GAIN in the Community Colleges [microform] : A Report on the 1988-89 Survey / Jim Hill and Dale Rezabek
- Bib ID:
- 5516010
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Hill, Jim
- Description:
-
- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1990
- 37 p.
- Summary:
-
Greater Avenues for Independence (GAIN), California's welfare reform program, provides education, job services, and support services to welfare recipients to promote self-sufficiency and eliminate welfare dependency. In 1989, a survey was conducted of all California community colleges to gather information on GAIN participants, services, and funding. Study findings included the following: (1) about 75% of California's 107 community colleges had GAIN participants in 1988-89; (2) colleges reported nearly eight times more GAIN students in 1988-89 than in 1986-87; (3) approximately 58% of the GAIN students whose characteristics were reported were non-white, 84% were over 24 years of age, and 68% were female; (4) regular GAIN average daily attendance revenue almost tripled from 1987-88 to 1988-89; (5) almost 90% of the responding colleges had GAIN students in vocational education, 80% in ESL classes, 62% in adult basic education and general educational development instruction, and 56% in college-based counseling; and (6) many colleges and county welfare departments still needed to establish comprehensive identification and tracking procedures for GAIN participants, particularly for vocational and self-initiated students. Appendixes include survey data. (JMC)
- Notes:
-
- ERIC Note: Paper discussed as agenda item 6 at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (Sacramento, CA, May 10-11, 1990).
- Policymakers.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
-
- Agency Cooperation
- Community Colleges
- Economically Disadvantaged
- Educational Finance
- Enrollment
- Financial Support
- Program Costs
- Program Effectiveness
- Program Evaluation
- State Programs
- Student Characteristics
- Student Personnel Services
- Two Year Colleges
- Welfare Recipients
- Welfare Reform
- California Greater Avenues for Independence
- Other authors/contributors:
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1990
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Social welfare laws of Connecticut. Revised through 1945
- The Campus Volunteer Center [microform] : Mission, Models and Strategies / Mary Biittner Coburn
- "Responding to Welfare Reform" Conference (Syracuse, NY, February 26, 1998). Conference Presentation Summaries [microform]
- Paraprofessionals at Clearwater Campus [microform] / Milton O. Jones
- Counseling and Guidance in the Junior College [microform] : A Bibliography / John E. Roueche, Comp. and Natalie Rumanzeff, Comp