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Direct linkKissel, Julie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of the study was to understand the institutional forces that constructed and shaped the function, nature of funding, and governance of Washtenaw Community College (WCC). This qualitative, historical case study built on organizational theory used archival research to identify themes and the institutional building blocks for the junior…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Community Colleges, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Download full textCommunity College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017
Beginning at a local two-year college and then transferring to a four-year institution has been one of the most affordable ways for students to earn a bachelor's degree. Yet transfer pathways from two- to four-year institutions are often complex and confusing, and too many students who begin at a community college and aspire to earn a bachelor's…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Transfer Programs, Transfer Policy
Taylor, Jason L.; Bragg, Debra D. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2015
In 2012, five foundations launched the Credit When Its Due (CWID) initiative that was "designed to encourage partnerships of community colleges and universities to significantly expand programs that award associate degrees to transfer students when the student completes the requirements for the associate degree while pursuing a bachelor's…
Descriptors: Transfer Programs, Transfer Policy, College Transfer Students, Associate Degrees
Pingel, Sarah – Education Commission of the States, 2014
The outcomes states gain from investing in postsecondary financial aid programs remain hotly debated, leading to great interest in developing programs that are both cost-effective and productive in helping states meet goals. In the 2012-13 academic year, states collectively provided approximately $11.2 billion in financial aid to students enrolled…
Descriptors: State Aid, Student Financial Aid, Postsecondary Education, College Students
Harvey, Darcie – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2017
Many states are experimenting with mechanisms for making college more affordable while maintaining quality and access. This report examines promising or innovative state programs to improve college affordability and credential attainment. Many of these approaches show innovative thinking and bear watching to see if they result in meaningful…
Descriptors: Paying for College, State Policy, Educational Policy, Access to Education
WEBER, JOHN – 1968
TO STUDY THE ENGLISH PROGRAMS AT FIVE MICHIGAN JUNIOR COLLEGES, THE RESEARCHER SPENT A WEEK AT EACH COLLEGE, INTERVIEWING, VISITING CLASSES, AND STUDYING WRITTEN MATERIALS. FIVE CONCLUSIONS RESULTED--(1) REMEDIAL COURSES ARE OF DOUBTFUL SUCCESS. THERE IS WIDESPREAD DISSATISFACTION WITH PLACEMENT TESTS, TEACHING METHODS, AND THE COURSE SEQUENCE.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Instructional Improvement
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1972
These reports on school integration in Pasadena (California), Tampa-Hillsborough (Florida), Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Winston-Salem/Forsyth (North Carolina), and Pontiac (Michigan) are based on interviews and material gathered by Commission on Civil Rights staff members from January 10, 1972, through March 29, 1972. In each school district staff…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1974
Attention has periodically been given to inequality of opportunity in higher education in Michigan by both the governor's office and the state board of education. Activities to date have been based upon the premise that disadvantaged students have often been effectively excluded from participation in higher education, and that certain procedures…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Assessment
Hungar, Julie Yearsley; Lieberman, Janet – 2001
This report presents the findings of a national study initiated by the Ford Foundation to examine the policies affecting community college transfer, including obstacles to transfer and successful models for overcoming those obstacles. The first part of the document outlines current changes in higher education and identifies factors that encourage…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Case Studies, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Carrigan, Patricia M. – 1969
This is an extensive study of Ann Arbor's first school desegregation effort, involving the 1965 closing of Jones elementary school and subsequent reassignment of its predominantly Negro population to predominantly white schools. The research focused on the first year of school desegregation, exploring academic, social, behavioral, and attitudinal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aspiration, Black Students
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1981
The Program Review Extension Procedures (PREP) set forth in this manual are a flexible set of procedures and questionnaires designed for use by Michigan community colleges in evaluating non-occupational instructional areas. First, introductory material explains that PREP is not a component of, but rather a companion model to the Michigan Community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Services, Continuing Education, Data Analysis
Coats, William D.; And Others – 1972
This paper is based on a compilation of the first two phases of longitudinal research on desegregation effects now being conducted in the Kalamazoo Public Schools. The purpose of the Phase I study was to obtain baseline data during the spring of 1971 prior to the desegregation of the Kalamazoo Public Schools, which was initiated in the fall of…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Classroom Desegregation, Classroom Observation Techniques, Desegregation Effects
Clark, Brenda S.; Woloszyk, Carl A. – 2002
Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan, has partnered with Michigan community colleges to develop an occupational education studies (OES) program to prepare future career and technical education (CTE) instructors by allowing students to transfer their technical degree from the community college as their teaching major at the…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Credits
