This study assesses the economic impact of the Metropolitan Community Colleges (MCC) on the four-county region of metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri. The total economic impact is composed of a network of interactive cash flows between the colleges, business, government, and individuals, and may be derived by adding three distinct components:…

In 1974, the State Board for Community Colleges outlined a series of five projects to be funded with Part B, federal funds for a period of five years. This report provides an overview of each project, outlines the problem, states project objectives, and summarizes preliminary results and future activities. Projects relate to occupational programs…

Ideally, educational technology in higher education should seek nontraditional solutions to the problems of learning. An examination of the needs of the adult learner indicates that as the years past age 18 increase, the appropriateness of the classic college classroom model decreases, and educational technology becomes increasingly relevent. This…

Applicants to Johnson County Community College's nursing and dental hygiene programs are expected to have demonstrated ability in the fields of science and communications, either through high school or college grades or scores on standardized tests. This document relates these various predictor variables to three criteria of success: (1)…

A total of 27,745 transfer students were enrolled in fall 1974 at institutions in the State University of New York (SUNY). This represents an increase of 9.6 percent over fall 1973, and maintains the continuous growth of transfer students entering SUNY institutions. Of these students, 63.5 percent were enrolled in senior institutions and 36.5…

The main section of this directory is an alphabetical listing of the 301 colleges and universities with faculty collective bargaining agents, 218 of which have contracts. Each is identified as public or private, two- or four-year, and the bargaining affiliate (e.g. American Association of University Professors, National Education Association) is…

Out of a factual description of the national demographic and economic context of higher education in general the authors offer interpretations for community colleges emphasizing three trends significant to educational planners: (1) Demographic pressure that made for increased enrollments in the past will dissipate at the traditional college-going…

This document describes the Chicago City-Wide Institute, a non-campus college established in 1974 as the ninth administrative unit of the City Colleges of Chicago. The basic mission of the Institute is to develop and operate programs at the college level for adults who cannot or choose not to go to a traditional college campus. The Institute also…

This plan for a college-wide participatory governance system at Cuyahoga Community College (CCC) was formulated on the basis of a review of the literature, interviews with leading authorities in the two-year college field, and site visits to six other urban multi-campus community colleges to review their governance systems. This document presents…

In order to compile attrition/retention information for students in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, this study identifies and charts the flow of two full-time, first-time student cohorts: (1) students first enrolled in fall 1970 in bachelor degree programs; (2) students first enrolled in fall 1972 in two-year degree programs. The…

On the basis of a survey of the literature pertaining to the special education and guidance needs of the handicapped, a survey of existing programs at 47 California Community Colleges, the proceedings of advisory committee meetings, interviews with counselors, college health services staff, and representatives from community agencies working with…

An elaboration upon a previous descriptive survey of college reading improvement programs was provided by this study. New topics of investigation included evaluation procedures, facilities, finances, the relationship of reading education programs to college reading improvement, and program changes during the period from 1965 to 1975.…

This study represents the first formal effort of the University of New Mexico (UNM) to develop an in-depth, long-range master plan for its Gallup Branch Community College (GBCC). It includes: (1) a description of the GBCC district (geography, culture, transportation, population projections, employment, and manpower needs); (2) a description of…

This document contains three reports. The first, "What Is Mediated Instruction?," discusses programs of media services--their goals, how they operate, and their functions, and describes the Learning Resources Center at Los Angeles City College (LACC), which emphasizes self-paced individualized instruction and which utilizes a new…

This report summarizes a longitudinal study of 32,245 students enrolled for credit and new to 32 California community colleges during the fall quarter of 1972. Patterns of enrollment for six semesters are analyzed by a number of criteria: age at the time of community college entrance, sex, part-time versus full-time status, and freshman versus…