Occupational Training in Proprietary Schools and Technical Institutes

1974 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Proprietary Schools ◽  
Occupational Training ◽  
Technical Institutes

Peculiarities of psychophysiological adaptation of marine cadets during professional training in marine specialities

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel F. Kiku ◽  
Evgeniy V. Zhovnerchuk ◽  
Irina P. Melnikova ◽  
Natalya I. Izmerovа ◽  
Kseniya M. Sabirova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Normobaric Hypoxia ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
Occupational Training ◽  
Prophylactic Measures ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Intermittent Normobaric Hypoxia ◽  
Emotional Strain

Introduction.Occupational environment and occupational factors determine peculiarities in mastering marine occupations. Some unfavorable occupational educational and ecologic factors appear to cause high level of physical and psychoemotional stress.Objectiveis to study features of adaptation to study during occupational training in marine specialties in cadets of a higher marine educational institution, and to conduct medical and psychological rehabilitation.Material and methods.Examination covered 120 male cadets of 3rd and 4thyears of study: 70 (main group) and 50 (reference group). The age of the cadets was 21±0.4 years. To study characteristics of the cadets’ adaptation, the authors used psychological methods — Spielberger’s State Trait Anxiety Scale and Nemchin’s «Method measuring severity of neuropsychic stress». Statistical analysis was performed with software «Statistica for Windows 10.0».Study results and discussion.After 3 months of sailing, majority of the cadets appeared to be dysadapted. Deep clinical and laboratory studies proved that 39.4% of the examinees were apparently healthy and 60.6% of those had chronic diseases. Thus, a system of medical psychologic rehabilitation was designed, comprising primary and secondary prophylaxis methods. One of these prevention methods is a recovery complex of measures with intermittent normobaric hypoxia modified by us. The authors determined optimal regime of using intermittent normobaric hypoxia combined with medical rehabilitation.Conclusions.Adaptational state in cadets of high marine educational institution during professional training in marine occupations is characterized by increased psycho-emotional strain, anxiety and observed in 57.3% of the examinees. Findings are that after 3 months of sailing, majority of the cadets are dysadapted. To prevent morbidity and preserve health, the authors suggested a system of medical and psychologic rehabilitation including intermittent normobaric hypoxia with rehabilitation medical complex. The medical and prophylactic measures help to solve problems of psycho-emotional stress, lower morbidity parameters, prevent dysadaptation disorders, relieve functional overstrain. That preserves and improves the cadets’ health and forms an important stage in prevention of mental and behavioral disorders related to work.

scholarly journals Academic Libraries in For-Profit Schools of Higher Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 568-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinnie Y. Davis ◽  
Mignon Adams ◽  
Larry Hardesty
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Profit Motive ◽  
Proprietary Schools ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Proprietary Colleges ◽  
Considerable Controversy

For-profit schools constitute the fastest-growing sector of higher education institutions in the United States.1 Yet accompanying the phenomenal growth of these proprietary colleges and universities has been considerable controversy over the role that the profit motive should play in higher education.2 The literature of higher education contains increasingly more works about proprietary schools. The library literature, however, offers little in this arena. Through this article, the authors seek to introduce the library readership to U.S. for-profit colleges and universities. We summarize their history and their characteristics, and we explore reasons for their success and present areas in which these schools appear to excel. With regard to their library services and resources, we focus on issues of concern based specifically on our experience with academic libraries in proprietary schools operating in the state of Ohio. Finally, we suggest ways in which these for-profit institutions can address the challenges faced by their libraries.

The Business of Education: Home Study at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin in the 1920s and 1930s

2010 ◽  
Vol 112 (9) ◽  
pp. 2496-2517
Author(s):  
Robert Hampel
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Trade Association ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Proprietary Schools ◽  
Home Study ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Extension Work ◽  
Collection Practices

Background Correspondence schools abounded in early 20th-century America. Several hundred for-profit vendors drew the vast majority of the annual enrollments, which peaked at one half million in the mid-1920s. Dozens of well-known universities created home study departments to expand their “extension” work. The handful of good studies of the origins of distance education falls short of what we need to understand this popular alternative to traditional schooling. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study In 1930, Abraham Flexner ridiculed home study at Columbia, and, to a lesser extent, Wisconsin and Chicago. His denunciation of the mercenary spirit of home study reverberates in contemporary discussions of the entrepreneurial aspirations of American universities. This article places the business practices of home study at Columbia and Wisconsin alongside the work of proprietary schools to see if Flexner's criticisms were accurate. Research Design The article compares the advertising, sales, and collection practices of Columbia, Wisconsin, and the for-profit outfits in the 1920s and 1930s. The archival sources for Columbia and Wisconsin include annual reports, financial statements, letters to and from the directors of home study, and other documents. For the private schools, the verbatim transcripts of the annual meetings of their trade association are especially valuable. Conclusions Flexner's critique is misleading. Columbia avoided the excesses that swelled the income and marred the reputations of many for-profit schools. Wisconsin did even more to distance itself from the proprietary firms. The article ends with ruminations on the options available to universities when they undertake work in a field dominated by the private sector.

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