The Instructional Aide Program (Shoreline Community College, Seattle, Washington) is a flexible curriculum designed to prepare students to meet the paraprofessional manpower needs of several kinds of institution. It was prepared after consultation with representatives of the schools, the YMCA, and the country park system. Other agencies still to…

The current conflict between faculty and administration will continue to grow and must receive attention from the junior college. Some conflict is natural and neither could nor should be eliminated. Increased faculty involvement in institutional governance will keep undesirable conflict at a minimum and will encourage constructive debate. The…

This study examined (1) Illinois and Maryland state policies on recruitment of part-time junior college teachers, (2) institutional recruitment practices, sources, and techniques, (3) orientation practices for part-time faculty, and (4) their relation to standard principles of personnel administration. All Colleges in both states were asked to…

IN A STUDY OF EDUCATIONAL FUND RAISING PRACTICES AT PRIVATE 2-YEAR COLLEGES, A 66-PERCENT RETURN WAS RECEIVED FROM QUESTIONNAIRES SENT TO 174 COLLEGES. OF THE RESPONDENTS, 82 PERCENT HAD FUND RAISING PROGRAMS. THE AUTHOR FOUND THAT (1) PRIVATE 2-YEAR COLLEGES WERE LESS EFFECTIVE IN FUND RAISING THAN SENIOR INSTITUTIONS, (2) PRIVATE 2-YEAR COLLEGES…

This study proposed (1) to clarify the image college teachers and teacher interns had of themselves and of each other and (2) to determine the importance each group gave to 20 characteristics associated with the role of college teaching. Each rated himself and male and female interns and staff members on the following 20 descriptions: friendly,…

This report describes the setting, implementation, and findings of an experiment in educational telecasting of 17 one-hour lectures, a course for college credit in lower division health education. Units included (1) quackery, (2) self-diagnosis, (3) preventive medicine, (4) syphilis and gonorrhea, (5) environmental health, (6) cancer, (7) heart…

The author suggests that higher education become a service for students, not an obstacle course that excludes rather than includes. The "paper student," as shown by his transcript, is poorly described. No account is taken, for instance, of his family background--low income, lack of occupational status and geographic or social mobility,…

Conferees heard five papers designed to emphasize some contemporary problems of higher education. The keynote address stresses the role of the institutional researcher, who must not only be capable in his discipline of research, but also be concerned that his work is relevant to institutional needs and problems. He must place the results in…

The study compated two methods of teaching the use of the log-log slide rule in engineering courses, a straight lecture method or a lecture-laboratory method. The lecture method consisted of two separate hours a week with class discussion and demonstration by the instructor. The lecture-laboratory method comprised one hour of lecture and…

Since, with changing marriage and career patterns, women have been re-examining their educational possibilities, this study considered: (1) whether women in small towns had motives different from those in large cities, (2) if motives differed with age, (3) how levels of aspiration differed, and (4) how vocational plans varied according to…

To differentiate certain characteristics of unsuccessful, marginally successful, or successful students in a junior college remedial program, the author made a random selection of 219 males and 120 females (from the 790 enrolled in a 1.5 probation program) according to the independent variables of high school rank (HSR), SCAT-Total score, class…

This study was made to see if junior college students' needs or perceptions of environment differed from those of university students. From high school graduates within a certain district, a random sample of underclassmen was taken, half at the junior college and half at the university. Stern's Activities Index and Stern and Pace's College…

This article illustrates the various uses to which ERIC resources can be put. The Fullerton Junior College Library subscribes to about two-thirds of the ERIC reports, all on microfiche. The advantages of microfiche are that it (1) is up-to-date, (2) is inexpensive, (3) is indexed, (4) occupies little space, (5) is a regular source, (6) prevents…

The objectives of the institute were (1) to encourage excellence in education research, both institutional (self-study) and action (practice), (2) to have the staff and trainees evaluate the program, and (3) to distribute its findings to junior colleges interested in improving their own research. A followup of the trainees and their research was a…

To analyze the planning and implementation of plans for an organization of higher education within a larger state-wide movement, this study was designed to investigate the following elements of the St. Louis County Junior College District: (1) interorganizational relationships which evolved between local, state and national levels in preparation…