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…

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…

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…

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)

THE STAFF OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE TESTING PROGRAM DEVELOPED QUESTIONNAIRES, CHECKLISTS AND PROCEDURES DESIGNED TO EXPRESS IN QUANTITATIVE TERMS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS AND THE JUNIOR COLLEGES THEY ATTEND. SINCE CORRELATIONS AMONG STUDENT AND COLLEGE CHARACTERISTICS WERE LOW TO MODERATE, ONLY VERY BROAD CONCLUSIONS COULD BE DRAWN. TWO-YEAR…

Because of the very early closure of certain courses, a questionnaire was developed and administered to all evening college students registering during a pre-determined period in order to identify enrollment patterns. Another questionnaire was administered following the first census week to students in a 10 percent randomly selected sample of…

This document presents a comprehensive statistical picture of public postsecondary two-year institutions in Iowa. The bulk of the document consists of extensive tables of data obtained from records of the Area Schools Division, Iowa State Department of Public Instruction, but brief narratives and charts are included as well. Many of the 16 area…

Reports on a study of the differences in the learning styles of 400 community college students in career and transfer programs as measured by the Canfield Learning Styles Inventory. Presents findings by program area and sex. (DMM)

The heterogeneous nature of community college populations has resulted in an academic dichotomy within two-year institutions. Most institutions offer two types of programs: (1) discipline-based, university parallel programs, oriented toward transferring students to four-year institutions; (2) vocational/technical programs, oriented toward terminal…