Lynette Brown-Snow, vice president of marketing and government relations for the Community College of Philadelphia, is one of several community college leaders across the country who have taken up one of the challenges proffered by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in its 2012 report, "Reclaiming the American Dream:…

Discusses the changes in the first half of this century in journalism education and cites the current state of affairs. (GB)

The increasing number of community junior colleges and the changing adult characteristics contribute to the expansion of the size and scope of junior college adult education. Forces which tend to restrict this development to conventional classroom programs are the definition of adult education as a community service inferior to transfer and…

Cites (1) social and economic conditions leading to a reversal in attitudes toward adult education and (2) evidence of shifts in students and instructional methods. Presents a rationale for and considers several aspects of systematic college programing: on-going research and development; continuous evaluation; effective planning; and program…

First in a three-part series, this article describes the revision of the Developmental Studies program at Greenville Technical College in South Carolina. Presents revised policies and procedures in the areas of scheduling, staffing, grading, attendance, and counseling. Discusses rationales for the changes. (DR)

Based on the "High Schools That Work" model, the Quad County Tech Prep Consortium in Florida has won several awards for its comprehensive tech prep program. The partnership enables technical students from four school districts to flow smoothly into an associate degree program at Indian River Community College. (JOW)

The rapid expansion of community college programs has at least seven implications for community college speech programs and speech instructors. (1) Since most community colleges are open-door institutions, many students are coming to these institutions ill-equipped to handle the oral and listening requirements of academic life, necessitating…

A survey was conducted of the number and location of two-year institutional changes that occurred in 77 two-year colleges between the academic years 1962-63 and 1971-72. The extension of 77 junior colleges into four year colleges over the past ten years is discussed. Over 40% of the institutions were church-related, and almost 75% were…

Developed for those actively involved with planning the future of two-year postsecondary educational institutions, this publication synthesizes information from the literature with the knowledge and practice in the field regarding the impact of the new adult majority. Chapter I summarizes the issues. Chapter II provides an overview of some of the…

Profound changes have taken place in American community colleges in the last three decades. During the late 1960s, a desire to remove social inequities and to increase social mobility brought about a general educational liberalization which broadened access to education and limited constraints on passage through the educational system. Falling…

This report aims to provide Phase 1 "first-round" information and preliminary recommendations to lead toward more intensive career education planning. The report discusses: (1) possibilities for revision and expansion of career training programs to meet the needs of the 1970s and 80s, (2) the effect on the careers of the future by the…

Published studies of tech prep were reviewed to identify and assess tech prep's potential for improving secondary-level educational programs in general and in Mississippi in particular. The beginnings of tech prep in Mississippi were traced to community colleges in the late 1960s-early 1970s. In the 1990s, operation of tech prep programs was…

This nine-part literature review examines ways in which community college administrators are dealing with the rapidly changing social, political, and educational environment. Part I examines some of the external pressures placed on community colleges to change both policy and programs, and argues against reactive responses to these changes. Part…

This project brief provides a summary of the Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning project, supported by the Corporation for National Service and administered by the American Association of Community Colleges. The project was developed to increase the number, quality, and sustainability of service learning programs in…

Although China has expanded its system of short-cycle vocational and technical education in recent years to respond to its rapid economic development, most programs are narrowly focused on special technical areas and offer few general education or personal development components. As such, China's technical institutions differ greatly from…