By creating new programs for special categories of students and special interest courses for the community at large, community colleges have more than kept their enrollments up. They have called into question traditional definitions of students, curriculum, and faculty. (Editor)

Notes the decline of humanities curricula due to the association of humanities instruction with transfer education. Outlines five corrective measures related to the utilization of interdisciplinary courses, increased liaison between humanities and community services staff, utilization of nontraditional instructional techniques, and the development…

Discusses affordability of developmental education, maintenance of transfer curricula and general education requirements, prospects for individualized curricula, developing a community education ethic, reconciling curriculum with students' course taking pattern, and organization of curriculum. (MB)

Curriculum and instruction are not given enough attention at the community college. Instructors usually derive job satisfaction only from their interactions with students, Deans of Instruction often neglect leadership in curriculum and instruction due to other demands on their time, and institutions frequently devise curriculum in response to the…

While the argument that community colleges are a class-based tracking system is unwarranted, there is room for improvement of the transfer function. Strategies for improving transfer to four-year colleges include transfer links between institutions in the same community, transfer centers, joint curriculum planning, and favorable state policies.…

When will community college humanists recognize that their classrooms are diminished, their courses ignored, and their teaching fields assaulted by advocates of other curriculums, not because the humanities are less worthy, but because the advocates of career and medical education, to name but two, have stepped out of the classroom to take…

Academic planning in the community college and factors that influence planning (faculty, internal dynamics, the community, budget) are discussed. It is suggested that community college planners examine programs to determine if they are: socially utilitarian, verifiably educative, and not readily available elsewhere. (BH)

In this book, a direction is proposed for the community/junior college whereby the college may better serve its students and community by employing current knowledge of effective instruction. Because the junior college takes pride in being a "teaching institution," the text deals particularly with the history and current status of curriculum and…

Four-year institutions as well as community colleges are concerned about maintaining the humanities in the curriculum. Several issues faced by advocates of the humanities are presented along with specific proposals for changes in instruction, curriculum, and patterns of support. (JMF)

The idea of general education has ebbed and flowed for generations. Recent calls for general education, appearing both in the professional and popular literature, demand an integrative curriculum that brings people toward common understandings. The content of what is taught matters less than that a continual effort be made to enhance social…

This document traces the influence of governmental policies on American community colleges, focusing on how different levels of government have affected the colleges at various stages of their development with respect to college organization and governance, finance, enrollment, and curriculum. The community college's main contribution has been to…

A discussion is presented of the role of educational leaders in determining directions and priorities in the fields of community, compensatory, and collegiate education in the community colleges. The first section addresses the colleges' failure to integrate compensatory education fully within the curriculum and raises 10 agruments as to why this…

Driven by the inability of traditional higher education institutions to accommodate the increasing number of people demanding postsecondary education, community colleges are implementing new modes of access to their programs. One of the most popular means of access is distance education, which promises education beyond the boundaries of the…

This report presents background on community college development and discusses four areas of concern. The first area is maintaining access for all students. Trends are toward tightening criteria for attendance. Colleges in some states will be forced to make clearer distinctions among the student groups they serve and for whom they expect to…

Recent research and trends in the humanities are discussed in terms of their implications for community colleges. First, initial results of a survey of students in Washington community colleges are outlined, including the findings that 46% of the students attended the colleges straight from high school and that the more liberal arts courses the…