California Community Colleges (CCC) are integral in ensuring student enrollment, persistence, and subsequent higher education degree attainment. As one of the most affordable institutions of learning, community colleges symbolize access to various degree and certificate completion options, transfer opportunities, vocation and remedial education,…

The Center for Collegiate Mental Health found that between 2009 and 2015, colleges saw an increase in counseling center use by up to 40 percent, despite only a 5 percent increase in enrollment. The most common concerns among college students are anxiety and depression. Experts point out that this increase could be attributed to students being more…

Purpose: This dissertation sought to find the most significant personal strategies and institutional support used by Latino males who successfully complete transfer requirements in the Los Angeles Community College District and determined what factors most contribute to Latino academic success. The study begins with a review of literature and…

The Reedley College (California) counseling staff, before their new counseling center was built, undertook a survey of 63 community colleges in California to obtain information on actual and desirable counseling offices, counseling hours, and facilities. The optimal office size was found to be 10 x 11 1/2 feet. Size, however, depends on the…

Second year operations of this mobile center have validated many of the assumptions on which it was founded (see ED 031 243), including a reduction in the communications gap between Contra Costa College and the community at large. While attempts to compare this year's results with last year's can be considered premature, some findings may be of…

During 1971, the third year of operation of Contra Costa College's (California) mobile counseling unit, the priorities established for that program were (a) to make the mobile counseling unit and program as widely known in the community as possible, and (b) to concentrate on the services to the client. The counseling unit and program were…

Los Angeles City College in 1969-70 successfully conducted an experimental study on the Mobile Advisement Center (MAC) as an effective means of enhancing the extent and quality of information on the college reaching low-income communities. MAC is housed in a modified mobile home, 28 feet long and eight feet wide, containing four counseling…

THE COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL SHOULD PROVIDE A BROAD GENERAL EDUCATION FOR ALL, WITH A PHASED CURRICULUM CENTERED ON MAJOR, SERVICEABLE IDEAS. IT SHOULD ALSO PROVIDE VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND GUIDANCE. IN A COMPREHENSIVE DISTRICT, IT CAN TRULY INDIVIDUALIZE INSTRUCTION. SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS ON WHICH THE NEED FOR A COMPREHENSIVE DISTRICT ARE BASED…

Designed for staff working in community college career centers, this report provides a practical and concise set of references on California community college career centers. The information presented in the report was collected in spring and summer 1987 through a formal questionnaire survey, on-site visitations throughout the state, and a review…

In 1974, the California legislature directed the California Postsecondary Education Commission to develop a plan for establishing independent postsecondary education counseling centers to serve California residents not enrolled in a college or high school. On the basis of interviews, a review of the literature, and site visits to existing…

California Career Centers are inschool information centers offering a variety of information and guidance which can be used efficiently and constructively by career guidance personnel as an educational tool to facilitate the career development of students. This study represents an effort to assist guidance personnel to implement, maintain, and…

A study of career education was done in California to develop a conceptual model that describes the cooperative activities (intradisciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary) within the school setting, identify promising practices that use cooperative activities to enhance the implementation of career education, and make recommendations…

Description and evaluation of services offered by the Career Center at Imperial Valley College, a community college located in southeastern California, is reported in this document. (The college serves a large percentage of disadvantaged students, predominantly Mexican-American.) The evaluation report includes discussion of the following areas:…