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Carolyn Casale; Sherry Clippert-deVogel; Cynthia Scheuer – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
A diverse stakeholder partnership led to the development of a Pre-Elementary Education program through its collaboration among faculty, academic advisement, and administration across higher education institutions. Housed at an institution that serves a minority population, this collaboration led to offering an Associate of Arts degree that is…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Associate Degrees, Partnerships in Education, Minority Group Students
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2018
The most important components of an academic institution are the educational programs it offers. California Education Code and accreditation standards emphasize the essential nature of a college's educational programs to that college's existence, and often a college's programs reflect the individual personality of the college and the uniqueness of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Program Development, Educational Practices, Curriculum Development
McAllister, Annemarie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The development of the Associate Degree model for the education of nurses (ADN) in the United States is a significant milestone for the nursing profession. The purpose of this historical study was to examine how nurse leaders developed the model in the 1950s and to explore the contextual factors that fueled the growth of the model. Emphasis was…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Associate Degrees, Educational History, Educational Development
MacGillivray, W. R. – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2013
Southern Cross University (SCU) has established a pathways college to increase access to and widen participation in higher education for people in regional areas of Australia. While many Australian universities have preparatory colleges associated with them, SCU College has been designed to make it unique in the sector. SCU College will operate…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Transitional Programs, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Pagano, Todd; Ross, Annemarie D.; O'Neill, George J. – Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities, 2012
A goal of the Laboratory Science Technology program at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology, is to produce graduates with strong foundations in applied science, hands-on laboratory applications, and "soft skills" necessary for competitive employment as laboratory technicians.…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Deafness, Partial Hearing, Science Education
Daale, Hans – Community College Review, 2010
Since 2006, the Netherlands has been actively engaged in a process of developing, piloting, and institutionalizing a new 2-year, short-cycle higher education degree, titled the "associate degree". This initiative evolved as a collaborative grassroots effort spearheaded by several Dutch national higher education and business organizations…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Associate Degrees, Foreign Countries
Rochford, Joseph A. – Stark Education Partnership, 2010
In 2005, the Canton City Schools (CCS), Stark College of Technology (SSCT), Canton Professional Educators Association (CPEA) and the Stark Education Partnership (SEP) came together to found Canton's Early College High School (CECHS). The goal of CECHS is to allow students an opportunity to earn both a diploma and an Associate Degree during their…
Descriptors: High Schools, College Credits, Associate Degrees, Acceleration (Education)
Kember, David – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
Hong Kong has moved from elite to mass post-secondary education in a very short space of time and at little cost to the Government. Most of this spectacular expansion in participation has come through enrolments in 2 year associate degrees in recently founded community colleges, which have self-financing status. The achievement has been clouded by…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Employment, Associate Degrees, Articulation (Education)
Longhurst, Derek – Community College Review, 2010
This chapter traces the history, purposes, and distinctive features of the foundation degree, a short-cycle higher education qualification introduced in England in 2000-2001 and offered by both universities and further education colleges. The key characteristics of the foundation degree are discussed: employer involvement in curriculum development…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship
Chandler, Lynette – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to analyze how tribal colleges and Universities have transitioned from two-year associate degree granting institutions to offering four-year bachelor degree granting institutions. This case study includes three tribal colleges: Sitting Bull College, Salish Kootenai College and Turtle Mountain…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, American Indians, Associate Degrees, Case Studies

Wright, Marguerite – Community and Junior College Journal, 1983
Discusses two developments in 1982 serving as encouragement for those fearing that humanities education is being neglected: the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges "Concept Statement on Humanities" and the Associate Degree Research Project, which will redefine the associate degree. (DMM)
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Educational Development, Educational Planning
Morgan, Arthur; Jones, Norah; Fitzgibbon, Karen – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2004
Work undertaken on the development of Foundation degrees at the University of Glamorgan directly addressed employer and higher education concerns that the new award should aim to build on, and not reinvent, the HNC/HND awards it sought to replace. One of the key factors in this was to reconsider the role and purpose of "work experience."…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Associate Degrees, Educational Development, Work Experience

Kintzer, Frederick C. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1979
Describes the 300-member community college system in Yugoslavia and the problems recently encountered in filling the country's needs for trained technical specialists. (AYC)
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, Educational Development, Postsecondary Education

Rines, Alice R. – Nursing Outlook, 1977
A review of the past 25 years that associate degree (AD) nursing education programs have existed reveals that AD education has been studied extensively and planned carefully since its inception and has had a considerable influence on all types of nursing preparation. (Editor/TA)
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Educational Development, Medical Education

McDougle, Larry G. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1973
Function of technical education in South Carolina is to provide training programs to prepare people for known job opportunities. (Editor)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Associate Degrees, Educational Development, Industrial Education
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