The Metropolitan Institute of Community Services (MICS) centralizes and expands all community service programs formerly offered independently by Metropolitan Community College District (Kansas City, Missouri) colleges. MICS, the fourth college in the District, is dedicated to community services and modeled not on existing structures, but on…

Designed to provide direction for new and existing programs offered by community colleges in public service occupational education, phase one of the master plan focused on defining the following areas: public service occupational education, present status of programs, problems in articulation, and a conceptual framework for a public service master…

Reported are fiscal data for the years 1974 and 1975 as submitted by Ohio institutions. Additionally, summary tables have been included reflecting the combined total revenues, additions, and expenditures of all the institutions. Covered are: (1) total annual income; (2) total annual expenditures; (3) application of current funds available for…

This summary contains instructors' discussions of an independent research report which evaluated the compensatory education program at El Paso Community College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Because of open admissions policies, many students enter this college without the prerequisite basic skills necessary to understand their texts. Over 75% of…

New VIEW (The New Vocational Education for Women Program) is an educational experiment undertaken by the Foothill-De Anza Community College district, designed to help mature women entering the labor force prepare for, and acquire, responsible careers. Objectives of the program are to raise each student's level of confidence and competence, prepare…

Data summaries illustrated by charts and graphs are presented with some commentary for the years 1970-71, 1972-73, and 1973-74 for the approximately 3,000 postsecondary institutions, including branch campuses, in the U.S. enrolling about 9 million students. Statistics include enrollment (total enrollment and full-time equivalent enrollment and the…

The "Presidents' Study" is a collection, classification, and analysis of weekly student contact hours (WSCH) and full-time equivalent (FTE) faculty data gathered from a number of participating California community colleges. The data are treated by various formulae, ratios, and graphs to indicate loads, trends, and costs. Unfortunately,…

This report includes four papers presented at the fourth annual Conference on Compansatory/Remedial Education held by the Community College Development Center in 1976. Georgette Ioup reviews current issues in second language learning research and discusses their implications for the ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom. David Harrison…

Experimental colleges are one attempt to provide more relevant educational experiences. They are characterized by the merger of counseling and instruction, the lack of grades and normative student rankings, interdisciplinary coursework, student input into curriculum planning, contract learning and independent study, off-campus learning…

This report focuses on the professional status of the community college faculty as a collective whole by examining the factors which enhance or retard their professionalization. Topics include administrator-faculty relationships, faculty organizations, collective bargaining, patterns of preparation and inservice training, methods of selecting…

The articles included here tackle the difficult and necessary job of illustrating how to teach more effectively, how to enhance student learning, how to make instruction more efficient, how to make schooling more pertinent to the real lives of students--and thus, how to motivate them and engage them fully in their own development. Topics discussed…

This manual was designed to provide structural guidelines for financial aid program operations and administration at the Community College of Baltimore. Topics discussed include: the philosophy of student aid at an open door college; the objectives of the student financial aid office; staff development and administrative improvement; organization,…

This document describes the developing Junior University College system in Ceylon. Six institutions, resembling American community or junior colleges, were established in 1969 to fill Ceylon's manpower needs not met by her universities, technical colleges, and teachers' colleges. The Junior University College's three-fold aim includes imparting…

Community colleges are failing to realize their potential because of problems at the very highest level of policy and management decision-making. Publicly elected trustees are apt to have political allegiances. Community college boards are usually too small to represent the range of talent and experience needed for constructing effective trustees…

This study was commissioned to provide data related to program and facility needs of the community college proposed in the Lewiston-Auburn area. A brief history of the two-year college movement in general, and in Maine in particular, is followed by descriptions of three area surveys. The High School Survey of 2,246 junior and senior year students…