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Peters, Dennis – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1983
Reviews some of the steps taken at Shoreline Community College to develop cooperative programs involving vocational and academic faculty, including the creation of a Humanities Advisory Council. Briefly describes some of the cooperative programs, e.g., symposia on critical issues in higher education, guest lectures, and high school outreach. (AYC)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Muller, Katharine – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1988
Traces the development of the New World School of the Arts in Florida from a cooperative dual-enrollment visual and performing arts program involving Dade County Public Schools and Miami-Dade Community College to an independent institution. Discusses curriculum development, auditions, faculty, credits, costs, funding, scheduling, student success,…
Descriptors: Art Education, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Wimmer, Doris K. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1988
Describes Virginia's Master Technician Program, which offers a comprehensive coordinated curriculum in electronics/electromechanical technology that spans high school and community college levels of instruction. Highlights innovations of the project, curriculum design, advantages, and future projections. (DMM)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Greenberg, Arthur Richard – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1988
Examines programs designed to allow average students to pursue college-level studies in high school. Considers reasons that concurrent enrollment programs have traditionally excluded all but high-achieving students, and drawbacks of this policy. Describes three dual enrollment programs operating in New York City and reviews research on their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges
Godwin, Christine M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1991
Describes Orange County Community College's English department-administered, content area-based Writing across the Curriculum program. Covers key goals; project structure whereby English department writing consultants work with vocational instructors and students; sample program plans, workshops, and lessons; teamwork; support facility and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Faculty Development
Owen, H. James – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1984
Describes North Carolina's state-supported programs linking community colleges to industrial training needs. Reviews cooperative skills training centers, state priority programs, new and expanding industry training, and state legislative support. Reviews strategies that have been successful nationally. (DMM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Industrial Training, Job Training
Friedlander, Jack – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1980
Reviews documents available in the ERIC system which describe innovative and easily accessible lifelong learning programs in relation to policies affecting lifelong learning, educational information centers, cooperative arrangements with business, flexible scheduling, informing the public, and experiential learning. (JM)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cooperative Programs
McConochie, Daniel D.; Tschechtelin, James D. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1990
Describes Maryland's community college research model, whereby State Board for Community Colleges staff work cooperatively with a voluntary statewide organization composed of institutional researchers from each college. Explains agenda setting, procedures, responsibilities, project monitoring, identification and dissemination of…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Educational Researchers
Capoor, Madan; Morante, Edward – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1990
Describes two state-mandated programs for institutional accountability in New Jersey (i.e., Basic Skills Assessment Program and College Outcomes Evaluation Program), which function through cooperation between the state's higher education agency and its colleges and universities. Highlights research objectives, procedures, responsibilities,…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs