Reconsiders the community college's "cooling out" function in higher education and the less desirable alternatives of preselection, transfer-track selection, open failure, guaranteed graduation, reduction of transfer-terminal distinctions, and elimination of two-year colleges. Reviews literature using and abusing the "cooling…

A study conducted during the 1977-78 academic year in four Oregon community colleges indicated that mathematics proficiency is related to success in first-quarter chemistry, but that beginning students do not have strong mathematics skills. (BB)

Describes how Los Rios Community College District (LRCCD), California, the major provider of nursing graduates to the Sacramento area, addressed the issue of the nursing shortage crisis. LRCCD faced the dual issues of student/faculty ratio restrictions of 10/1 and funding that accommodated a 40/1 ratio. Describes LRCCD's new off-campus,…

Reviews literature on learning styles and describes the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Discusses a study utilizing the Kolb LSI to determine the learning styles and characteristics of community college art students. Identifies two main groups: younger males interested in majoring in art and older females taking noncredit courses. (10…

Describes three relational patterns of community college students in their course experience: survivor, adjustor, and encounterer. Uses Passmore's theory of closed and open capacities as a framework for a model of planning and implementing instruction to move students from survivors or adjustors to encounterers. (Contains 12 references.) (AUTH/NB)

Used canonical correlation methods to investigate the relationship between social power motivation and personality characteristics in 126 women and 50 men at a community college. Results from men seemed to describe the approach motive, whereas results from women seemed to describe a fear or avoidance motive. (TE)

Among 2,926 students from 10 California community colleges, younger students had slightly greater needs than did older students in 7 career areas: knowledge of interests; deciding goals; greater certainty; exploring careers related to interests and abilities; selecting relevant courses; developing job-search skills, and obtaining a job. Men and…

Using the analogy of the theater, considers the computer's "role" in the "dramas" in which students engage. Illustrates some of these roles in operation in the Maricopa Community College District (Arizona) and addresses issues raised by the infusion of technology into the tracking process. (DMM)

Notes that different ages and goals mean different programs and job opportunities for students at two- and four-year colleges. Focuses on differences between two- and four-year college that have significant influence upon type and extent of career services each provides its students and alumni. Specifically describes differences in training and…

Explores the possibility of distinctive patterns of student peer relations at a community college in terms of two questions: (a) frequency of peer relations and (b) variation among students. Indicates peer relations revolved around studying together, discussing coursework, or talking more generally in the student center or elsewhere on campus.…

Ponders F. Scott Fitzgerald's essays about his "crack-up" and relates them to the many complex aspects of the struggles of a teacher using post-structural literary theory and teaching two-year college students. (SR)

Reports that the population of women in community college programs has grown and diversified with an increasing number of single parents; older, single women; low-income women; and women of color. Presents results of a study, which confirmed that the presence of a strong counseling and support network for the reentry female is vital to her…

ALL ARTICLES IN THE JUNIOR COLLEGE JOURNAL (OCTOBER 1930-MAY 1967) ARE LISTED BY SUBJECT, AUTHOR AND TITLE. (WO)

This study examined seven factors that affect the adequacy of a junior college library collection: (1) size of enrollment, (2) library funds, (3) type of curriculum, (4) college expenditures per student, (5) time spent on book selection, (6) use of book-selection aids, and (7) the librarian's qualifications. Data were gathered from the Texas…