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Schonfeld, Roger C.; Radecki, Jane – ITHAKA S+R, 2021
In 2017 to 2018, the University of Wisconsin (UW) System undertook a major consolidation, removing its two-year college campuses from a standalone sub-system known as the UW Colleges and merging them with nearby four-year UW institutions. The system-level motivation for doing so, in a state undergoing a demographic shift with an aging population,…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Two Year Colleges, Universities, Equal Education
Drinnon, Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research examined the ways and means administration used to disseminate information concerning the consolidation of two technical colleges in the State of Georgia, USA. These means of information dissemination included press releases by the consolidating colleges and the Technical College System of Georgia (the system which the consolidating…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Consolidated Schools, Information Dissemination, Qualitative Research
Keith, Philip M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Developmental education courses have become a standard in community colleges in the United States. An overwhelming majority of these public two-year schools offer developmental courses to a wide array of students. At the same time, developmental programs are under a constant barrage of attacks from a variety of stakeholder organizations that view…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
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Bell, Dorothy; Gaston, Betty Jo – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2004
In the 1950s, the State of Florida led the way in developing a national model for the development of the junior or community college system. The "Brown vs Board of Education" Supreme Court Decision impacted the segregated system and during the 1960s, Florida's 12 black junior colleges were merged with pre-existent majority campuses. This…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Libraries, Library Services, Archives
Abel, J. F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
The purpose of this bulletin is to furnish generally to persons who are interested, and more especially to educators and students of education, the names of and the main facts pertaining to 260 school consolidations in all parts of the United States. The term "consolidations" is used because the kinds of educational organizations about which data…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Consolidated Schools, Counties, High Schools
Keesecker, Ward W. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1939
No argument would seem to be needed to prove that knowledge of contemporary legislation affecting education is of a practical advantage to every educational worker and to all citizens of representative government. Under our system it is the prerogative of a State legislature to overcome legal obstacles, or to set up new legal instruments for…
Descriptors: School Administration, Public Education, Private Schools, Federal Legislation