The Program to Attract Minority Youth to Careers in Engineering and Technology (Project PACE) was designed to bring together minority youth from area high schools with role models recruited from area industries in a program providing vocational guidance, career exploration, and tutorial assistance in mathematics and science with an emphasis on…

The focus of the Working Parents Project (WPP) has been on how families adapt and function in relation to workplace policies, with particular attention given to the participation of parents in contexts of child care and socialization, including education-related activities. This report builds on previous data from the WPP by expanding the sample…

This booklet is a description of a model program developed to improve the status of transitional black women in the southeastern United States. These women are defined as under- or unemployed, poor, undereducated, migrant, or household heads, unaware of specialized educational and occupational opportunities available to them, and/or unable to take…

Market saturation and diminishing opportunities are imminent in fields heavily favored by blacks in college: the social sciences, home economics and education. Future opportunities will come in fields presently unpopular or unknown to blacks: engineering, accounting, library science, urban and regional planning, health professions, and computer…

In this paper the interrelationships among income, health, education, employment and crime in the nation's metropolitan areas are explored in the context of recent and current trends in housing, transportation and urban growth policy. The central role of inner city schools in these phenomena is assessed. Alternative metropolitan strategies for…

Based on information from supplementary questions in the March 1976 Current Population Survey, the report presents data which indicate that women are contributing increasingly to family incomes. Analysis of the information reveals that the marital composition of the American labor force has changed significantly since 1970. A rapidly growing youth…

Data on the achievement of 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old Hispanos in school in the areas of social studies, science, mathematics, career and occupational development (COD), and reading were collected between fall of 1971 and spring of 1975. Results were examined in relation to the achievement levels of students in the nation as a whole and those of…

This booklet contains 14 series of data tables providing comprehensive information on enrollments in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) for fall quarter, 1978. Within the tables data are provided on student enrollments by race; sex; full-/part-time status; type of program; type of award; first-time/continuing student status; credit hours…

This volume presents three case studies of Teacher Corps Youth Advocacy Projects. The three projects selected represent the diversity inherent in Teacher Corps in setting, population, local education agency sites, and theoretical approach to the education of troubled youth. The focus of the study of the Arizona State University Project, which is…

This handbook for program coordinators in public postsecondary vocational-technical schools presents guidelines for establishing programs to prepare adult women for nontraditional occupations (NTOs). It focuses on recruiting, retaining, and placing women in NTO programs. Chapter 1 provides definitions and looks at need for NTO programs. Planning…

The current status of women and minority faculty is briefly reviewed, and alternative explanations for patterns of differences that exist are identified. Although female faculty have gained in their proportionate representation during the 1970s, they still lag behind their strength of a half century ago. In addition, female scholars tend to be…

Although both desegregation and bilingual education ideally aim at the goal of equal and equitable educational opportunities for minority youngsters, the initial impetus of bilingual education differs distinctly from desegregation in that the bilingual approach requires separate special treatment. The degree of divergence between desegregation and…

Based on the current definition for farm population (all persons living in rural territory or places which in the reporting year had, or normally would have had, sales of agricultural products of $1,000 or more), an average of 6,051,000 persons, or 2.7% of the total population lived on farms in the United States in 1980, a drop of 190,000 below…

The demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and career plans of medical students in the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) scholarship program from 1973-1974 through 1979-80 were examined. Where possible, comparisons were made between NHSC participants and the U.S. medical student population. Major findings are as follows: individuals…

A survey was conducted at Austin Community College (ACC) to determine why students who were previously enrolled chose not to re-enroll after completing at least 12 semester units. Of the 1,641 non-returning students who were sent questionnaires, 449 responded. Survey data on students' level of satisfaction with ACC, their employment status, and…