This training manual, one in a seris of eight, has been developed to help state and local supervisors and teacher educators in marketing and distributive education to conduct a workshop on sex equity, as it relates to their future programs, for vocational education teachers and administrators in the marketing and distributive education service…

This training manual, one in a series of eight, has been developed to help state and local supervisors and teacher educators in trade and industrial education to conduct a workshop on sex equity, as it relates to their future programs, for vocational education teachers and administrators in the trade and industrial service area. The workshop's…

In July 1970 the University of California reviewed and made recommendations for its international educational exchange program for all campuses. The recommendations were: (1) foreign students should be 4-6 percent of the student population on each campus; (2) they should be admitted once a year, with early admission deadlines; (3) they should have…

An experience-based career education (EBCE) program for grades 10 and 11 in a community college district was assessed to determine the level of accomplishment of program objectives and those factors that either enabled or precluded their accomplishment. Program/process objectives addressed included expanding employer and community involvement in…

This monograph is designed to motivate and assist Kentucky vocational teachers in fulfilling their role in achieving sex fair vocational education. Section 1 describes the status of vocational education in Kentucky and the United States. These areas are covered: changing roles of men and women, composition of the labor force, undersupply of…

An evaluation of the California Student Opportunity and Access Program (Cal-SOAP) by the Postsecondary Education Commission is presented. The Cal-SOAP is a competitive-grants program designed to encourage cooperative, interinstitutional projects to increase the enrollment of low-income high school students in postsecondary institutions and to…

The College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York, conducted surveys about the image of the college with random samples of its students, high school seniors, high school guidance counselors, and the college's faculty and administration. Four similar surveys were developed. The students' surveys had three parts: demographic data, data on the ideal…

E-learning is the fastest-growing sub-sector of a $2.3 trillion global education market, and the market for online higher education is estimated to exceed $69 billion by 2015. One way to minimize risk in marketing and selling courses and programs overseas is to understand the environmental factors in taking programs to market in any selected…

This document presents the proceedings of the 2003 annual meeting of the Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE). These proceedings record the 65th Annual Meeting of ACHE held in Charlottesville, Virginia. President Allen Varner's theme for this annual meeting was, "Continuing Education in the Era of Quantum Change." The theme…

This guide provides an overview of the school development process. It is intended for anyone starting a new school, whether it be a public, private, or charter school, but focuses on starting a school within the traditional school-district structure. Section 1, "Getting Started," discusses identifying the basis of legal authority; building a…

The two two-page briefs in this packet focus on nontraditional careers and nontraditional students and how to recruit and teach nontraditional students. "What Do We Know about Nontraditional Careers?" notes that men and women still tend to work in careers that are traditional for their sex, although the numbers of men and women choosing…

The Precollege Summer Camp Opportunity for Potential Educators (SCOPE) project was a minority recruitment and retention program designed to attract academically challenged tenth and eleventh grade students into teaching careers in mathematics and science. This three-year project offered a six-week summer camp for 50 precollege minority students in…

This book views the modern university as a dichotomous institution. On the one hand, it is a distinguished and noble institution, dedicated to preserving and advancing civilization; on the other, it is amoral, hungering for power, and exploitative of the weak and powerless, with faculty and administrators caught in the conflict between the goals…

The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (Charlottesville, Virginia) conducted a project that involved training, basic literacy, collection development, tutoring, and computer assisted programs. The project served a population of 100,000-200,000, and targeted the homeless, workforce/workplace learning, and adult non- and new-readers. Tutoring was…

The Adult Reading Program, a project of the Mesa County Public Library District (Grand Junction, Colorado), involved recruitment, retention, coalition building, public awareness, training, rural oriented, basic literacy, collection development, tutoring, employment oriented, intergenerational/family, and English as a Second Language (ESL)…