This paper presents some of the ideas of three early contributors to the junior college movement in the United States (William Watts Folwell, Henry Phillips Tappan, and William Rainey Harper). All three of these men agreed that the first two years of college should be within the realm of secondary schools, or, at least, distinct from the…

This syllabus for an 11-unit course of instruction is designed to prepare effective junior college teachers, counselors, and administrators, though its content can be generalized to all institutions concerned with systematic approaches to instruction. The specification of instructional objectives in terms of observable (and thus evaluable) student…

General personal, occupational, and school experience data were gathered from students who enrolled in the Orange Coast Junior College District in the fall 1968, but failed to return in the spring. These data became part of the storage and retrieval system of Project Follow-Through, a joint study sponsored by the Junior College District and the…

Differences between returning and non-returning students in the Orange Coast Junior College District (California) are the focus of this first in a series of similar reports. Data were initially obtained from students enrolling in the district during the fall of 1968, and have been continuously gathered from new, continuing, and non-returning…

The development of a rationale and of a tentative set of guidelines for evaluating community junior college instruction is the focus of this report. Initially discussed is the range of purposes for which instructor evaluation might be undertaken, including promotion, tenure, and improvement of instruction. The choice of evaluators is then…

The last decade has seen a 250 percent increase in the production of master's degrees. An outstanding force in this increase has been the need for college teachers, whose numbers increased 281,506 in the past 10 years. Those holding master's degrees now constitute the primary manpower pool for college teachers, with 56 to 60 percent of new college…

This study compares junior college students assigned to remedial classes in English and mathematics who subsequently completed regular courses in these subjects, with those assigned directly to regular courses. Students studied were from seven junior colleges that participated in the 1967-68 experimental phases of the Comparative Guidance and…

This report summarizes the major conclusions of the Aviation Briefing for Community Colleges, which met to establish dialogue between community colleges and the aviation industry. Included are: (1) an overview of community college aviation, covering the topics of the aviation industry, the rationale for aviation in the community college, the types…

Because of regional differences affecting higher education in Iadho, the Center for Developmen t of Community College Education examined Lewis-Clark Normal School (LCNS) and possible new facilities and programs for its area vocational-technical adjunct. Findings included (1) the legislature disregarded a 1962 recommendation that LCNS become a…

This annotated bibliography is in two parts: (1) a select list of 60 documents for the administrator and librarian concerning recruitment and training for and manpower needs of the library profession, with an emphasis on library technical training in the junior college; and (2) a list of seven documents concerned with the library technician in the…

This workshop was the third and final phase of a project to determine what goals, methods, content, and learning experiences in psychiatric-mental health nursing should be included in diploma and associate degree education for nursing in light of present day trends in psychiatric care. The project indicates that the hospital is no longer the focal…

The first-year objective of this experimental program was to give every student information relating to (1) college procedures, (2) study habits, (3) careers, and (4) personal adjustment. To accomplish these objectives faculty volunteers were recruited to assist the professional counselors in offering 15 instructional hours to each student. An…

This report shows the results of a questionnaire on academic experiences, administered to students at four different colleges. Included in the term "academic experiences" are such factors as mental activities in class and in studying for class, the role of the teacher, motivation for studying, feelings about courses, and patterns of work. Two main…

This study reports an attempt to measure differences in learners caused by audio tape and lecture procedures in a social science course. The sample consisted of only two classes, both taught by the same teacher. Three measures were used in evaluation of the two procedures: (1) scores on the Allport-Vernon-Lindsey Study of Values; (2) scores on the…

Students enrolled in a 5-hour-per-week (long) English 101 class were compared with students taking the same class 3 hours per week (regular). F ratios from multiple linear regression analyses revealed that (1) significant differences existed between the two groups in ACT scores (ACT scores are one criterion used to assign students to long or…