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After the Doors Opened: Asking "Why" at a New Community College
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Evenbeck, Scott; Merians, Linda E. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2016
This chapter describes some of the major principles, practices, and processes involved in designing and founding a new community college dedicated to improving student outcomes by doing things differently.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Improvement, Educational Change, College Planning
Using Cooperative Learning and Classroom Research with Culturally Diverse Students.
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Obler, Susan; And Others – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1991
Rio Hondo Community College (California) combined elements of cooperative learning and classroom research to meet needs of a culturally diverse population. The effort is based on four principles: (1) creating a curriculum supporting diversity; (2) treating students as inexperienced adult learners; (3) promoting cooperative learning; and (4) using…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Research, Community Colleges, Cooperative Learning
Combining High School and College: LaGuardia's Middle College High School.
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Lieberman, Janet E. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1985
The Middle College High School on the LaGuardia Community College's campus demonstrates what can be done for high risk students by a full integration of high school, college, and the world of work. The Middle College features flexible pacing, broad curriculum, career education, and a college environment. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Curriculum
A Faculty Evaluation Model for Community and Junior Colleges.
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Arreola, Raoul A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1987
A procedure for developing a comprehensive faculty evaluation program is described with examples of various components. Procedures for implementing such a program are discussed. Determining and weighting faculty roles, defining roles and gaining information, and arriving at a matrix are described. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty Development, Faculty Evaluation
The Growth of Honors Programs in Small and Community Colleges.
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Jackson, Jocelyn Whitehead – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1986
The steady emergence of small-college honors programs in the early 1970s and the subsequent rapid growth of community college honors programs after 1978 are reviewed. The many successes in these colleges to capitalize on their existing strengths have avoided the problems of larger, university programs. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
A Minnesota Story: A System Approach to Classroom Assessment and Research.
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Stack, Connie; Peterson, Joel – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Classroom assessment and classroom research in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is traced to 1989 when the terms entered the community-college faculty-development vocabulary. They are now household words among the 500 faculty participating regularly in faculty development. Problems encountered and positive results are…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, College Faculty, College Instruction, Community Colleges
Expanding the Volitional Resources of Urban Community College Students.
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Trawick, LaVergne; Corno, Lyn – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1995
Research suggests urban community college students have ineffective study approaches and habits. A program teaching how to regulate behavior, cognition, and affect can be an important resource. One such program helps students monitor and control external and internal aspects of the learning environment, task and setting, others in the task…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Educational Environment, Higher Education