A comparison is made between the Portland Community College (Oregon) physical plant and a shopping center. The college planners have arranged the facilities to provide useful, practical, and effective educational opportunities for all of the students. (BB)

World Campus Afloat, an international study program sponsored by Chapman College, California, takes junior and senior college students via ship to different parts of the world. (MS)

A study of the characteristics of Kansas public junior college trustees covers background, sex, age, education, occupation, and income. (MS)

This historical review of the functions and objectives of the junior college concludes that identity is the greatest problem of the junior college. (MS)

Public service projects, campus publications, student government programs, intramural sports, and other college-related activities of the students enrolled in the various community colleges and technical institutes in North Carolina are discussed. (HH)

Defines the term "high technology" and recommends that community college educators be prepared to respond to the need or training in this area. Warns against continuing to prepare students for obsolete jobs and encourages planning programs that are flexible and capable of responding quickly to change. (NRJ)

The latest development in solar energy is a four-acre pond planned for Clark College in Vancouver (Washington). Filled with brine, it will serve both as collector and heat storage tank for the entire campus. (Author)

Gives tribute to Bertie Carlyle Edwards Fearing (1943-1995), one of the three senior editors of "Teaching English in the Two-Year College." Characterizes Bertie as a person with "style," always focused on the task at hand, and recruiting staff members with Mensa-level intellects and showing them by her example how to work together harmoniously…

Presents a dialog in question-and-answer form to explain the rationale behind using radians instead of degrees in calculus. (ASK)

Explains how Kansas City, Missouri's Longview Community College successfully relocated and shuffled class schedules around the construction of its liberal arts building. (GR)

There is often a particular void in the education of deaf and hard-of-hearing students who intend to become competent working laboratory technicians. Inasmuch as certain basic professional skills ("soft skills," in this case) are not generally taught in traditional science courses, a new curriculum has been developed in order to enforce…

Using the most recent ten years of federal data, this report examines the state of the higher education workforce in the United States. This report, which will be an annual report produced by AFT Higher Education, documents the trend of relying more and more on contingent faculty in higher education who may be underpaid and undersuported. The…