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Dale, Dorothy; Klitzke, Elizabeth – 1981
Prepared to aid decision makers at local, state, and national levels in planning and assessing vocational education in Wisconsin, this composite report presents data from the first phase of the evaluation system of secondary vocational education--the Self Evaluation Phase. Chapter 1 overviews the evaluation activities and the remainder of this…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Employer Attitudes
Riley, Roberta D.; Huffman, Gail M. – 1981
A summer Career Guidance Institute, conducted for graduate credit, placed 16 secondary teachers in entry-level positions in jobs not requiring college education for six weeks. The teachers worked four days a week and attended seminars and group discussions one day a week. Study of this pilot program was conducted to investigate three questions:…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Employer Attitudes, Employment Experience
Johnson, Kimble Leon – 1981
Full-time and part-time undergraduate enrollments in 15 public universities in Alabama were projected by sex for 1981-89. Additionally, state, regional, and national projections of undergraduate enrollments for the 1980s are made, based on a review of the literature. Alabama public high school graduates are projected in order to project full-time,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment Projections, Enrollment Trends
Download full textWichowski, Chester P.; DuMond, Doreen C. – 1980
A pilot study was conducted to identify sex role factors which could affect the search for employment and the adjustment to employment for vocational graduates in selected occupational areas. Target employment areas were identified through a review of occupations with a disproportionate composition by one sex or the other. These included…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Davison, Richard L. – 1980
Projections for North Dakota postsecondary education enrollment for the 1980s are presented. Attention is directed to population-related factors such as the number of live births, patterns of migration, elementary school enrollment, the number of high school graduates, and the size of the adult population. Other factors affecting postsecondary…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, College Students, Elementary School Students, Enrollment Projections
McKinney, Floyd L.; Halasz-Salster, Ida – 1981
A comprehensive literature review and case studies of three community colleges and one technical institute were conducted as part of a study to determine the economic and educational factors which relate positively or negatively to the successful placement of students who have completed postsecondary vocational programs. Data gathered through…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Characteristics, Community Colleges, Economic Development
Budd, Diane M. – 1981
Phase 2 of a three-phase project examined the secondary education background and employment adjustment of handicapped youth in rural counties in Florida. (Phase 1 was a pilot study.) Subjects were former special education students in five rural project counties who had been identified as needing services in the area of educable mental retardation,…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Background, Emotional Disturbances, Employment Patterns
Campos-Arcia, Maria; McVay, Julie – 1978
A study was conducted to identify the variables that are relevant to the admission of foreign students by institutional decision-makers. A profile of foreign students at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is provided. All academic departments at NCSU at Raleigh with enrollments of 10 or more foreign graduate students were contacted to…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrators, Admission Criteria, College Admission
Abramowitz, Susan – 1978
Successful performance on the California High School Proficiency Examination (CHSPE) gives high school students the option of leaving school early with the equivalent of a high school diploma. After two years and eight CHSPE administrations, the number of participating students remains low. Possible reasons for this are given, including lack of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Equivalency Tests, Graduation Requirements, High School Graduates
Griffith, William S. – 1978
To determine the posture of adult/continuing education (ACE) graduate programs, a questionnaire was developed. The questionnaire first provided comparative data for ascertaining the number of faculty members and students in ACE departments and in the entire colleges of education for autumn of 1973 and 1978 and second provided information on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Attitude Change, Departments
Cahill, Virginia M. – 1978
A study was conducted to examine whether age is one characteristic used by law schools in selecting applicants. Data were obtained on 76,06l registrants for the 1975-76 law school application year. Constraints of the analyses reduced the sample to 43,180. An explanatory model of decision-making in the law school admissions process was formulated…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Age, Age Discrimination, College Applicants
Lopez, Enrique Hank – 1979
Harvard University's effect on American life is examined through investigation of its pervasive mystique, magnitude of power, fallacies, controversies, and its ramifications on both the national and international scenes. Viewed from its modest beginning in 1638 to the present, Harvard is described as "a multinational academic conglomerate,…
Descriptors: Alumni, Bias, College Environment, College Graduates
Nespoli, Lawrence A.; Nair, P. C. – 1979
An employer follow-up study was conducted by Howard Community College (HCC) in May, 1979, to determine the job performance of the HCC 1978 occupational program graduates. Only the employers of occupational graduates in full-time jobs related to their program of study were involved. These employers were asked, on a specially prepared questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Graduates, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Robertshaw, Dianne; Wolfle, Lee M. – 1980
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) including the 1976 follow-up were used to examine the effects of interrupting or delaying school attendance on the eventual educational attainment of white male students. Background variables include socioeconomic and other family characteristics. Achievement test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Dropouts
Clagett, Craig A. – 1980
The criminal justice curriculum at Prince George's Community College emphasizes a broad social science education, designed to prepare students for immediate employment in law enforcement or for transfer to a four-year program. Program enrollments and student credit hours showed a similar pattern of growth in the mid-1970's, followed by a recent…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Dropout Rate, Employer Attitudes
