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Texas Education Agency, Austin. Dept. of Occupational Education and Technology. – 1977
This monograph contains follow-up information gathered by 54 Texas postsecondary institutions on 1975-76 occupational/technical graduates of both certificate and associate degree programs. Data are reported for 8,763 graduates from a total population of 13,958. The highlights were that: (1) 71% of the graduates were full-time employees in their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Followup Studies
Valvoda, Mary Alice; And Others – 1977
In order to determine what its graduates were doing immediately after graduation, Lakeland Community College distributed the "Student Outcomes Questionnaire for Program Completers" to all 463 potential June 1975 graduates just prior to graduation. In early 1976 it sent a copy of the questionnaire to those Associate in Applied Business…
Descriptors: Age, Associate Degrees, College Graduates, Community Colleges
Download full textTrufant, John E.; Snyder, Fred A. – 1975
Of the 5,227 1973-74 graduates of the Virginia Community College System, the majority (61 percent) were men. Racial minorities comprised 11 percent of the graduates. Although the largest single age group was 21 years or younger, the majority of the graduates were at least 22 years old. Thirteen percent were older than 35, and the median age for…
Descriptors: Age, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Demography
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Dept. of Occupational Education and Technology. – 1977
A total of 3,254 nonreturning occupational/technical and university transfer/academic students responded to a series of surveys conducted throughout Texas during fall 1976 as part of the Tex-SIS (Student Information System) Follow-up System. Information on college majors, education goals, reasons for not re-enrolling, satisfaction with educational…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Community Colleges, Educational Background, Employment Patterns
Shearon, Ronald W.; And Others – 1975
The objectives of this research project were to: (1) replicate and update data gathered in 1969 about North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) credit students; (2) provide a similar profile of non-credit students; (3) provide a profile of all North Carolina adults (over 18) in 1970 to serve as a comparison basis; (4) examine student value…
Descriptors: College Choice, Day Students, Educational Attitudes, Evening Students
Peer reviewedKnoell, Dorothy M., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1973
A predominant function of community colleges is the education and guidance of students from widely varying backgrounds and with diverse interests and objectives. This sourcebook examines the major student clienteles for whom comprehensive two-year colleges must plan programs and services. The articles consider transfer students; occupational…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Dropouts, Educationally Disadvantaged
Clery, Sue; Topper, Amy – Achieving the Dream, 2008
Nearly one-quarter of students in community colleges leave school during the first year of enrollment for reasons other than transfer or credential completion. Generally, nontraditional community college students drop out within their first year at higher rates than do traditional students. Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Credits, Dropouts, Nontraditional Students
Amarillo Coll., TX. – 1988
Since 1984, the Amarillo College-sponsored Area Schools Assistance Program (ASAP) has worked to: (1) identify recent high school graduates without postsecondary education plans and provide information to interested graduates on higher learning, obtaining work, or making other career decisions; (2) encourage and assist high school graduates who…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College School Cooperation, Educational Counseling, Followup Studies
Kidd, Brian – 1984
A study was conducted to determine what combination of a student's personal characteristics and community college experiences contributed to a successful transfer to a four-year institution, and to learn which constellations of current and proposed campus resouces at Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) were most valuable in assisting students to…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Counseling Effectiveness, Graduate Surveys
MORROW, THOMAS J. – 1965
PROGRAMED MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTION WAS USED OVER A TWO-YEAR PERIOD IN THE HIGH SCHOOL AT DES MOINES, NEW MEXICO. THE MAIN PURPOSE WAS TO OVERCOME MATHEMATICS LIMITATIONS OF THE COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENT FROM SMALL SCHOOLS AND TO OFFER NON COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS A SOUND MATHEMATICS BASE CURRICULA. THE TEST GROUP OF 46 STUDENTS BEGAN AT 3 DIFFERENT…
Descriptors: Carrels, Class Organization, College Preparation, Credits
Falcone, Andrew J. – 1990
A longitudinal study was conducted of enrollment patterns and student persistence at the Metropolitan Community Colleges of Kansas City, Missouri. The entire fall 1987 first-time freshman population of 2,994 students was followed from entry through spring 1989 to identify patterns in the enrollment and characteristics of persisters, dropouts, and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Black Students, Community Colleges, Dropout Research
Lee, Valerie E.; Frank, Kenneth A. – 1987
A study was conducted to investigate the probability of transfer from a two-year college to a four-year college for a random sample of 2,500 students who attended a community college within 2 years of high school graduation in 1980. Nationally representative longtitudinal data from the High School and Beyond study established the characteristics…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Mobility
Olszak-McClaine, Lisa – 1986
In February and March of 1986, Butler County Community College (BCCC), Pennsylvania, conducted a survey of Butler County high school seniors to determine student characteristics, educational plans, influences on plans and college choice, perceptions of BCCC, and information sources. Surveys were administered in class to 1,903 seniors in seven high…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges
Johnson County Community Coll., Overland Park, KS. Office of Institutional Research. – 1987
In 1987, a study was conducted by Johnson County Community College (Kansas) in cooperation with local public school districts to determine the career and educational interests of the county's public high school students. Surveys were administered in class to 11,477 freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, requesting information on high school…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, Enrollment Influences, Females
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1980
In response to a request from the California state legislature, a plan is proposed for obtaining information on the number of community college students eligible to transfer to the University of California and the California State University; the characteristics of those students who do and do not transfer; and the persistence and performance of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education)
