As the fourth in a series of reports on a longitudinal study of over 7,000 students who entered 15 California community colleges in Fall 1978, this eight-chapter report profiles the students as of Spring 1980 in terms of: (1) demography, academic progress, and employment status; and (2) their distribution among 18 "prototypes," defined…

This three-part report describes the data collected during Fall 1979 in a longitudinal study of 5,892 students at 15 California community colleges. Chapter I describes the background of the study in terms of the research procedures used (i.e., sampling, interviewing, data collection instruments, data transmittal and analysis); goals and…