Four appendices are provided to the Market Research Task Force Report completed at Vancouver Community College (VCC). Appendix I describes, on a series of matrices, the programs offered at each of the three VCC campuses and in the college's continuing education department. The following information is included on the matrices for each college…

The need for including job entry application skills training in vocational curricula is pointed to by occasions when "A-students" fail to compete successfully in the job market and survey results that reveal that 50% of the reasons why employers reject applicants are related to the job application process. These skills, taught by the vocational…

Agricultural situs can be applied to the analysis, description, and examination of career lines, occupational families, and opportunity structures in the agricultural sector. A proposed situs classification of three categories, or parallel agricultural career ladders was examined in terms of production agriculture, agribusiness, and agricultural…

February 1980 Student Enrollment Reports were analyzed to determine selected personal and academic characteristics of students enrolled at the six Hawaii community colleges during Spring 1980. The analysis revealed that 26,029 students were enrolled; 68% were regular students in credit programs, 0.5% were early admits or concurrent registrants…

Drawn largely from the experiences of Bloomfield College (Illinois) with its Freshman Core Program, but citing other efforts to develop thinking skills as well, this essay considers several questions and issues concerning the cognitive skills approach to teaching. The paper begins by identifying some of the increasingly common learning problems…

First-year progress (1978-1979) is reported for a three-year project undertaken by Durham College (an historically black, independent, junior college) to implement Bloom's Mastery Learning Strategy in an effort to improve the self-esteem and motivation of educationally disadvantaged minority students. The report first presents a rationale for the…

According to recent studies, occupational sexism is as common today as it was at the turn of the century. A major cause may be long-standing stereotypes of role expectation, which teach students that many economic and social roles are differentiated by gender alone. In order to determine those factors most influential in career decision-making, a…

Data from the seven Hawaii community colleges were examined to determine the persistence patterns of students entering the system in Fall 1974, Fall 1975, and Fall 1976 after six semesters. Students were classified as: (1) non-persisters, i.e., those who attended one semester only; (2) moderate persisters, i.e., those who attended two or more…

The first of a series of statewide student profiles, this report summarizes data characterizing the 1,042,496 students enrolled in credit courses at the California community colleges during the first census week of Fall 1979. The data, presented on a series of tables, are broken down and cross-tabulated by age, enrollment status,…

THIS BOOK HAS THREE PURPOSES--(1) TO SHOW HOW PHYSICAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES MAY BE ADAPTED FOR EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS AT ALL LEVELS OF SCHOOL, (2) TO SERVE AS A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PHYSICAL EDUCATION PERSONNEL WHO WISH TO WORK FOR FULL DEVELOPMENT OF EACH STUDENT, AND (3) TO SERVE AS A TEXT FOR STUDENTS IN TRAINING, TEACHERS, AND THERAPISTS. PART ONE…

ARTICULATION PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED BY A 3-YEAR STUDY OF STUDENTS WHO HAD BEGUN THEIR LANGUAGE STUDY IN AN ARIZONA HIGH SCHOOL AND CONTINUED THE STUDY OF THE SAME LANGUAGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. PROBLEMS INCLUDE AN ADMINISTRATION POLICY WHICH PERMITS MOST UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO REPEAT LANGUAGE STUDY AT THEIR OWN DISCRETION, POOR HIGH…

A MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER WAS ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES TO A COMMUNITY. INITIALLY A SERIES OF MEETINGS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY DETERMINED THE SERVICES THAT WERE NEEDED. THE STAFF FOR THE PROJECT WAS SELECTED FROM THE RANKS OF PROFESSIONALLY EDUCATED WOMEN WHO WERE NOT WORKING, RETIRED PROFESSIONALS, COLLEGE…

Long-range planning to increase the participation of black Americans in higher education and to enhance historically black colleges and universities is addressed. Demographic trends concerning the black population and their representation in higher education are examined along with implications of projections about higher education. Labor market…

Thirty-five indicators of the need for change in a higher education institution are outlined. They are divided into two large categories: those over which the institution has little or no control, and those over which it has some or total control. Within those categories are subcategories: indicators for short-range planning, and those for…

This three-part report summarizes methodology and findings of three recruitment and retention studies conducted by the Bronx Community College (BCC) during 1979-1980. Part I examines a survey of enrolled students conducted to determine student attitudes toward BCC, the services that were most in demand, the reasons for attending BCC, and student…