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Anderson, Richard E. – AAHE Bulletin, 1985
Structural and economic problems facing higher education and potential new markets opened by continuing education are discussed, based on a study of 24 public and private institutions. Programming areas in continuing education are distribution requirements, contract training for employees of business, and noncredit courses for the general public.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Faculty, Compliance (Legal), Continuing Education
Gladieux, Lawrence; And Others – 1985
Basic information about the federal Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program, including its status and the level of participation, is presented, and policy issues concerning cost, equity, efficiency, and administration are also identified. After specifying six criteria for evaluating options for change in the program, specific options are listed…
Descriptors: College Students, Credit (Finance), Eligibility, Evaluation Criteria
Download full textCalifornia State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1985
The California Guaranteed Student Loan Program is described, and information is provided on the characteristics of student borrowers. Attention is also directed to: the effect of students' total accumulated indebtedness on their education and careers; California's default rates compared with those of other states; differences among institutions in…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Credit (Finance), Debt (Financial)
Schnittgrund, Karen P., Ed. – 1985
These proceedings contain presentations, discussants' remarks, roundtable discussions, and papers from poster sessions and panels. Selected titles of particular relevance to the field of education are: "Factors Affecting the Probability of Accepting a Retirement Incentive: Evidence to Support Retirement Planning Education" (Hogarth);…
Descriptors: Adults, Advertising, Conference Proceedings, Consumer Economics
Owings, Maria; Hill, Susan – 1984
The characteristics of 18.2 million persons who participated in postsecondary education activities are described, based on the results of the Bureau of the Census' October 1982 Current Population Survey. Included are: participation rates of population groups and an unduplicated count of postsecondary students; a breakdown of students by type of…
Descriptors: Certification, College Attendance, College Students, Continuing Education
Boli, John; And Others – 1984
As part of the Stanford Curriculum Study, information is provided on sex differences in undergraduate students' characteristics and performance. Attention is directed to the effect of gender on major choice, classroom performance, awards earned at graduation, and related variables for graduates from 1975-1976 to 1981-1982. A comparison to national…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, College Curriculum, Comparative Analysis
Thomas, Melissa L.; Makris, Barbara L. – 1983
This outline summarizes information to be presented in a child care consumer education course. The goal of the course is to add to the life-management skills of working parents by teaching them techniques that reduce the stress associated with child care. Sections of the course contain information on the disadvantages and advantages of the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Consumer Education, Contracts, Day Care
McElveen, Peggy C. – 1977
Supporting performance objective 31 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on computing the balance column amount in ledger accounts are included in this packet, which is one of a series. The student materials include a record of a…
Descriptors: Accounting, Answer Keys, Behavioral Objectives, Bookkeeping
Herron, Rex; Muir, John – 1974
The origin and development of Project NewGate are described from 1971-74. (The project presents a model program of higher education for incarcerated offenders, consisting of the in-prison phase, transitional phase, and release phase.) Specific project characteristics are discussed and include a 4-year academic program for prison inmates; an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Stull, William A.; And Others – 1980
Due to the expansion of cooperative education programs, critical issues facing them were examined. The issues as perceived by cooperative education directors were identified, along with their relative importance as perceived by directors and their immediate supervisors. The study aimed to determine whether differences exist between directors and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, College Credits, Colleges
Froomkin, Joseph; And Others – 1978
Current proposals to assist middle-income groups with college costs and estimates of the burden to parents in different income groups are considered. Reasons for discontent by middle-income and upper-income groups regarding college costs are considered in relation to the following issues: the demographic squeeze, the temptation to choose high-cost…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Choice, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Douma, Elaine L. – 1980
This document is intended as a tool to help teachers develop a competency-based consumer education curriculum. It first briefly discusses the need for a competency-based approach over a K-14 continuum. The major portion of the document then consists of lists of competencies on a K-14 continuum that are nonsubject specific. They are categorized…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education
Linney, Thomas; Ross, Kathleen – 1978
The history and development of federal student aid policies for higher education are examined in this paper, along with how current policy affects institutions at the campus level, and current and future policy options from which federal and institutional policies will be drawn. The historical analysis concerns the initial federal policy after…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational History, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities
Bourn, Ken – 1978
Students assessed as high risk at Essex Community College (Maryland) were paired by identical scores on vocabulary and reading comprehension tests and as to whether they elected to take a learning skills course (N=56) or to ignore advice and not take the course (N=67). The learning skills course uses a programmed multimedia approach and as much…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Age, Basic Skills, Cohort Analysis
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Community Colleges. – 1979
Data tables summarize statistics on community college transfer students attending the nine Florida state universities during 1976 through 1978. Data indicate that the number of transfers increased from 1976 to 1977, but decreased from 1977 to 1978. Males typically outnumbered females. Racial distribution remained relatively stable, though the…
Descriptors: Age, Articulation (Education), College Choice, College Credits
