Descriptive and evaluative information is provided on Florida Junior College at Jacksonville's College Reach-Out Program, which targeted junior high and high school students in an effort to increase black student enrollments at the college. Introductory sections discuss the need for the program in light of the decline in the number and percent of…

Because of its Reach-Out Program, Florida Keys Community College (FKCC) has been successful in recruiting black high school students to achieve its highest proportion of racial parity in first-time-in-college enrollments (i.e., 5.2%). Through its Eighth Grade Visitation Program, High School Recruitment Program, and other components, the Reach-Out…

The Eidos Program, sponsored by the Idyllic Foundation, is a private community-based organization that, with schools and other cooperating agencies and sponsors, helps young people whose needs are not adequately met by existing instituions. The program, which was funded for six months by the Job Training Partnership Act, provided educational and…

Developed by Hudson County (New Jersey) Community College's (HCCC's) Task Force on Recruitment and Retention of Black and Hispanic Students, this report offers a plan of action for addressing the problem of declining black enrollment at the college. Section 1 describes the plan's development. Section 2 offers an overview of the HCCC and the…

This directory lists projects supported by grants and contracts from the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) of the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs. An introduction by Thomas Finch describes the HCEEP network and the results of a recent evaluation study. An overview section summarizes, both verbally and statistically,…

This document is part of a five-volume nationwide study of Nutrition Service operations and elderly citizens participating in congregate dining and home delivery services authorized by Title III-C of the Older Americans' Act. This volume contains the analytic report, which presents the major findings of the evaluation. Chapter 1 gives a report…

This document is part of a five-volume nationwide study of Nutrition Services operations and elderly citizens participating in congregate dining and home delivery services authorized by Title III-C of the Older Americans' Act. This volume contains all technical appendices and is intended as a resource document. The Methodology Appendix is included…

This volume is the second of two in a report on a state-of-the-art assessment which was conducted to determine the roles of school, academic, special, and community libraries in creating and/or providing viewtext information services; the information resources now available or expected to be available in the future to a sample of libraries in the…

The 1988 annual report for the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) provides information on enrollments, achievements and improvements, financial statistics, and the economic impact of each of the district's nine campuses. An introduction lists the accomplishments of the LACCD as a whole, including enrollment gains in the fall and spring…

Utah's migrant education program provided educational services to 1,027 K-12 students in programs at 10 sites during the summer of 1988. Nine of the programs were conducted in the summer only and one was conducted year round. Programs ranged in duration from 28 to 50 days. Students were provided with academic basics as well as cultural,…

In 1972 the University of Calgary began an outreach program involving students at the Stoney Indian Reservation at Morley, which is located 35 miles west of Calgary. Later, the program was expanded to include several other Indian reserves. In the fall of 1986, the university graduated the 100th Native student, many of whom had taken training in…

The philosophy, background, objectives, and offerings of Skyline College's Older Adult Program (SOAP) are described in this report. After stressing Skyline's commitment to lifelong learning, the report provides background to SOAP's development. This section explains how Skyline's Senior Citizen Advisory Committee was established to provide…

A project was conducted by the University of Southwestern Louisiana in cooperation with local adult education programs to develop a delivery system for adult education through expanded outreach opportunities using computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and computer-managed instruction (CMI). During the 3-year project, a homebased CAI delivery system…

Begun in 1978 to provide Queensland's South-West and Central Priority Country schools with a comprehensive maintenance and repair service for most audio-visual equipment, the Technical Maintenance Officer Service (TMO) serves 76 schools with total enrollment exceeding 13,000 pupils dispersed over a 469,000 square kilometer area. Two trained…

A personal account of the years 1970 to 1979 at The City College of New York is presented in the form of memoirs of the eighth president of City College, Robert E. Marshak. Topics discussed include: the history of City College, urban higher education, open admissions, the liberal arts, ethnic studies, professional training, biomedical education,…