Describes the Housatonic Museum of Art at Housatonic Community College in terms of its origins; purposes; collection of 20th Century painting, sculpture, and graphics; contributions to the college environment; and safeguards of the art works. Discusses funding barriers to and benefits of replicating the community college museum concept elsewhere.…

Here's an illustration of what one South Carolina institution has done to make the tec education'' system work. (Editor)

Describes the College of the Mainland's "Learn and Earn" program, an educational retraining program through which jobless students learn new skills while they work on campus in jobs related to their current skills. Shows that the program benefits the school, while supplying tuition and living expenses to students. (DMM)

Describes library use instruction at Leeward Community College (Hawaii) which is coordinated with freshman English courses and which requires about ten hours of hands-on learning in the library. The program includes a library tour, and covers use of the card catalog, Library of Congress Subject Headings, and periodical and newspaper indexes. (MB)

Problem: public often ignores opportunities to utilize graduates of proliferating technical and occupational education programs. (Editor)

Describes Itasca Community College's (Minnesota) College for Kids program, an enrichment program for highly motivated students, ranging from preschoolers to eighth graders. Examines students, teachers, fees, on-campus scheduling, off-campus activities, courses, and benefits. (CAM)

Describes a community volunteer program developed at Mt. Hood Community College (Oregon) in which community members are trained as neighborhood representatives to provide information about the school, answer questions, and refer problems and complaints to the appropriate places on campus. (AYC)

Explains the operation of the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges Associate Degree program, which involves 50 colleges and the department of the Army in a program which assures transferability of credit among participating colleges toward associate degrees in 15 technical areas and general education. (DMM)

Recommends delivery modes that use mediated instructional systems as a means of attaining desired levels of student achievement. Cites College of San Mateo's use of instructional technologies to achieve cost savings, multiply program availability, and alleviate unemployment, underemployment, and a trained employee shortage. (DMM)

Cooperation between Lane Community College and local human services agencies has resulted in a partnership effort to produce a noncredit program which supplies the agencies with a retraining program for the unemployed and fulfills the college's purpose of service to all segments of the community. (LS)

Anne Arundel Community College uses the Chesapeake Bay for a flexible ocean engineering technology program which includes mechanical, electrical, and environmental options for transfer and/or vocational students, and adult education programs covering such subjects as sailing, Bay history, boat building, scuba-diving, and marine biology. (RT)

Considered the adult student in community and junior colleges. (RK)

Describes Hostos Community College, a bilingual urban institution. Relates the problems encountered when counseling cutbacks forced increased reliance upon faculty advisors. Explains the development of a Volunteer Faculty Advisement Corps to counsel liberal arts students, discussing in-service training, linking students with advisors, and…

Introduces a project celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of associate degree nursing (ADN) education. Reviews the efforts and plans of two national associations to identify and resolve recurring ADN issues and recognize the associate degree nurse's contributions. Describes the forums and publications planned to meet these objectives. Includes…

Discusses the competition between four-year institutions and community colleges for a dwindling number of students, and describes a Total Marketing Concept (TMC) with which community colleges can maintain their share of the educational market. Relates the experiences of four colleges using this concept. (JP)