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Download full textPima County Community Coll. District, AZ. – 1994
Describing Pima Community College's (Arizona) institutional effectiveness program, this report provides related board policy, an overview of the program, and an analysis of each of the five program components. Following introductory materials and a board statement indicating the college's commitment to ensuring institutional effectiveness through…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Evaluation Methods
Independence Community Coll., KS. – 1995
This proposal for a program designed to train workers to manufacture single-engine, piston-driven aircraft for Cessna Corporation was developed by Independence Community College in conjunction with Pittsburgh State University (Kansas) and the Southeast Kansas Area Vocational-Technical School. The proposal provides for on-site training in a…
Descriptors: Aviation Mechanics, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center on Education and Training for Employment. – 1994
This document contains 12 competency profiles for tech prep courses within the engineering technologies cluster. The document consists of the following sections: (1) systemic curriculum reform philosophy--Ohio's vision of tech prep and its six critical components; (2) an explanation of the process of developing the tech prep competencies; (3) a…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Behavioral Objectives, Competence, Competency Based Education
Lankard, Bettina A. – 1995
Although development and implementation of tech prep education programs have been in progress since the Carl D. Perkins Act Amendments of 1990, several misconceptions about tech prep still exist. One such myth is that tech prep is an integration of academic and vocational education. In truth, although integration of academic and vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education), Definitions
Jacobs, Alan – 1994
This report examines the effects of technological change on Arizona's Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) and assesses changes and progress made since the publication of MCCCD's Master Plan for Instructional Computing in 1986. The first section views constant change in computer technology as a running stream and examines the need…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Computer Networks, Computer Software Selection
O'Brien, Ed; And Others – 1995
This report presents findings and recommendations from a project undertaken by the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) to determine reasons for a decline in business course enrollments and develop strategies to increase enrollments in management and marketing programs throughout the district. Following background information on the…
Descriptors: Business Education, Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment
Prager, Carolyn; And Others – 1995
The education and reeducation of health care professionals remain essential, if somewhat neglected, elements in reforming the nation's health care system. The Pew Health Professions Commission (PHPC) has made the reform of health care contingent upon the reform of education, urging educational institutions to design core curricula with…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Allied Health Occupations Education, Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees
Wilson, Kenneth M.; Tillberg, Rebecca – 1994
A study was undertaken to obtain direct empirical evidence for the validity and usefulness of English as a second language (ESL) placement of a shortened version of the Secondary Level English Proficiency (SLEP) Test being used in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) and locally developed and scored writing tests. The LACCD provided…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Community Colleges, Correlation
Johnson County Community Coll., Overland Park, KS. Dept. of Safety and Security. – 1992
In accordance with the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act of 1990, the Safety and Security Department of Johnson County Community College (JCCC), in Kansas, prepared this report providing information on crime statistics and departmental policies. Introductory sections of the annual report feature an overview of the department's mission,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Compliance (Legal), Crime, Crime Prevention
Watts, Gordon E. – 1993
While the prospect of hiring new faculty members can cause significant apprehension for department chairpersons, a number of procedures can be employed to dramatically increase the chances of hiring a truly outstanding faculty member. The most successful searches include a series of well-defined steps moving through pre-search, search, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Competitive Selection, Employment Interviews
Anderson, Lowell D. – 1992
With increased global competition, it is imperative that secondary school programs be reformed so as to be able to turn out productive workers having basic skills in reading, writing, and mathematics and the ability to solve problems and learn new information. One proposed reform, tech prep, can be defined as a technical education alternative to…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, Educational Change
Spence, Weymouth – 1990
A graduate follow-up survey evaluated student outcomes for the radiography program at Middlesex Community College/Middlesex Memorial Hospital (Connecticut). The program prepares students for entry-level employment as radiographers. The questionnaire, based on input from program officials and respondents, was mailed to 14 1988 and 1989 graduates.…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Entry Workers
Piedmont Community Coll., Roxboro, NC. – 1992
The National Workplace Literacy Project described in this report was a cooperative effort between Piedmont Community College (Roxboro, North Carolina) and two textile manufacturing industries, the Cavel Division of Collins & Aikman Corporation (Roxboro), and the Burlington House Division of Burlington Industries (Burlington, North Carolina).…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Suksi, James – 1991
In response to the Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act, schools and colleges across the country are rushing to launch "tech prep" education programs. The resulting 2 + 2 programs are designed primarily for 16- to 20-year-olds who complete high school and then go on for postsecondary education in a technical or practical field.…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Basic Skills, College Programs, Competence
Katz, David; Fisher, Roslyn – 1991
The Occupational Education Bridge Program provides a bridge, between academic/comprehensive high schools and community colleges, that offers average ability students college experience through a career program. During its second year, the program provided 91 students (42 juniors and 49 seniors) from 5 academic/comprehensive high schools in Queens,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Education, Career Exploration, College Bound Students
