This document provides a list of dissertations, ERIC documents, and journal articles on contemporary issues of interest to community college leaders. The topics addressed include adjunct faculty, dual/concurrent credit, economic and workforce development, technology and distance education, development/fund raising, student retention, strategic…

This document presents the results of a project to develop new designs for career and technical education (CTE) at the secondary and postsecondary levels in the context of the process and recommendations used in two previous projects that identified new designs for comprehensive high schools and two-year postsecondary institutions. The document is…

Florida's Workforce Development Education (WDE) Program was subjected to an evaluation and justification review to determine its benefit to the state and evaluate its systemwide performance. The following components of Florida's WDE program were evaluated: career and technical education (CTE); adult education programs; and continuing education…

This paper describes one college-level English-as-a-Second-Language teacher's use of error analysis in an effort to understand students' problems with reading comprehension and writing. The research was undertaken in a Japanese junior college. Three studies are presented. In the first, 59 students in a general English course listed sentences they…

The federally-funded Success Through Transitional English Program (STEP) at EL Paso Community College (Texas) is described and evaluated. The program is designed to provide limited-English-speaking adult basic education graduates with the English skills to succeed in vocational, college credit, and non-credit courses at the college. Evolution of…

The purpose of organization, for a collegiate institution as well as for a private profit corporation, is to assure efficiency and economy of operation. In view of today's pressures for increase of both quantity and quality in higher education, there is a growing need for institutions to examine critically their present organization for internal…

This bulletin provides a basic guide for the items of information to be used in pupil accounting in the local and State school systems of the United States. Meeting at the call of the U.S. Commissioner of Education in April 1960, a policy committee for the pupil accounting project defined the project's purpose as the development of a manual of…

Part 1 of the 1958-59 Education Directory covers federal and state education agencies. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Office of Education officials, principal school officers of state and territorial education departments, library extension agencies' executive officers, and U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs…

Part 1 of the 1959-60 Education Directory covers federal and state education agencies. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Office of Education officials, principal school officers of state and territorial education departments, state and territorial library extension agencies' executive officers, and U.S. Department of Interior Bureau…

Part 1 of the 1960-61 Education Directory covers federal and state education agencies. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Office of Education officials, principal school officers of state and territorial education departments, library extension agencies' executive officers, and U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs…

Discusses J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College's (JSRCC) improvement of teacher education by developing courses that reflect national mathematics and science standards, providing "preteaching" experiences and in-service courses for current teachers, actively recruiting students for the teaching profession, forming preteaching student…

Describes a successful collaboration between high school and community college faculty that effected a reduced need for first-time college student remedial writing instruction. Discusses Ohio's Early English Composition Assessment Program, the model for collaborative success, and project recommendations. (YKH)

A study of 180 defaulters and 907 nondefaulters on federal loans at a private 2-year college found that withdrawal from college, gender, race, age, high school rank, and college grades were significantly correlated with default status. Division choice, borrowing characteristics, and reasons for leaving college did not correlate with default…

Data are presented on high school completion and college attendance trends for whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians. Also shown are minority group college enrollment trends; degrees earned by minority group; and enrollment (undergraduate, graduate, full- and part-time) by race at about 3,400 colleges and universities, organized…

Describes the lack of child-care systems as a deterrent in recruiting welfare recipients into the work program. Asserts that if community colleges could gain federal, state, and industrial support, they would be able to establish large and well-equipped child-care centers. (VWC)