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Scott, Ken; Sanders-McBryde, Tennie – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
With the retirement of baby boomers (born 1946-1964) looming, considerable discussion and research has been conducted into succession planning and the educational impact from the loss of these leadership skills and experiences in community colleges. To prepare for this eventuality, many community colleges have begun Grow-Your-Own (GYO) leadership…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Community Colleges, Leadership Training, Leadership
Rincones-Gomez, Rigoberto J. – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2009
Achieving the Dream colleges engage in a process of institutional improvement to increase student success. A central component of this process is engaging internal and external stakeholders to help develop and implement interventions or changes in programs and services that improve student success. To determine whether these interventions do…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Principles, Educational Practices, Intervention
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Spalter, Anne Morgan; van Dam, Andries – Theory Into Practice, 2008
Like other literacies (textual literacy, numeracy), digital visual literacy (DVL) is the ability both to create and to understand certain types of information, in this case visual materials created with a computer. DVL is now essential in many daily life and workplace tasks, from looking critically at newspaper images or TV evening news to using a…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Media Literacy, Computer Literacy, Educational Principles
Asera, Rose – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2008
Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC) was organized by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in partnership with The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to increase student learning in developmental--or basic skills--classes. However, their concern was not just the success of students in classes…
Descriptors: Research Design, Community Colleges, Action Research, Organizational Change
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