Internationally educated professionals (IEPs) encounter significant barriers to entry to their professions upon immigrating. Obtaining education in the new country is an effective means of improving their positions. While universities emphasize the need to attract and serve adult learners and a more diverse clientele, the specific needs of…

If students see the curriculum as relevant, it is likely to attract enrollment. (Editor)

Attempts to validate the Parallel Plan of Cooperative Education, discusses utilization of student's current jobs in cooperative education, the practice of volunteer jobs in cooperative education, and the use of Federal College Work Study funds in selective Cooperative Education placements. (Author/RK)

An experiential educational model at the University of Lethbridge is described that allows for both employment and volunteer experiences, involves the awarding of academic credits and places the onus on the student to document the relationship between field experience and academic program. (Author/MLW)

Four hundred eighty-five postsecondary institutions reported to have liberal arts cooperative education programs were surveyed to: (1) identify institutional type and size, (2) obtain data on program type, scale, and scope, (3) obtain data on administrative structure, and (4) secure opinions regarding program success. A 52% response rate was…

Project ALERT was developed as an education for employment component of the Summer Youth Employment Program for the summer of 1983, and represents an effort designed to address several critical needs emanating from the high unemployment rate among economically disadvantaged young persons. Each of 200 participants spent two and one-half days per…

A 40-item selective bibliography organized under the headings of The Need for Programs, Descriptions of Programs, The Development and Operation of Programs, Reports of Evaluations of Programs, and Information Sources was developed to assist school districts in planning and implementing exemplary programs of work experience for broadening and…

The Center for Vocational and Technical Education reviewed 26 career education programs in operation in various sections of the U.S., finding seven components common to most of them: cooperative education, career guidance, placement, follow-up, programs for disadvantaged and/or handicapped youth, and in-service teacher education. (JM)

This study was designed to: (1) describe, in some detail, the structure and activities of engineering programs exemplifying different approaches to experiential learning; (2) identify learning outcomes using this approach, especially in comparison to the regular curriculum; and (3) clarify the broad impact of experiential learning on…

Ten alternative high schools serving a total of 2,750 students in New York City were evaluated in terms of their administration, programs, student body, and specific educational objectives. Three main types of programs were in operation at the schools. These included: (1) Remediation with emphasis on basic skills in reading, mathematics and…

Designed to give vocational education teachers actual experience in business and industry, this project involved the joint efforts of Eastern Washington State College and several government and private agencies. The project centered around 10 teachers selected from the various service areas of vocational education, who exchanged positions for 6…

Senate Bill 642, passed by the California legislature in 1973, authorized the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to conduct a pilot program in cooperative education involving no more than five community college districts for a period of up to three years. Pursuant to the law, the Chancellor has included Coast, Hartnell, Pasadena,…

This paper provides an overview of partnerships between corporations and schools in the United States. It discusses nine different types of partnerships, their purposes, their leadership, and what each of the parties gets from them. The nine types discussed are the following: (1) employers extending a helping hand in the form of the adopt-a-school…

Although student enrollments in cooperative education constitute only about 8 percent of all high school students, about half of all high schools provide such opportunities. In practically all co-op programs, the employer ensures supervision, on-the-job learning, and evaluations that will influence students' grades; coordinators have released time…

This final evaluation report describes and summarizes the evaluation findings for the 1976-77 school year of the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory (NWREL) Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program. Following an executive summary, the report is organized into five chapters, plus a separate volume of appendixes. Chapter I summarizes the…