With an emphasis on planning and cutting costs to make better use of resources, facilities managers at community colleges across the nation have undertaken facilities audits usually with the help of outside engineers. Such assessments analyze the history and structural integrity of buildings and core components on campus, including heating…

Colleges increasingly rely on the Web to attract, inform, and interact with students. This makes Web site accessibility and usability critical concerns, particularly for public community colleges, which educate sizable numbers of students with disabilities. As committed providers of postsecondary education to students with disabilities and thus a…

Considers the measurement of institutional effectiveness an opportunity for college renewal, clarification of college mission, improvement of work environments, and enhancement of an institution's reputation. Defines institutional effectiveness and discusses how it can be measured, listing a number of indicators of how well a college is performing…

Describes background to the increasing pressure for instructional effectiveness in higher education and community colleges, particularly. Reviews differences between traditional discipline- and newer competency-based processes for measuring effectiveness and suggests methods for involving faculty in setting standards. Indicates that the integrity…

Reviews problems of using traditional assessment procedures and instruments on nonnative students, citing linguistic and cultural factors. Drawing from interviews with nonnative students, describes assessment procedures utilized abroad, reports nonnatives' perceptions of assessment in United States as limited and insufficient, and offers…