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Ryan, James T. – 1990
This manual provides guidelines for developing and implementing employee educational programs with the cooperation of unions and management. It establishes the need for such programs by explaining the current and future demographics of the workplace, then suggests ways to determine the need for education in any particular company. Information…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Finance, Employer Attitudes
Beman, Richard R.; Parsons, Michael H. – 1978
In fall 1977, Hagerstown Junior College and the Certain-Teed Corporation initiated a business/industry/college instructional program to upgrade the skills of corporate first-line supervisory personnel and to increase the visibility of the college's associate degree Management program among local business and industry. Fourteen supervisors enrolled…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
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Bevelacqua, Joan – Community Services Catalyst, 1983
Describes the College of DuPage's Business and Professional Institute, which emphasizes nontraditional education/training methods and support from the business and professional communities. Discusses the Institute's assumptions, implementation strategies, and analysis of applicable program models. Explains the matrix management model that was…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Inplant Programs, Job Training
Barrera, Adriana – 1986
This guide for adult educators provides a general model for establishing and maintaining Adult Basic Education (ABE)-in-Industry programs. The model encompasses eight components, including the industry program and ABE program. The handbook, however, skips the two programs and begins with the industry and ABE agreement component, devoting a chapter…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Competency Based Education, Cooperative Programs, Corporate Education
Felton, Mimi Edge – 1981
Designed as a how-to guide in initiating, developing, and operating an adult basic education program in industry, referred to as Cooperative Adult Basic Education (CABE), this handbook is based on experience gained during the development of the in-plant adult basic education program at Planters, the Planter's Employee Training Program (PET). The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
Parkersburg Community Coll., WV. – 1979
The activities of the Industrial Campus Project (Ind-Camp), designed by Parkersburg Community College to provide business/industry plant workers with access to educational opportunities directly at the scene of their employment, are described in this report. This final report, covering activity from January to June 1978, describes project…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Community Benefits, Community Colleges
Moore, Allen B., Ed.; And Others – 1975
Third in a series of five, the document presents case study reports of site visits to cooperative adult education programs. The five locations visited included programs between: (1) Wharton County Junior College and Johnson Testers, Inc. (Texas); (2) Louisiana State Department of Education and B. F. Trappey and Sons (Louisiana); (3) Grand Rapids…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education
Murray State Univ., KY. – 1988
This handbook was designed to provide information necessary for school teachers/administrators to develop an effective and thorough short-term adult upgrade program plan for businesses and to provide advice and suggestions for implementing the plan. The guide is organized in seven sections, plus extensive appendixes. The first section introduces…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Course Organization, Education Work Relationship
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Adult Learning and Literacy Clearinghouse. – 1996
Compiled from information contained in the Program Year 1994-95 Annual Narrative Performance Reports submitted by states to the U.S. Department of Education, this paper shares selected information on recent developments in workplace education programs for adults. Section 1 describes programs that exhibited strong partnerships and collaboration in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills
Portland Community Coll., OR. – 1992
The Columbia-Willamette Skill Builders Consortium was formed in early 1988 in response to a growing awareness of the need for improved workplace literacy training and coordinated service delivery in Northwest Oregon. In June 1990, the consortium received a National Workplace Literacy Program grant to develop and demonstrate such training. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Colleges, Computer Literacy
Dowling, William D.; And Others – 1992
The Ohio State University, Inland Fisher Guide Division of General Motors, and United Auto Workers Local 969 formed a collaborative partnership in 1990 to train employees whose inadequate literacy skills made them unable to respond to the requirements of "synchronous manufacturing" (or "just in time" production). One of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
Taylor, Marjorie; And Others – 1992
Anodizing, Inc., Teamsters Local 162, and Mt. Hood Community College (Oregon) developed a workplace literacy program for workers at Anodizing. These workers did not have the basic skill competencies to benefit from company training efforts in statistical process control and quality assurance and were not able to advance to lead and supervisory…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Copeland, Scott – 1992
Workplace literacy projects were established at Warn Industries, a winch and hubcap maker, and Oregon Cutting Systems (OCS), a producer of cutting edges supplying the timber industry by Clackamas Community College (Oregon). At Warn, project staff developed functional context materials, delivered instruction to a math class, and implemented a basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Colleges, Computer Literacy
Burwell, D'Anne; And Others – 1991
Leupold & Stevens, Inc. and Portland Community College (Oregon) cooperated in offering special math instruction as part of a workplace literacy project. A needs assessment indicated a problem in basic math skills such as simple calculations on a calculator and decimals, which were used on blueprints. Operators, set-up workers, and lead workers…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Blueprints
Schneider, Ann L. – 1991
Interviews with managers and other staff were used to assess the communication and language development needs of limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers at Lattice Works of Oregon (LWO) Corporation. Task analysis was used by Portland Community College (Portland) to develop a curriculum for twice-weekly classes held before or after shift changes.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
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