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Hudson, A.; King, D.; Combs, M. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2016
This brief focuses on the efforts of the nursing programs at Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas (PCCUA) to reduce time to completion, increase achievement, and enhance student support. To accomplish these goals, PCCUA involved healthcare providers, faculty, students, college curriculum committees, the Accreditation Commission…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Time to Degree, Community Colleges, Academic Achievement
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Haney, L. Richard; McClellan, Debralee – New Directions for Student Services, 2009
Frederick Community College (FCC) is a comprehensive open-door community college that serves the citizens of Frederick County, Maryland, the state's largest county by size and seventh in population (230,000). It is located in central Maryland, equidistant from Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The college's character as a learning college is…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Academic Support Services, College Instruction, College Environment
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Jones, Karen Kitchens – New Directions for Student Services, 2009
Isothermal Community College (ICC) is located in Spindale, North Carolina. The college serves approximately 2,000 curriculum students every fall and spring semester and about 1,000 curriculum students in summer semesters. The Student Affairs department at ICC is divided into 10 functional areas. Over the last several years, student affairs staff…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Community Colleges, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2005
The Associate Degree has been subjected to numerous demands and external pressures and, as a result, has evolved somewhat independently at each California community college to meet local needs. Most colleges in the system have developed Associate Degrees based on completion of a general education curriculum. However, current Title 5 language…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Associate Degrees, General Education, College Curriculum
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Layton, Elizabeth N. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1954
The continued interest in the development and improvement of general education programs in the colleges and universities has prompted the Office of Education to publish this bibliography for the period 1949-1953. In compiling this bibliography on general education an attempt has been made to include only articles and materials: (1) reporting…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Mattis, Mary C., Ed.; Sislin, John, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2005
Community colleges play an important role in starting students on the road to engineering careers, but students often face obstacles in transferring to four-year educational institutions to continue their education. "Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers," a new book from the National Academy of Engineering and the…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Engineering Education, Engineering, Community Colleges