This bibliography updates a previous bibliography on campus judicial systems, student rights, student discipline, equal opportunity, and other legal issues related to college students. The bibliography is divided into five sections: Books, Monographs, & Reports; Papers, Addresses, and Bibliographies; Periodicals and Journals; Theses and…

All Top Administrators, Other Administrators, and Faculty at Central Florida Community College (n=101) were surveyed in order to ascertain their perceptions of the college's existing governance characteristics. Response rates from each of the three groups differed but were at least 70%. Results of the survey showed that the traditional…

This paper describes the structure and operation of an evaluation system for the developmental education program at Dalton Junior College (Georgia). All applicants for admission to the college who score below 330 on either section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test are required to take the Comparative Guidance and Placement (CGP) test to determine…

This paper describes Oregon Institute of Technology's Staff Career Support (SCS) program, which provides continuous assistance to teaching, administrative, and counseling faculty willing to share responsibility for their own development. This comprehensive program provides opportunities to improve ability to teach, to increase state-of-the-art…

Introduces a system of classifying developmental students according to personalities and circumstances for the purpose of determining what kinds of individualized teaching will achieve the best results. Suggested categories included: relearners, new learners, slow learners, poor performers, role players, inconfidents, disadvantaged,…

Includes essays on such urban community college issues as governance (by Sean A. Fanelli); non-credit and credit programs (by Hilary Hsu and Salvatore G. Rotella); pedagogical problems (by Leslie Koltai); politics and governance (by Donald H. Godbold); and technological education (by Flora Mancuso Edwards). (DMM)

Examines the trend of community colleges to narrow the language arts curriculum to meet a restricted definition of "literacy." Argues for a wider definition that calls upon students to become familiar with the various uses of language through reading and writing. (FL)

Examines Florida's articulation system in terms of governance and state coordination of K-12, community college and four-year college sectors; the Florida Administrative Code's rule on articulation and its effects on transfer, community colleges and high schools; and the future of articulation in the state. (DMM)

Describes the objectives, methods, and design of a study conducted to assess the extent to which faculty associations have taken on certain management functions or rights, and to determine the impact of faculty unions on the traditional professional prerogatives of the faculty. (DMM)

Describes joint federal/state/city/institutional efforts supporting the attendance of 20 Kickapoo Indians at Southwest Texas Junior College's Eagle Pass Adult Basic Education Center, highlighting project objectives, instructional approaches, and financial aid. Traces the Kickapoo's historically uneasy relationship with the U.S. government and the…

Examines four areas in which two-year colleges can serve as a major resource: education for effective citizenship and civic responsibility; education and training for employment; international/intercultural education; and educational access for "at-risk" populations. (DMM)

A 1985 survey by the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries queried 50 community college learning resources centers about their programs; hours of service; staff; collections; services; automation and telecommunications; and resource sharing. Forty-two respondents revealed advances in resource sharing, but some inadequacies in…

Reports on interviews conducted to assess the status of humanities instruction in North Carolina's community colleges. Includes Dallas Herring's reflections on the establishment and growth of the state's community college system. Summarizes interviews with central office representatives and two-year college managers concerning the mission and…

Revenues of doctoral, comprehensive, general baccalaureate, and two-year private and public institutions are outlined by source (tuition and fees, appropriations, grants and contracts, private support, endowments, and others); expenditures are tabulated by function (instruction, research, public service, libraries, academic support, student…

Data are presented on salaries for professors, associate and assistant professors, and instructors in four percentile groups, by institution type, and noting percentage increases in the last year for each rank and institution type in public, private, and church-related institutions. (MSE)