City Colleges of Chicago undergo policy changes. In 2010, a reform sought to install accountability and transition City Colleges of Chicago into compliance with government funding requests through Reinvention. Reinvention, in the public view, was hailed as a necessity for a system that could not sustain on its own. It used a shock-system…

"Terra Cognita" surveys the current landscape of archival research and the experiences of emerging scholars seeking to navigate it. Drawing on data from the Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR's) Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, the report takes an in-depth look at how the conditions and…

This mixed methods sequential explanatory study was designed to investigate students' persistence in an online Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) Program by researching the implications of goal orientation and other academic, institutional, and student-related factors of non-traditional students enrolled in such a program at the University of St.…

The advising literature confirms the graduate student-graduate advisor relationship as the most important factor in graduate student success. To better understand the characteristics of graduate advisors that students find most helpful, we conducted a grounded theory study with a constructivist design that involved a qualitative textual analysis…

Information on participation, funding, and administration of forensics programs at state-supported community colleges in Illinois was sought through surveying all 37 state-supported community colleges. Responses were received from 20 (54%) of the schools surveyed. Results of the study indicated: (1) about one-third of the state-supported community…

Summarizes four cases in which Illinois college newspaper advisers found their employment jeopardized or terminated because they assisted their student staffs in uncovering and printing investigative news stories that were seen as unfavorable to the administration. (AEA)

Reports results of a survey of the attitudes of Illinois high school principals and publications advisers toward student journalism and freedom of the press. Concludes that Illinois high school students enjoy only a limited amount of journalistic freedom. (GT)

Following an historical review of court decisions regarding students' rights, this paper discusses the 1969 Tinker case in which high school students' rights of free expression were established for the first time, examines the 1974 Kennedy Commission findings that the First Amendment rights of high school journalists were being ignored in most…

During 1971-72, graduates of Olney Central College (OCC) who had transferred to a four-year school were asked to rate OCC's instructional, curricular, and personnel services, to determine how adequately the college meets the needs of its students. Students' reactions to thirty-eight statements about the college were registered on a Likert-type…

Low cost or no cost ideas for programs in smaller rural schools are listed. Areas covered include public relations, special programs and curriculum. Based on the experience of a small school district in Elizabeth, Illinois, these ideas include the school's relationship to students, faculty and the community; extracurricular activities relating to…