A STUDY OF 1,000 STUDENTS WHO ENTERED SIX PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES IN FALL 1959 WAS DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS IN TERMINAL OCCUPATIONAL PROGRAMS. THE EMPHASIS WAS ON SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND. OF THE 319 STUDENTS WHO SPENT SOME TIME IN OCCUPATIONAL PROGRAMS, (1) MOST ENROLLED IN SUCH PROGRAMS DIRECTLY FOLLOWING HIGH…

ALTHOUGH THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF OVERLAP BETWEEN TRANSFER AND TERMINAL STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, THE TRANSFER STUDENT GENERALLY COMES FROM A HIGHER SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL, SCORES HIGHER ON COLLEGE ENTRANCE TESTS, COMES FROM AN ACADEMIC HIGH SCHOOL BACKGROUND, IS MORE UPWARDLY MOBILE, AND PLACES GREATER EMPHASIS ON PRESTIGE IN SELECTING A CAREER. BOTH…

The Los Angeles Community College District has developed a two-semester interdisciplinary humanities curriculum which combines art, music, history, English, philosophy, theatre arts, and technology into a topical or modular structure. Students are offered a wide variety of classroom activities which draw on both verbal and nonverbal skills. (NHM)

INFORMATION FOR THIS STUDY WAS OBTAINED FROM A SURVEY OF CALIFORNIA JUNIOR COLLEGES OFFERING AGRICULTURAL TRAINING FOR THE TERMINAL STUDENT, AND FROM FORMER STUDENTS. EXAMINATION OF THE NUMBER AND TYPE OF COURSES OFFERED, STUDENT EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND, AND EMPLOYMENT RECORDS OF FORMER STUDENTS INDICATES THAT 1) AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION HAS BEEN…

Since 1966 the Department of Business and Office Administration at the Jefferson Davis (JD) Campus of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College has conducted follow-up studies of all students who were enrolled in any of its courses. Between 1966 and 1970, studies of each student group were conducted at one- and two-year intervals; since 197l,…

This study examined the kind of employment taken by male junior college graduates and related it to their college training, whether regular lower division (transfer) or vocational (terminal). A questionnaire was sent to 369 alumni of three California junior colleges three years after graduation; 276 of them responded. A year later, 28 of those who…

THE CONTRIBUTION OF JUNIOR COLLEGES TO THE SUCCESS OF WORK EXPERIENCES AND ACTIVITIES OF MALE ALUMNI IS INVESTIGATED. INFORMATION WAS GATHERED FROM THE RECORDS OF THREE JUNIOR COLLEGES, QUESTIONNAIRES SENT TO ALUMNI 3 YEARS AFTER THEIR GRADUATION, AND INTERVIEWS HELD WITH A SELECTED NUMBER OF GRADUATES. THE INFORMATION COLLECTED SERVES AS A DEVICE…

Objectives, practices, and characteristics of general education language arts were synthesized to serve as criteria for evaluating the efforts made by public two-year colleges to meet the needs of terminal students in general education language arts. Data obtained from questionnaires revealed that only 192 schools had a communications course which…

THE STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE DEGREE OF ACADEMIC SUCCESS OF STUDENTS OF AVERAGE ABILITY WHO ENROLLED AS FRESHMEN IN A CALIFORNIA JUNIOR COLLEGE DURING AN 11-YEAR PERIOD. THE SUBJECTS WERE THOSE WHO (1) SCORED IN THE MIDDLE 20 PERCENT OF NATIONAL JUNIOR COLLEGE NORMS ON A COLLEGE APTITUDE TEST AND (2) EARNED IQ SCORES FROM 90 TO 110 ON…

An annotated bibliography of selected documents in the ERIC collection dealing with general education for the two-year college occupational student. (DC)

The inclusion of general education curricula in occupational programs has been both condemned and praised. This article reviews the literature relating to this issue and questions the paucity of research designed to assess the opinions of the students involved. A 17-item bibliography is provided. (DC)

This study investigated the status of communications programs for the terminal technical-vocational student in public junior colleges in the United States. Data were gathered from 173 junior colleges in 28 states. It was found that (1) 65 percent of the respondents offer communications courses for occupational students and that the smaller and…

This paper reports on an examination of the differences between and among community college students enrolled in transfer and occupational programs. Data were gathered from a sample of 924 full-time freshman and sophomore students enrolled in transfer and occupational programs in three Iowa community colleges in the spring of 1968. Seventy-nine…

Assessment of the progress of occupational students, while difficult, can be successfully achieved by means of cooperative efforts between theorists and researchers in student assessment and professional college staff members who work with students. (JDS)

BASIC TO THIS STUDY WAS THE ASSUMPTION THAT, IF ACQUAINTANCE WITH SOCIAL SCIENCE CONTENT AND METHODOLOGY IS OF ANY VALUE, ALL JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS SHOULD STUDY THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. TO LEARN HOW JUNIOR COLLEGES WERE PROVIDING SUCH COURSES FOR TERMINAL STUDENTS, THE AUTHOR VISITED 25 COLLEGES, WHERE HE INTERVIEWED FACULTY, VISITED CLASSES, AND…