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Download full textSolano, Gina L. – Critical Questions in Education, 2020
This article describes a university service-learning program with preservice teachers who volunteered as tutors to teach in an adult GED program. The adult participants were involved in a local drug court program, which is a branch in the criminal justice system. Project Literacy Instruction to Further Education (Project LIFE) was developed by the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Higher Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Preservice Teachers
Modestino, Alicia Sasser; Dopkins, Laurie; Santelices, Claudia – Boston Foundation, 2019
Recognizing the importance of immigrants to Greater Boston and the value of English classes and other supports to building an inclusive and welcoming community, the Boston Foundation and the Latino Legacy Fund commissioned a study that explores the "return on investment" (ROI) for teaching English to adults who are speakers of other…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners, Immigrants
Kauffman, Earl – 1973
This paper focuses on the increasing number of senior citizens currently on college campuses. The author discusses some special programs made available by several universities to retirees who return to school. These programs offer special scholarships, counseling services, and seminars. Some of the universities specifically mentioned are the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College Programs, Community Programs
Teaford, Margaret H.; Zavotka, Susan L.; Price, Christine A. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2006
Even at land-grant institutions, faculty seldom work with commercial retailers on community programs. Retailers can help with outreach and engagement programs because they provide the "natural habitat" for consumers the programs seek to address. Allied health, family science, and interior design faculty at the Ohio State University…
Descriptors: Retailing, Interior Design, Allied Health Occupations Education, Consumer Economics
Bureau of Higher Education (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. – 1972
The progress of 584 Community Service and Continuing Education Programs for fiscal year 1971 is the subject of this sixth annual report. Tables reflect the monies expended and institutions participating in programs authorized under Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Other charts show the projects by geographic area, expenditures by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Annual Reports
Smith, Kurt B., Ed. – Connections, 1980
Programs that link education and work and implications of the 1980 Higher Education Act for the expansion of work-learning opportunities are considered in this bulletin. Considerations for designing and operating a program combining academic learning with work experience is discussed by Yolaine Armand of the College for Human Services in New York…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Higher Education
Mountainbird, Pauline – 1991
A Massachusetts family literacy project, the Northampton Family Literacy Project, is described, in which adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners enrolled in a community educational center in order to learn English as their children enrolled in a child care program at the local library. Both groups were involved in language activities,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature
Hoyt, Douglas H. – 1978
The existing sources of financial aid for the part-time and returning-adult student are described. Information is consolidated on the chief federal, state, and local government sources; community organization resources; and area educational institutional sources. The section on government programs gives detailed information about scholarships,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Aid
Selman, Mary; Blackwell, Margaret – 1977
A community-based program for adults learning English as a second language has been carried out by Vancouver Community College in British Columbia. The program, known as Neighborhood English Classes of the college, offers classes at accessible locations in the community to serve immigrants who are unable or unwilling to attend the intensive…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Community Centers, Community Colleges
Alberta Vocational Centre, Edmonton. – 1979
The Alberta Vocational Center (AVC) developed a portable competency-based learning system for use in non-institutional adult basic education community programs. The system addresses needs identified by the 1971 census which found 28% of Alberta's residents (over fifteen and out of school) had less than a ninth grade education. Administered through…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Community Programs, Competency Based Education
Cross, John; Della, Jennie – 2002
This document profiles selected people, programs, and ideas highlighted by Australia's Adult Learners Week 2001 and begins with these papers: "Adult Learners Week: A National Celebration" (Ned Dennis); "A Message from the Adult Learners Week Patron" (Peter Hollingworth); "A Message of Support from the Prime Minister of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Adult Education, Adult Educators
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2002
The following were examined: (1) the Department of Transportation's (DOT) efforts to evaluate the Job Access and Reverse Commute (Job Access) program; (2) transportation and related services provided by Job Access; (3) whether the program fosters collaboration between grantees and others in the design, financing, and delivery of those services;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Agency Cooperation, Block Grants
