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  <title><![CDATA[Filling America's Skilled Worker Shortage: The Role of Career Colleges (2008)]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[This report presents a comprehensive review of the U.S. labor force skills shortage by industry, and the role of career colleges in meeting the high demand for industries such as business and management, computers and communication, education, healthcare, legal and personnel, and culinary. It also contains an overview comparison showing which educational sectors are currently providing the training for the different specialties, and the increase expected over the next ten years of the number of new jobs resulting from growth and replacement of workers leaving each industry on a national and state profile basis. <em>Filling America’s Skilled Worker Shortage</em> is an important tool for education administrators, policymakers, investor groups, and college owners and operators to assess current and projected labor trends facing the U.S. labor force.<br><br> To order a hard copy, contact Jenny Faubert at jennyf@imagine-america.org or visit our <a href="http://www.imagine-america.org/05-publications-home.asp">IAF Bookstore</a>.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fact Book 2008: A Profile of Career Colleges and Universities]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Prepared by leading industry analysts, the Imagine America Foundation’s <em>Fact Book</em> contains research and analysis of important trends in the career college sector of higher education. It presents a comprehensive look at the for-profit and career college sector of higher education, as well as a comparison of public and private two- and four-year institutions. It also contains re­search and analysis of important trends in the career college sector, data on enrollment, student benefits and outcomes, career college student profile, default rates, return on investment statistics and job opportunities for graduates.<br><br> To order a hard copy, contact Jenny Faubert at jennyf@imagine-america.org or visit our <a href="http://www.imagine-america.org/05-publications-home.asp">IAF Bookstore</a>.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Student Financial Aid Study of the States (1998)]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The study examined state policies on providing grant and scholarship assistance to those students who chose to attend private, for-profit institutions. A list of state loan and grant programs available to such students was included in the report, along with the eligibility criteria for the programs.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[2007 Annual Report]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Imagine America Foundation's Annual Report outlines the Foundation's scholarship, award and program activities throughout the 2007 year. Specifically, our 2007 Annual Report showcases the stories of the many students that have been helped over the past year. Over 8,000 student lives were impacted by the Imagine America programs. To request print copies of our 2007 Annual Report, please contact Jenny Faubert at jennyf@imagine-america.org or 202.336.6743.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[2006 Annual Report]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Imagine America Foundation's Annual Report outlines the Foundation's scholarship, award and program activities throughout the 2006 year. For more information about the Imagine America Foundation visit www.imagine-america.org.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[2005 Annual Report]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Imagine America Foundation's Annual Report outlines the Foundation's scholarship, award and program activities throughout the 2005 year.For more information about the Imagine America Foundation visit www.imagine-america.org.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Ability to Benefit Students in Private Career School Education (1991)]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[This report discussed the issues raised by the 1991 enactment of a requirement that all ATB (ability-to-benefit) students had to pass an independently administered test in order to qualify for federal financial aid. Research indicated that ATB students had more of the risk factors that might prevent them from completing their postsecondary programs. These factors included being female, being a member of a minority group, having children, or being of non-traditional college age (under 18 or over 24).]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Profile of the National Labor Market and Implications for American Education (1992)]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[This profile analyzed the interlocking issues of changing labor market requirements, shifting demographic trends, and the need for a fresh educational response to pressing economic problems. The information was intended to help decision makers at the local, state and federal levels.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Degree Granting Private Career College (1992)]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Description of degree-granting private career colleges, with varying program lengths and fields. Included information about state policy and accreditation. This report found that career colleges are typically smaller and have more specific curriculums than other sectors, and concluded by emphasizing the need for more consistently reported information and a classification system for these colleges and their programs offered.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Alternative Educational Indicators (1993)]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[This report explored alternative indicators to replace or supplement institutional default rates as an indicator of college and school quality. The report suggested using multiple indicators, incorporating community and labor market conditions. Indicators must also be easy to collect and report, reliable over time, unambiguous and easy to interpret, consistent across institution types, and they must lend themselves to annual updates and trend reporting. The report concludes with a list of sample indicators.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Accountability Measures - Review and Recommendations (1996)]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[This report reviewed and evaluated different approaches to assessing postsecondary education institutions based on performance indicators, on both operational and political grounds. The report concluded by recommending the most useful and acceptable national performance indicators. These indicators can be used to assure that federal interests will be protected while schools and colleges are not crushed by unnecessary or punitive regulations.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cost vs Price Workbook (1996)]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[This workbook was designed to clarify the difference in both cost and price between bids from community colleges and private career schools to provide state-funded educational programs. The conclusion was that community colleges, which are already subsidized by the state, would appear to have lower costs for such programs, but that eventually the difference between their bid and one from a private career school (whose price would generally be higher) would eventually be paid by the taxpayer.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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