct, and content of the programs at each demonstration…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
Wandner, Stephen A., Ed.; Messenger Jon C., Ed.; Schwartz, Suzanne, Ed. – 1999
The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) was a program established in states by regulation of the federal government to profile Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients who were most likely to exceed their time limits for UI and to give those recipients training in job search methods. The WPRS Policy Workgroup was established in January…
Descriptors: Adults, Compliance (Legal), Dislocated Workers, Employment Potential
NAB Clearinghouse Quarterly, 1984
This document is the first issue of a National Alliance of Business publication designed to present proven solutions, cutting-edge strategies, and comprehensive reference materials and to examine in depth in each issue a critical issue related to public/private employment and training partnerships. This first issue addresses one of the most…
Descriptors: Adults, Citations (References), Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
ITT Educational Services, Inc., Indianapolis, IN. – 1984
A study examined management perspectives on retraining workers and educational alternatives for such training. During the study, more than 300 senior human resource executives from Fortune 1500 firms across the nation were interviewed by telephone. Of those interviewed, 84 percent felt that their workers are concerned about such issues as: losing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demography, Dislocated Workers, Educational Needs
Henry, Ann; Teschendorf, JoAnn – 1984
The Older Worker Project was conducted to provide employment services to unemployed persons aged 45 and older who live in the western part of the Hennepin County (Minneapolis, Minnesota) area. Although the expected result was permanent employment of the participants, the intention of this demonstration project was to refine service approaches…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Attitude Change, Career Change, Career Counseling
Hull, Glynda, Ed. – 1997
These 14 papers look at U.S. factories and workplace education programs to see what is expected of workers. "Hearing Other Voices" (Glynda Hull), argues alternate viewpoints are essential to create frameworks for understanding literacy in relation to work. "Discourses of Workplace Education" (Katherine Schultz) analyzes the discourse of new…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Vocational Education, Dislocated Workers
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1994
These Congressional hearings contain testimony regarding options for restructuring the federal employment and training system. Representatives of the following agencies and organizations provided testimony at the hearings: National Commission on Employment Policy; Health, Education and Human Services Division, Education and Employment Issues, U.S.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
