Used teleconferencing to provide three-week long community college course on personality development, values, self-concept, coping, and communication skills to 14 elderly nursing home residents. Five participants chosen to illustrate diverse responses to class all showed increased involvement with others, gains in integration of new dependencies…

An evaluation of net impact of programs funded under the Washington State Employment and Training Act (ESHB 1988) of 1993, which provided money to community and technical colleges to expand existing courses and create new ones for Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants most likely to lose jobs. The evaluation focused on whether the displaced UI…

This report documents student outcomes in developmental English and mathematics courses at Germanna Community College (Virginia) for the academic years 1994-95 through 1999-2000. It provides data to answer three questions: What proportion of students enroll in developmental courses? What is the success rate for students enrolled in developmental…

Of 453 Donovan Scholars (persons over 65 taking tuition-free college classes), 294 respondents indicated that, despite high satisfaction, few potential enrollees know about the program and only a small number of highly educated and personally supported individuals feel comfortable enrolling. Psychological barriers appear to need as much attention…

Cultural competence has become a central social work tenet enshrined in the profession's ethical and educational standards. Few measures of cultural competence exist, however, in spite of an increasing array of religious, ethnic, and racial groups in U.S. society. This article develops a new measure to assess cultural competence among one family…

This issue, the second of a two-part series on gender equity, presents strategies that nontraditional programs around the country have found to be helpful in combating the problems of educational and occupational segregation by sex. Described in detail is the Outreach Equity Non-Traditional Program located at the Florida Advanced Technology Center…

A 2-year developmental project was designed to accomplish the following: (1) identify screening and assessment procedures appropriate for adults with learning disabilities; (2) determine training requirements for volunteer tutors matched one-to-one with learning disabled adults; (3) determine support services required by adults with learning…

The West Virginia Community Partnership Model (WVCPM) fosters partnerships among academic faculty, students, extension faculty (and staff), and community organizations to produce significant community-based student learning; increased university involvement in community service across the state; and cultural change that improves collaboration…

A collaborative project, called MainFrame, has been developed among local education authority (LEA)-managed Youth Training Schemes (YTS) in Bedfordshire, Haringey, and Sheffield, England, and joined by Liverpool LEA and the Wirral Metropolitan College. Such coordination of training programs can be beneficial for staff and trainees. Some of the…

The U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Special Services for Disadvantaged Students program was reviewed during 1977-1980 using a sample of 11 grantee institutions. Attention was directed to the management of the program, whether program goals were being met, and progress of students in the program. The program's goal is to increase postsecondary…

This paper provides a comparative analysis of postsecondary opportunity programs in New York State for 1973-1974. The programs reviewed are (1) Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge (SEEK), (2) Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), and (3) Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP). The College Discovery program is treated separately in…

New Mexico State University has operated an experimental field training program preparing senior students to serve as members of family home health teams. The author assesses the way in which the program has worked and reports on the program's evaluations by students and families. (Author/BP)

Provides top-rated programs (by university) in biochemistry, botany, cellular/molecular biology, microbiology, physiology, and zoology. Overall scores included with each program were obtained from 1,848 biologists who were asked to rate programs in terms of faculty quality and their effectiveness in educating graduate students. (Author/JN)

To examine the perception of instructors who teach in prison college programs, two studies were conducted, the first in 1993 and the second in 2003. Three areas of measurement were included in the survey instrument sent to professors working in the Ball State University's Prison Program, Muncie, IN. The first measurement was that of instructors'…

Evaluating existing foreign language programs on a regular basis is essential because program evaluation leads to more effective programs. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the modular intensive general English language teaching program applied at a university in Turkey by investigating students' and English instructors' perceptions of…