A 13-member Presidential Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities recommended that: (1) The President call a White House Conference and establish an Office of Women's Rights and Responsibilities, (2) The President send a message to Congress citing widespread discrimination against women, proposing legislation to remedy these inequalities,…

Interviews, involving approximately 275 individuals, were conducted to analyze vocational education and community colleges in the State of Iowa. In addition, a limited survey was made of career education programs in secondary schools. The findings indicate that the area schools are open to all Iowans of post-high school age, that the students tend…

This study focuses on the changes of organizational structure and instructional programs in the field of higher education in Korea since the fall of the Rhee government in the spring of 1960. Other periods of higher educational development are: Japanese occupation; U. S. Military Government from 1945-1948; and, the Rhee government, from Korean…

The National Workshop on Rural Development was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the American Association of Junior Colleges, and the American Vocational Association. The objectives were to help post-secondary schools find their role in rural development; to provide a forum for significant rural development issues; to develop…

Three issues related to New Careers have been explored among a group of college students who are in the main children of lower white collar and blue collar parents, including some with poverty or ghetto backgrounds. The New Careers program has two major components: helping the poor through meaningful employment and opportunity for career ladder…

This document contains the speeches presented at the Arizona health occupations conference held at Carefree in June 1972. Principal emphasis was on the need for cooperative planning for health occupations education, particularly in view of the trend to move preparatory programs administratively from health service institutions to the public…

This report provides the findings of two skills conversion research teams on the placement of displaced aerospace and defense engineers, scientists, and technicians in the fields of security systems and criminal justice. The teams, located in Philadelphia and San Jose, concluded independently that a minimum of 2,000 positions could be created in…

In its annual evaluation of the effectiveness of the total program of vocational education in California, the California Advisory Council on Vocational Education and Technical Training identified five specific areas that need attention and improvement, including: (1) the State Plan, (2) the vocational education reporting system, (3) programs for…

As a manpower development program, Training and Technology (TAT) combines the resources of industry, education, and government to offer skill and technical training to the unemployed and underemployed. This follow-up study is an attempt to collect and analyze comprehensive information about the post-placement experiences of TAT graduates during…

This study covers two related industries in which Negro employment has historical roots, the farm machinery and construction machinery industries. As in several other studies in this series, emphasis is on the major companies in the industries. This emphasis may reflect a more favorable picture of black employment progress than the average, due to…

This paper reports the results of a Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) prospective study, which are based on program-sourced information and second-round followup interviews with study subjects. The primary hypothesis that the NYC programs studied had helped enrollees achieve satisfactory adjustment to life and to the world of work was not confirmed,…

Developed through a research grant by educators from Western Michigan University, this package was designed for community and junior college counselors and technical personnel. The material is to serve as an aid in providing a more efficient transfer program for industrial education students. Much of the information is a result of comments made by…

A preliminary survey of trainees' pre- and postrelease interactions with the State Employment Service (ES) was conducted by the Experimental Manpower Laboratory for Corrections (EMLC) as part of an overall evaluation of Manpower Development and Training (MDT) program effectiveness at Draper Correctional Center, Elmore, Alabama. Measures of the…

The Rehabilitation Research Foundation (RRF) proposes to conduct, under supervision of the State Department of Vocational Education, a Manpower Training Program for Prisoners (MTPP) at Draper Correctional Center, Elmore, Alabama. The project is proposed for 13 months. The proposal contains several innovative and experimental features, the most…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a publication outlining the objectives and problems of vocational education in the United Arab Republic. The data presented include both the general objectives of vocational education and the specific goals of each type. The goal of vocational education is to prepare…