A discussion is provided of the contributions of the study of the humanities towards the improvement of community college occupational education. After section I provides background information on the creation of a Shared Vision Task Force by the National Council for Occupational Education (NCOE) and the Community College Humanities Association…

In an effort to determine external and internal reasons for program, course, enrollment, and instructional differences in the strength of the humanities curriculum at two-year colleges, 20 colleges representing a variety of sizes, geographic locations, means of control, and program emphases were selected for site visits. Interviews revealed that…

This report on a curriculum project incorporating the study of the humanities and mass media is presented in four chapters. The first chapter is an overview and describes the three components of the curriculum project: (1) a new course entitled "Television as Popular Culture," (2) a team-taught course on media theory entitled "The Electric Media,"…

This study examines the status of and influences on the humanities in community service programs at eight community colleges in Southern California and offers recommendations for improving this position. After introductory material and a review of the literature on humanities and community services in the two-year college, Chapter II presents the…

This progress report reviews the third year of activities conducted by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges as part of the Washington State Humanities Project. First, the report discusses the role of Center staff in advising on the project's organization and activities, reviewing materials, visiting campuses, and linking the project with…

In this study, selected aspects of the college environment were related to student academic achievement at 27 small liberal arts colleges. The colleges' social and academic environment were assessed through students' perceptions and included five scales describing the extent of faculty-student interaction, student activism, curriculum flexibility,…

A project was undertaken to develop a model for gender-fair education (GFE) in compulsory English, French, humanities, and philosophy courses in Quebec's Colleges d'Enseignement General et Professionel (CEGEPs), and to test the model's effectiveness in the classroom. First, core teachers at the CEGEP were surveyed to determine how they viewed and…