Clarifies meaning of career education, awareness, exploration, and preparation. Lists eight components of career education program at Delaware County Community College: basic academic skills, self and career awareness, competency based programs, alternate learning models, world of work, work experience, relationships between college and community…

Challenges adult educators to provide the educational experiences and resources necessary for adults to handle life tasks. Introduces the "teachable moment", as part of a lifelong curriculum, which relates the tasks associated with each developmental life stage to appropriate adult education program responses and possible outcomes. (TP)

Recounts how Williamsport Area Community College and Milwaukee Area Technical College developed successful, well articulated occupational programs with good placement records. Success was attributed to quality of leadership, funding available, clarity of purpose, and support of community. (TP)

Advocates the pragmatic approach to general education, suggesting that the educationally well-rounded occupational student advances more rapidly and goes higher in his career field. Stresses the importance of "general education courses", which make the student proficient and knowledgeable in his field and "supporting courses" which teach basic…

Examines LaGuardia Community College's cooperative education program which stresses faculty concern with the careers associated with academic disciplines and the planning of educational experiences which prepare students to select and pursue a career. Advocates institutional commitment, a non-threatening faculty environment, administrative…

Describes Pima Community College's career centers which provide a focus for career awareness, career exploration, decision-making, and planning for students and community members. Clients determine their strengths, learn job-seeking skills, and evaluate community employment opportunities. Explores centers' relationship with faculty, internship…

Describes interactive planning workshops sponsored by the Department of Energy hosted by community colleges which select community leaders to review and comment on plans and programs for energy conservation. (TP)

Describes educational systems in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, touching on tuition costs, adult education programs, vocational education programs, folk universities, admission standards, certificate of completion, radio and television courses, study circles, no-grade system, and the international folk college. (TP)

Questions whether community colleges really exercise any meaningful degree of local control by examining bills passed in Michigan which place new forms of regulatory control on community colleges by the governor's office, legislature, state licensing agencies, labor organizations, federal agencies, or the attorney general's office. (TP)

Describes the growing awareness of the need for legal assistants which lead to the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges' paralegal education project, whose primary purpose was to develop, implement, and evaluate associate degree, certificate, and continuing education paralegal programs at six community colleges. (TP)

Introduces ad hocracy, an emerging alternative system of junior college government, which encourages informal student involvement, allowing students to participate in activities of special interest without demanding lengthy commitments. (TP)

Distribution of federal student assistance reveals under-participation in campus-based programs by two-year colleges due to misperceptions of student costs, unavailability of aid to part-time students, and lack of adequate numbers of skilled staff. Failure to correct these faults will have major implications for future community college…

There is growing concern over the development of student expense budgets in determining financial needs. No consensus exists concerning what constitutes a realistic budget. General guidelines for budget construction as recommended by the Keppel Task Force (National Task Force on Student Aid Problems) and methods for student budget development are…

A checklist of tasks for financial aids administrators and college presidents. Major areas for administrators include application processing and award determination, counseling, public relations, transfer programs, management, Business Office cooperation, and professional development. Suggestions for presidents essentially call for executive…

Thirty different high school and community workshops were held in 1975-76 by Montgomery College for the purpose of informing parents about student financial aid programs and application procedures. Knowledgeable financial aids officers, as information disseminators, can perform a valuable community service. (JDS)