According to a survey of 65 department heads, 178 instructors, and 364 graduating students, community/junior colleges offer a wide range of agricultural education programs in the southeast. Horticulture had the highest enrollment; few females or minorities were enrolled in agricultural education. (SK)

Examined role-conflict differences between community college counselors from accredited and nonaccredited centers. Results showed that counselors from accredited counseling centers reported significantly less role conflict in performing duties; in feeling supported in job resources, materials, and staffing; when working with two or more groups who…

Differentiates between activity planning, which does not produce demonstrable outcomes, and impact planning, which does. Impact planning is characterized by a matching process with the appropriate methodology, organizational fit, clarity, linkage to the college's ongoing organizational systems, and substance over style. Contains 11 references. (CK)

Discusses the development of "Teaching English in the Two-Year College," a journal designed to serve the special needs of community college English faculty. Discusses success and subsequent growth of the journal and considers the different subject matters addressed throughout the first five developmental years of the journal. (SC)

Focuses on two equity issues for diverse cultures in mathematics classrooms: (1) curriculum, instruction, and assessment and (2) professional development of instructors. (Author)

Asserts that counseling intervention is essential to enable immigrant students to cope with the stresses of immigration and the effects of those stress on their college performance. Developing English language fluency is accompanied by other adjustment issues. States that college counselors can facilitate both students' adjustment and the…

A literary club formed a community of readers among underserved and nontraditional community college students. Members meet to discuss literature and host authors' visits. The environment enables students to share their perspectives and develop deeper understanding of literature and of themselves. (SK)

States that in 1998 the Oklahoma State Legislature changed the status of Rogers State University (Claremore) from a community college to a four-year university. Reports that the library's mission had to adjust to this change, in particular: the book acquisition budget was increased, the library's hours were expanded, and a number of electronic…

Offers advice to librarians for marketing their Web sites on Internet search engines. Advises against relying solely on spiders and recommends adding metadata to the source code and delivering that information directly to the search engines. Gives an overview of metadata and typical coding for meta tags. Includes Web addresses for a number of…

Makes a case for students' using a focused, carefully phrased question as the basis for prewriting and writing, as opposed to a thesis sentence which can more easily lead them astray. (TB)

Describes development of technical college system in South Carolina as part of state strategy for economic development. (PKP)

Presents two writing activities. Gives a brief description of an activity of personal reflection for composition students. Describes a composition classroom activity for writing effective introduction lead-ins. (SG)

Provides applications of mathematics designed to demonstrate to students how the topics under study are used in the real world. The ultimate objective is to convince students of the usefulness of mathematics. (ASK)

Describes how Roxbury Community College in Massachusetts is roiled by financial troubles and the threat of a state takeover in the wake of its president's departure. (EV)

Notes that it is not easy to help students enter into ongoing dialogues on ethics in both school-based and more immediate environments, ask students to consider ethics on both personal and social planes, and require students to write and reflect to stave off the disembodiment of culture. Describe a course that helps students to see rhetoric and…