2003 VTEA Title 1B Special Populations Collaborative Project

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2003 VTEA Title 1BSpecial Populations
Collaborative Project

• Who was Surveyed? Occupational, Vocational,
  Workforce Deans
• 2003 Survey of Programs and Services Serving
  Special Populations
• Database of Information from the Survey
• How to Information Extraction
• Activities and Issues
• Specific Charts

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The Database and its ContentsContacts for 108
Colleges
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Activities ReportedDedicated Staff for Special
Populations - Staff Development - and Career
Counseling Were The Highest Reported Support
Services
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Issues IdentifiedBasic Remedial Education and
Inadequate Funding are major Challenges.Other
Challenges Low Recruitment Low Retention
Transportation Problems
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Special Populations ServedHalf of the
Respondents Stated they do not Focus on Single
Parents, Displaced Homemakers and Students
Pursuing Training Non-Traditional to Gender
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Core Indicator Use Reported
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Core Indicator InformationThe Survey asked
Campuses to Check all that Apply
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Barrier Plans /Transition ProgramsWe asked
Do you have a plan to overcome barriers? We
asked Do you have a formal vocational
education transition program with your local
secondary schools to facilitate matriculation of
Special Population students?Plans to Overcome
Barriers 71 YesTransition Programs 54
Yes
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Languages Responses from 94 CollegesThirty-fiv
e noted Other Languages.
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Economically DisadvantagedIn this Special
Populations Category Respondents stated whether
they provided activities in 13 Activity areas.
Transportation and Interpreters received low
marks.
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Funding for Economically Disadvantaged
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Single Parents Including Pregnant Teens
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Funding Single Parents
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Database Information ExtractionResearch through
a Custom Filtering of the Data.We filtered for
Greater than Spanish, and equal to or greater
than either Sign or Tagalog.
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You may find the dB on the Web site www.casp.cc
Go to Resources File Resources
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Database Location on the CASP Web siteFile
Resources Special Populations Database
Statewide Collaborative Study, then 2003
Statewide Community College Survey.
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The dB Opens in Quick View PlusOpen your own
copy by clicking on the green X Upper Left for
sorting, filtering or viewing charts!
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Custom Data Searches, Filters and SortsFile
Resources Special Populations Database
Statewide Collaborative Study Filtering Data
in the Special Populations Database
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Database also Available on www.vteabp.org

• Survey, Database and Presentation by Russell C.
  Thompson and Associates.
• 888-719-2050
• russthompson_care_at_hotmail.com