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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED145238 AUTHOR: Buchanan, E. T., III; Brothers, Constance F.
TITLE: Mobility through Work Experience Education. Final
Report.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 92 p.; Some pages are marginally legible due to print
quality
ABSTRACT: A project was conducted to provide women,
minority, veteran, and handicapped college students with a
structured cooperative education work experience which
would enhance career selection and mobility and provide
supervised employment in fields related to the students'
interests and academic majors while supplying the employers
with trained workers. Seventy-two students were placed in
supervised work training positions with fifty-three
participating employers during the 1975-76 academic year.
Both the students and employers involved in the project
evaluated it positively. Placing handicapped and minority
male students at work training stations proved to be the
most difficult task. One hundred seven responses to a
questionnaire mailed to 234 community college cooperative
education programs indicated that the programs most
affected by the 1975-76 economic recession were in the
east, south, and central areas of the country and that
there was an improvement in the economy in the first
quarter of 1976. Eighty-eight responses to an extensive
questionnaire sent to 400 local employers indicated that
they also perceived an economic upswing but hesitated to
participate in the project because they could not justify
hiring part-time student workers while laying off full-time
workers. (A project description; student evaluation,
community college, and employer questionnaires; and
summaries of narrative responses to questionnaire items are
appended.) (EM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Community-Colleges; Community-Surveys;
Cooperative-Planning; Employment-Patterns; Females-;
Handicapped-Students; Job-Training; Minority-Groups;
National-Surveys; On-the-Job-Training;
Part-Time-Employment; Program-Descriptions;
School-Business-Relationship; School
Community-Relationship; Two-Year-Colleges; Two-Year-College
Students; Undergraduate-Students; Undergraduate-Study;
Veterans-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Cooperative
Education; *Program-Development; *Program-Effectiveness;
*Work-Experience-Programs
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