This working paper discusses the unique and complex issues community colleges face in providing career counseling and guidance to students, and it provides an overview of the current status of these services. Guidance and counseling at community colleges is complicated by the variety of students and the varying needs of population--from the older…

This report provides enrollment information for Washington community and technical colleges during fall quarter 2000. It also presents information about student demographics, programs and student characteristics, state-supported course enrollment, contract-supported course enrollment, and staff. Highlights include: (1) Washington's community and…

This Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) report examines patterns of fall to spring retention rates of first-time students. The report is divided into five sections: (1) retention rates analyzed by students' educational objectives; (2) retention rates by program placement and award type; (3) retention rates of three cohorts of students:…

This report focuses on community college credit enrollments in Iowa for fiscal year 1998 (July 1, 1997 through July 1, 1998). Campus enrollments are shown as percentages of state total, and credit enrollments are broken down by race/ethnicity, gender, residency, and age as well as by program type (vocational, college parallel, career option, or…

This document is a study of the demographic and academic traits of fall 1999 online students taking electronic courses through Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) (California). The study aims to compare online students with SBCC students and peer students taking the on-campus versions of the electronic courses at SBCC. This evaluation examines the…

Recent research has begun to suggest that epistemological beliefs of students develop to a more sophisticated level with age and education, while other preliminary studies have found that community college students tend to have more naive beliefs about learning and knowledge than do students attending four-year colleges and universities. The…

The Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges created this document in 2001. Its goal is to measure the degree of use, effectiveness, and acceptance of the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC). The study was completed through three different questionnaires: (1) one was distributed to recent community college…

Every two years Douglas College, British Columbia, gives a series of short questionnaires to students registering during the fall semester. The questions cover student demographics and topics, such as educational goals, perceptions of Douglas College, and previous education. This 2002 survey received a total of 4,100 scannable responses from 9,800…

This is a 2001 report on student enrollment and staff statistics for Washington's community and technical colleges. The report provides data on student enrollment demographics, enrollment by program type, and faculty demographics. Results indicated that: (1) over 250,000 students were enrolled in a community or technical college; (2) over 17,000…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of a freshman orientation course on the academic performance and retention of new community college students. The study was designed to obtain both qualitative and quantitative data. A survey was distributed to students who attended Coral College (a pseudonym), California, from the fall of…

This document is a collection of charts and tables showing student enrollment data and demographics for the University of Hawaii community colleges. Figures one through seven show annual data from 1989 to 1999 and include: (1) headcount and full time equivalent (FTE) enrollment; (2) percentage change in headcount and FTE; (3) enrollment by program…

The Metropolitan Campus of Cuyahoga Community College (CCC) in Ohio conducted a survey of 239 institutions belonging to the University of South Carolina's National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience (FYE) to identify elements of a model program that could be established at other institutions. The summary revealed five key ingredients…

This document provides an analysis of the 1997 and 1998 Sacramento environmental scans completed by Los Rios Community College District (California). Findings include: (1) new high school graduates and new older students are, on average, earning GPAs and success rates that are below average for all students; (2) specific Los Rios ethnic minority…

Counseling needs in the two-year colleges are varied and complex. There is a need for career counseling, counseling for career flexibility, preparing for the job interview and how to keep a job, follow-up, counseling and developing opportunities for minorities as well as concern with handicapped, veterans, and marginal students. (Author)