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Wrigley, Heide Spruck – 1993
A 2-year national study by Aguirre International identified effective and innovative instructional approaches, methods, and technologies used to provide literacy instruction for adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) literacy students. Adult ESL literacy learners were found to be varied in terms of literacy backgrounds and experience. Adults who…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Organizations, English (Second Language), Family Literacy
Rose, Julie Kyllonen – 1983
The roles of campus offices in matters pertaining to the finances of foreign students in the United States are described. The following responsibilities of the admissions office are considered: providing information on college costs and foreign exchange regulations to foreign students, obtaining information on the student's financial sponsor,…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, Budgets, College Students, Financial Needs
Goyen, Loren F. – 1983
A study, the fourth in a series of annual surveys, examined the characteristics of new students enrolled in the Department of Adult Education at the University of the District of Columbia from the summer of 1982 through the spring of 1983. To obtain a profile of the students' personal backgrounds, educational objectives, and career goals, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Career Choice, Demography
Office of Student Financial Assistance (ED), Washington, DC. – 1990
Final federal regulations through September 1989 for student financial aid and related concerns are listed in this publication. Regulations cover the following areas: family educational rights and privacy; Institutional eligibility under the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended; student assistance general provision; Paul Douglas Teacher…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Family Financial Resources, Federal Programs, Federal Regulation
Parker, G. W.; Anderson, Dorothy – 1986
Concentrating on states' needs for programs offered by institutions of higher education (IHE) and the manner in which these needs can be met and financed, the 3-part paper analyzes the elements included by "The Chronicle of Higher Education" in its ranking of states' suppoort of higher education based on the results of the Chambers…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Expenditures, Financial Needs
Foose, Robert A.; Meyerson, Joel W. – 1986
A key factor in the overall financial strategy in the public and private sectors of American higher education involves helping students and families pay tuition and fees. This is because expenses have risen dramatically, tuition fees have outdistanced increases in federal student aid programs, and competition for students has increased. Several…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Family Financial Resources
Baird, Leonard L. – 1981
Evidence about minority students' educational and career decisions, especially as they apply to careers in management, is reviewed. Problems of data collection concerning minority students are identified, including the following: methodological difficulties in identifying the race of respondents and in weighting procedures that may result in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attitude Change, Business Administration Education, Career Choice
Case, Karl E.; McPherson, Michael S. – 1986
The question of whether the availability of need-based student financial aid reduces the applicant families' incentives to save and work was assessed. Changes in the need-based aid system are also suggested. Need-based aid systems compute a family's ability to pay for college from information on the family's income and assets at the time a student…
Descriptors: College Students, Dependents, Eligibility, Family Financial Resources
Berryman, Charles; Schneider, Donald O. – 1982
The work experience of high school students is investigated, including type of work, amount of time worked, reasons for jobs away from home, effect of work on school performance and activities, and reasons for not being employed. The sample consisted of 1,227 urban and rural secondary school students in 14 Georgia high schools, 35.9 percent of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Females, Financial Needs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1983
The federal role in helping colleges provide graduate education is considered, as part of hearings on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The question of whether there is access to graduate education is addressed. Attention is directed to the following concerns: the appropriate balance between undergraduate and graduate…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Debt (Financial), Eligibility, Federal Aid
Patton, Carl V. – 1979
The impact of early retirement plans and career change on the professional and personal lives of professors and on the manpower and fiscal structures of the universities they serve is examined. The book is based on more than 50 accounts of academics who took early retirement options and a comprehensive review of incentive programs for early…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Age Discrimination, Career Change, Career Counseling
Wynne, Rowland – 1979
British higher education's response to the emerging adult education trend is examined in this monograph. Examined are the following: institutions of higher education and their contribution to the education of adults; educational access; mode of study; financial support; the need for greater adult participation; various observations on the state of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Boogaert, John – 1978
This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on financial pressures in various life styles and cycles is the third in a set of five modules on consumer education related to human development. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Competency Based Teacher Education, Consumer Education, Educational Objectives
Abrams, Irwin; Hatch, W. R. – 1962
Study abroad is becoming a legitimate and valuable aspect of higher education. This report deals with the general status of programs of group study abroad as of the academic year 1959-60 and discusses objectives and problems of accreditation and evaluation of such programs. Individual study abroad is not included. Four program patterns of group…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Students, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
BLAKESLEY, JAMES F.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE--(1) TO FORMULATE A MODEL FOR ESTIMATING FUTURE PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS CAPABLE OF EQUITABLY DIFFERENTIATING AND SUMMARIZING THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS OF INDIANA'S FOUR STATE-SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS, AND (2) TO DETERMINE AN ALLOCATION FORMULA FOR DISTRIBUTION OF AVAILABLE CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS WITH BIENNIAL PROVISIONS FOR…
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Class Organization, Class Size, College Planning
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