Gainful employment and earnings to support a family living are significant policy goals of the applied baccalaureate program. Therefore, employment is an important metric to study; however, there are limitations in the data and process used in past reports that make understanding the true impact of applied baccalaureate programs on an individuals'…

Washington's community and technical colleges (CTCs) play an important role in producing baccalaureate degree graduates in the state. They expand opportunities for both graduates and employers, build upon professional-technical associate degrees, and provide a clear pathway for students who may be place bound or have difficulty finding a transfer…

The nature of the American academic workforce has fundamentally shifted over the past several decades. Whereas full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty were once the norm, the professoriate is now comprised of mostly non-tenure-track faculty. In 1969, tenured and tenure-track positions made up approximately 78.3% of the faculty and…

Although part-time faculty continue to dominate the instructional workforce of community colleges, relatively little is known about this diverse group of individuals. Part-timers are often portrayed as being "free-way flyers" who constantly seek full-time appointments in postsecondary education institutions. However, as this article demonstrates,…

Presenting data on academic faculty salaries and compensation nationwide and in the University and Community College System of Nevada (UCCSN), this report highlights two studies of salaries at 51 land grant universities and at 42 medium-enrollment urban community colleges for the years 1985-86 through 1991-92. Data for both studies were obtained…

In 1995, Cabrillo College was one of 18 California community colleges to participate in a pilot study on the uses of Unemployment Insurance (UI) wage record data for tracking employment rates of former community college students. The employment status of students who left the college in 1990 and 1991 was reported for their last year in college,…

This report describes an annual study done at Cabrillo College (California) of all occupational graduates and students who left the college after taking a significant number of occupational education courses. The purpose of this study is to obtain the following data from Cabrillo's former students: employment status and location, salary level,…

Drawing from information submitted to the Illinois Community College Board by the state's public community colleges, this report offers fall 1986 data on the personal and academic characteristics of part-time faculty. Tables are presented and analyzed, comparing part-time faculty to full-time faculty in terms of gender, racial/ethnic origin, age,…

This staff report presents data on black faculty employment in the tenure program of the Kentucky state university system and the employment patterns of the state-supported institutions of higher learning. Among the findings are the following: (1) the total number of blacks teaching in the tenure system rose to 131 in 1987, reversing a 6-year…

Designed to provide data to the Maryland community colleges for self-improvement and to demonstrate institutional accountability, this performance profile presents longitudinal information on student outcomes by college. The following data are presented: (1) percentage of career credit students employed full time in their field of training,…

In spring 1988, a follow-up study was conducted of students who first attended Howard Community College (HCC) in fall 1984. The primary objectives of the survey were to determine the students' educational and career achievements subsequent to attending HCC and to assess the effectiveness of the college from the students' perspective. All other…

In fall 1992, a survey was conducted of two subgroups of students who had enrolled for less than six credits in one of the seven community colleges in the Twin Cities metro area of Minnesota during fall quarter 1990, and who had not re-enrolled as of fall quarter 1992. The two subgroups surveyed included those classified as "completers"…

As part of a review of its Interior Design department, William Rainey Harper College in Illinois conducted a study of graduates and current students in fall 1994 to determine student goals, actual outcomes, and perceptions of program quality. Questionnaires were sent to 197 graduates from 1989 to 1994 and a sample of 250 current students;…

This staff report presents data on tenured and non-tenured female faculty employment in Kentucky's university system and an analysis of employment patterns of the state-supported institutions of higher learning. Among the findings are the following: (1) the addition of 306 women teachers to the tenure system lifted both the number and percentage…

Focusing on a 7-year period beginning in 1984, this report examines statewide staffing and salary trends for California community college faculty. Highlighted findings include the following: (1) between 1984 and 1990, there was a steady increase of nearly 3% per year in all categories of community college staffing, bringing the employee count to…