Although community services are community-oriented and community relations are college-oriented, both depend on community/college cooperation and one reinforces the other. Both apply to private and public and to established and developing institutions. In March 1969, two workshops were held, at San Antonio, Texas, and Moline, Illinois, to develop…

The remedial student's lack of success is characterized by low grades in English and math and by a high dropout rate. Topical Papers 1 and 2 (ED 022 479 and ED 026 050) considered two possible reasons for his lack of success. This paper examines a third, namely, his inability to form new concepts. It presents a description of concept learning to…

The Junior College Leadership Program, originally meant to supply administrative and research leadership for the growing number of colleges, has expanded its scope to include continuing development of administrators, a doctoral program for administrators and research-oriented educators, and a cooperative internship for instructors. Visits to…

This document summarizes recent graduate studies (independent or for degree) on junior colleges. The topics examined were: general education requirements in three states; characteristics and attitudes of women students; student characteristics (five studies); self-concepts of selected students; socail studies curricula in three states; secretarial…

Although more college students are enrolled in freshman composition classes than in any other, there is little clarity of purpose in these writing courses. In such a field, where outcomes must be expressed in terms of student writing skills acquired (or not acquired), few well-defined experiments have been reported. This investigator, in an…

In its Faculty Development Program, AAJC surveyed administrators to discover what in-service and other job-related programs now exist to encourage and help working teachers and to assess the availability and adequacy of continuing professional training. It covers only continuing or refresher studies for current faculty and staff, not pre-service…

In this address, the speaker examines several different types of organization (charismatic, traditional, bureaucratic, and task-oriented) and the role of the leader in each. In the modern, task-oriented system, his role can hardly be generalized as decision-making, direction and control, problem-solving, inspiration, communication, or any other…

To differentiate student creativity by various tasks, the investigator used two classes with many minority-group students for whom certain admission requirements had been waived. In lieu of final exam, 17 experimental (Minority) and 28 control students received tests of creative thinking. Two forms were used, each with three separate figural…

An experiment was conducted at Metropolitan Junior College, Kansas City, to determine (1) if an experimental group of English I students who wrote 24 compositions during one semester would show greater writing improvement than a control group that wrote only eight, and (2) if there would be a difference in reading and vocabulary development…

See JC 690 392 above. [Not available in hard copy because of marginal reproducibility of original.]

A compulsory freshman orientation program at Tarrant County Junior College (Texas) required 18 hours of class contact. During the first two weeks of the program, freshmen were presented with general information about the college and introduced to college administrators. During the last six weeks, the students scheduled 10 hours (in any…

This paper looks at community services in the junior college, particularly cultural affairs. The nature of the community must be defined before an effective program can be organized. The college can then determine the area of services to be offered. Cultural programs are considered to be those offering lectures, films, exhibits, theater, and so…

This document can serve as a model for other junior colleges applying for accreditation. The application includes detailed description of the operation of the college and of its relationship with the community. (MS)

This is the second progress report on an information storage and retrieval system that will gather data from junior college students while they are enrolled and after they leave college. Problems that have been encountered are discussed, and the general system procedure is documented with program descriptions. The first progress report of this…

This paper examines the needs of the failure-oriented junior college student, presents the learning resources center as a major tool in junior college instruction, and develops a systems approach to the design of a comprehensive learning resources center. Since junior colleges accept a full range of students, including many of low ability,…