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Download full textWeintraub, Jeffrey I. – 1984
A follow-up study was conducted of 922 graduates who were awarded associate degrees from LaGuardia Community College (LCC) in 1983. Questionnaires were sent to all of the graduates and responses were received from 417 (45.2%). Study findings, based on these responses and Admissions Office data on 118 transfer students, included the following: (1)…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education
Faddis, Constance R.; Long, James P. – 1986
The demonstration project described in this report was designed to explore the value of job clubs in preparing two-year college students with disabilities for the transition from school to work. The demonstration sites were Chicago City-Wide College (CCC), Columbus Technical Institute (CTI) (Ohio), and the Community Colleges of Rhode Island (CCRI)…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Holmes, Marion B. W. – 1988
The Education for Employment Initiative is a cooperative effort of the School District of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Office of Employment Security, and the Private Industry Council to increase the employment opportunities for students and assist them in making the transition from school to work. In the 1987-88 school year, two locations were…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Organizations, Dropout Prevention, Employment Programs
Horn, Adelaide; Drury, Stephen – 1980
This handbook stresses those components that are considered peripheral to the placement process but that must precede the actual placement. The philosophy of placement upon which this guide is based appears first. Discussions follow of the basic components of the process of training and placement of handicapped individuals, including a varied…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disabilities, Job Analysis, Job Placement
Bendick, Marc, Jr. – 1982
The federal government needs to provide employment and training assistance to help dislocated workers to become reemployed. Worker mobility assistance should not be focused upon as a major thrust of reemployment programs, since American workers are remarkably resistant to pressures to move to more promising labor markets. Efficient and effective…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Education, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Reisner, Elizabeth R.; And Others – 1983
A study evaluated the Projects With Industry (PWI) program. (Authorized in 1968 to provide funding opportunities to organizations for the purpose of assisting severely disabled persons in obtaining competitive employment, the PWI program has provided support to projects that involve private sector representatives in the design of placement,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Employment Services
King, Christopher T.; Pittman, Laura L. – 1987
This document is intended to promote understanding of performance standards in Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and Employment Service (ES) applications; to promote more appropriate use of performance standards in managing and overseeing job training and job placement programs at the state and local levels; and to foster the integration of the…
Descriptors: Community Services, Employment Services, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Crawford, Dorothy; And Others – 1987
Project MEAL (Model for Employment and Adult Living) provides a program for post-high-school preparation of unemployed learning-disabled young adults. Its strategies and interventions can be adopted for use with learning-disabled individuals still in school and with individuals having other handicapping conditions. The program's target population…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Daily Living Skills, Delivery Systems
Gordon, Elizabeth; Zamule, Elisabeth – 1986
This report discusses sheltered workshop programming and high school-level vocational training for mentally retarded (MR) individuals in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Sheltered workshops conducted by Goodwill Industries and Parc-way Industries were examined to determine client characteristics and the rate of placement in competitive employment.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Career Choice, High Schools, Job Placement
DeAngelis, Lee P., Ed. – 1986
This document was designed to highlight the activities of a conference dealing with careers in the environmental field. The conference was organized with the intention of helping college students, recent college graduates, and others to learn the realities of various environmental careers from professionals working in the corporate, government and…
Descriptors: Career Education, College Science, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Virginia State Council of Higher Education, Richmond. – 1987
A task force was appointed by the Virginia Council of Higher Education to assess the quality of undergraduate career planning and placement and to make recommendations for the improvement of these services and activities. The report of the task force is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 presents a short overview of Virginia's career planning…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Planning, Community Colleges, Counseling Effectiveness
Smith, Harland D. – 1985
This handbook is intended to assist vocational instructors in replicating the program to provide non-sheltered work experience to severely handicapped individuals. The first section is a description of the original program that was developed through the coordinated efforts of staff from three vocational schools in Kentucky. Included in the next…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Job Placement, Job Training, Normalization (Handicapped)
Terzian, Aram L.; Saari, Marjorie E. – 1985
This booklet is intended to assist employers and employment counselors in learning more about deafness. The material discusses the myths and stereotypes surrounding hearing-impaired persons and shows how, through accommodations in the workplace, deaf and hard-of-hearing persons can become reliable and productive employees. Addressed in the…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Problems, Deaf Interpreting
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1982
The Department of Labor estimated that 300,000 people would lose their jobs because of the termination of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA's) public service employment programs. The General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the Department of Labor's efforts to find permanent unsubsidized jobs or new training opportunities for…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Federal Programs
Donnangelo, Frank P. – 1982
The degree to which the City University of New York (CUNY) prepares students for useful lives can be measured, in part, by the degree to which its graduates are able to find employment. In order to assess the effectiveness of the newly developed counseling services of the Office of Employment Counseling and Placement at Bronx Community College,…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Counseling, College Graduates, Community Colleges
