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Download full textOutcalt, Charles – 1999
This digest describes community college honors programs with regard to their origins and goals, consistency with institutional missions, and effectiveness. Potential goals for honors programs at community colleges include: (1) providing advanced students an opportunity to learn more than they would in a non-honors curriculum; (2) retaining a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Honors Curriculum
Rifkin, Tronie; Georgakakos, John Harry – 1996
In 1991, a study was conducted at Riverside City College (RCC), in California, to determine the development of science reasoning among students. A science reasoning test was administered at the beginning and again at the end of fall 1991 to two samples: a college-wide sample of 843 students enrolled in one of 55 courses, and a science-oriented…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Pacifici, Tamara; McKinney, Kristen – 1997
Although about 53% of public higher education students are enrolled in community colleges, the proportion of students with disabilities served by the community colleges is about 71%. According to a 1995 survey of 672 community colleges across the United States, approximately 8% of students reported a disability and about half of those requested…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Disabilities, Educational Practices, Financial Support
ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, Los Angeles, CA. – 1984
Increased national attention to the quality of education has resulted in a more critical examination of the community college transfer function. This concern for transfer has been precipitated by several factors: (1) the declining percentage of community college students who transfer; (2) the growth of the community services, vocational, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2002
Recent educational approaches that have career and technical education (CTE) components have integrated work-based learning (WBL) with traditional academics. Among positive effects of the association between WBL and secondary students' educational outcomes are: (1) increased attendance, (2) decreased dropout rates, (3) increased number of academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Career Academies, Career Education
Ignash, Jan M. – 1993
The "revolving door syndrome" refers to the ease with which students are able to enroll in community colleges and the equal ease with which they can drop out. In addition to traditional retention strategies, such as assessment, placement, orientation and advising, innovative approaches have been implemented at five community colleges…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropouts
