This bibliography on junior college counseling and guidance contains 163 entries dating from 1955 to 1968. (DG)

This paper discusses six of the more important services the university could perform in the promotion and improvement of junior college technical education. Technical education is moving from the technical institute to the junior college, and the change is affecting both the training and the college. The research resources of the university could…

This document contains comprehensive information designed to orient part-time faculty members to Tanana Valley Community College. The handbook includes information on the background, goals, and objectives of the college; college degree and certificate programs; administrative organization; birth of college courses; part-time instructor services…

In order to clarify policy on teacher load at College of the Mainland (COM), a special committee asked 46 Texas two-year colleges to submit their policies on faculty load (29 did so), selected three responding Texas two-year colleges for further interviews, conducted a literature review, profiled current loads at COM, and sent a questionnaire to…

Prior to fall 1974, faculty workload at Black Hawk College (Moline, Illinois) was determined on the basis of total semester hours taught. Now it is based on the equitable teaching load, as agreed upon by the department chairman and the faculty member, subject to administrative approval. This new method of computation is based on departmental goals…

This paper discusses aspects of faculty, administration, departmental structure, curriculum, and production operations of community college theatre departments in general and of Illinois Central College in particular. It contends that the common and revered tenet of community college institutional philosophy is "community service." The importance…

To compare more validly the first semester GPA's of transfer students from junior colleges and 4-year institutions, this University of Missouri-Columbia study concentrated on establishing matched samples as the basis for such comparisons. Matching was based on total School and College Abilities Test (SCAT) scores, academic division entered, and…

A look at significant aspects of the campus planning process suggests the nature and direction of such efforts at 12 of Florida's 13 existing community-junior colleges. Initial planning activities and months required to accomplish them are summarized, along with the various methods by which new institutions acquired facilities to begin…

With the announcement in 1964 by the New York State Regents that all 2-year colleges within the state system would be comprehensive, Nassau Community College expanded its offerings to include business career programs. Because of this commitment, the college decided to examine student attrition in the business program. A general review of the…

A brief description of the basis for collegiate authority in the states of Massachusetts, Michigan, and Missouri is presented, after which a comparative analysis is made in areas such as level of college control, level of curriculum, degree authority, and admission policies. The analysis was based on three official publications concerning…

This study is a historical analysis of the public junior college idea and its emergence. The thoughts and actions of Henry P. Tappan, William W. Folwell, William R. Harper, David S. Jordan, and Alexis Lange contributed most to its origin and development. These men, products of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were strongly…

The achievement of students placed in large English classes (maximum enrollment 100) at Bakersfield Junior College, California, was compared with that of students placed in regular-sized (maximum enrollment 35) sections presenting similar material. At the completion of the fall 1969 semester, students took the Iowa Test of Educational Development,…

This study summarizes the findings of the UCLA Education 261D seminar on Self-Instructional Materials (SIM) in Southern California community colleges. It was determined that little is currently being done in the development of SIM. The obstacles it has encountered are faculty who have reservations about the concept of SIM, and those who have an…

This discussion of enrollment status of foreign students attending California community colleges is based on information from a survey, conducted in December 1970 and January 1971, of 84 community colleges in California. Ninety-six per cent of the colleges reported enrollments of students from foreign countries with the student's visa F-1.…

With increasing numbers of students beginning their college education in two-year institutions, a need arises to provide a smooth and continuous flow of students from the junior college to the senior college. This Topical Paper provides summaries of current articulation efforts in all of the 50 states. Both state and college officials supplied…