An outline for a course designed to review shorthand principles and provide practice for speed and accuracy in transcription is given. Class activities are organized in conjunction with the textbook, "Gregg Shorthand for Colleges, Volume One, Series 90." Course and performance objectives, suggested instructor and student materials, an…

A shorthand course designed to develop writing speed with the use of specialized vocabulary is outlined and described. Skill development in the nonshorthand elements of transcription (punctuation, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary building) is emphasized. Class activities are organized in conjunction with the textbook, "Gregg Shorthand for…

Four women who are chief executive officers of community colleges comment on special problems which confront a woman in a chief executive position. Observations and suggestions are made which may be helpful in preparing other women for similar positions. (NHM)

Additional state laws and federal legislation will probably be enacted to authorize collective bargaining in the public sector. The effect of that legislation will be to facilitate the unionization of a majority of the public two-year colleges throughout the fifty states. (Author/NHM)

Advantages and disadvantages of an academic dean's participation in collective negotiations are discussed. A negotiating chief academic officer must keep a fine sense of balance between his immediate role as institutional representative at the bargaining table and his long-term task of providing instructional leadership for the campus. (NHM)

A management team should consist of from three to seven members, including a chief negotiator, a labor attorney, a contract language specialist, and a recorder. The chief negotiator should establish and maintain a relationship among the members of the team in which the responsibilities of each is clearly limited and understood by all involved.…

The use of a skilled professional negotiator as a consultant or spokesman can assure a college of the most efficient and effective results of bargaining. The specialist can act solely as an advisor and resource person to the administration's bargaining team, or he can be both advisor and chief negotiator. (Author/NHM)

The principle of mathematical induction is often too sophisticated to use in freshman and sophomore courses. The well-ordering principle can be used to prove theorems such as the formula for the sum of the first n positive integers. (SD)

This paper offers practical suggestions for the development and use of audiovisual educational materials. Examples of audiovisual possibilities are drawn from the author's experience in developing support materials for an introductory sociology class. (NHM)

The more than 150 entries in this bibliography represent a vast array of teaching strategies as well as the psychological and pedagogical underpinnings of humanistic education. (Author/NHM)

In order to coordinate efforts in occupational education, there must be common instructional goals at the high school and postsecondary levels, standardization of skill competencies, and instructor awareness of what others teach and what employers expect. In addition, student proficiency evaluation and interinstitutional counselor communication…

Many students enter classes like the Shakespeare character Caliban, knowing books to be powerful but feeling eluded by them, unable to access their knowledge. Author Jill Wright shares new-found inspiration and insight she discovered while co-directing Act III, Scene ii of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and suddenly realized a…

Describes a journalism program at Pasadena City College which uses a strong public relations campaign to attract promising high school students. (RB)

A review of the rapid growth of community colleges with an analysis of current situations and recommendations for capitalizing on them. Community colleges must coordinate their efforts with those of the high schools and universities; they must also make occupational education equal to academic education in the minds of citizens. (DC)

Suggests that a separation of the grammar (form) and ideas (content) in teachers' evaluations of their students' writings on literature must be maintained. (RB)