Mentors are essential for student success. In these challenging and dynamic times in education and society, having mentors to provide support is of even greater importance. This paper shares information about mentoring initiatives for female undergraduate students pursuing a baccalaureate degree in construction management program at a four-year…

College is the first special education licensure program in the country to require its candidates to participate in a year-long class which teaches grassroots organizing skills within a civic-agency curriculum known as Public Achievement. Interviews and survey data were conducted with alumni of the program and results are reported. Result from…

There is a current crisis in computer science teacher certification in US, which primarily centers around a growing confusion in licensure requirements. Some universities have created Computer Educator Licensure (CEL) programs to better address this confusion and to help train the next generation of K-12 computer science educators. The authors of…

Young women benefited from a network of "social cohesion and peer support," a form of social capital, which emerged from participation in a well-known high school robotics program. This factor was part of a larger grounded theory qualitative study using a foundation in career theories that explored the influences of the robotics program…

This paper is a report of the development of a systematic process for locating instructional design alumni and recruiting them to provide feedback from their workplaces. The purpose is to make alumni part of the process for program improvement. The process for tracking, contacting, and gathering data from alumni is described. In addition, the…

This survey of the Midwest Career Placement Association members (N=264) used an eight-page questionnaire to elicit responses to questions about the nature of subjects' career planning and placement programs and subjects' judgment regarding future trends and developments in career planning and placement as well as future emphases in their centers.…

A centralized, university-wide approach to collecting alumni information was established. The centralized approach provided information with greater potential for utilization, permitted comparisons among university units, and generated information on trends in alumni outcomes from year to year. All alumni in a given class are surveyed in order to…

Fund raising effectiveness in 10 types of higher education institutions and for four major donor groups was studied. Separate analyses were undertaken for public and private institutions of five types (research, doctoral, comprehensive, baccalaureate, and two-year). Donor types were alumni gifts, non-alumni gifts, corporate gifts, and foundation…

This study attempted to validate the use of academic growth and development items from Tennessee alumni surveys as measures of program quality and effectiveness at the University of Tennessee (UTK), Knoxville. The argument is made that it is essential that the instruments used to assess students educational outcomes be valid measures of the goals…

A U.S. Office of Education conference in Washington, D.C., examined the success of the Future Farmers of America (FFA). Report summarizes findings on four issues concerning the relationship between career education and FFA. Issues involve career education and FFA goals/activities, advisors, alumni, and in-service career education trainining. (LRA)

This study examined whether recent graduates of the Northfield Public Schools (Minnesota) had acquired the skills necessary to make successful transitions to adulthood and postsecondary education. Survey responses (n=146) were obtained from two recently graduated classes 3 years after graduation and from graduates of the Alternative Learning…