This report is based on the findings of two inquiries of administrators and faculties at Ceylon's six Junior University Colleges. It represents an attempt to evaluate the first term success in meeting certain stated objectives. The inquiries concerned the areas of (1) preparing students for manpower positions, (2) preparing students for manhood,…

Reviewed in this report are the steps that led to the formation of faculty senates in California. Through interviews, the functions of such senates and their current status were determined and guidelines were formulated that would lead toward implementation of the concept of shared authority in community college governance. Interviewing…

The Education Professions developing Act of 1967 (EPDA) provides funds to assist institutions of higher learning in educating personnel to serve as teachers, administrators, or educational specialists in the junior colleges. The University of Hawaii was among 47 institutions awarded funds for junior college fellowships. These 2-year fellowships…

This document reviews the concepts and definitions related to the community services function of the community college. Problems of organizing and financing community service programs are examined, as well as problems of leadership and the question of coordination with the community and within the college itself. Several contemporary issues and…

The Junior College Attitude Survey, an instrument designed to measure the attitudes of public high school counselors in Illinois regarding junior colleges, was developed in this study. A Likert-type scale numerically ranked responses to a set of statements about junior colleges. The scale offered five degrees of intensity: "strongly…

Twelve audio-tutorial stations were used for teaching a general biology course. Cassette tapes were substituted for class lectures and helped integrate laboratory procedures with lectures. Slides, drawings, living and preserved materials, and a variety of chemical experiments supplemented the tapes. Behavioral objectives and exercises along with…

This document lists the 232 two- and four-year institutions of higher education, with 342 campuses, where faculty members have named agents to represent them in collective bargaining. Institutions are listed in relation to the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers. (MJM)

This symposium report includes principal addresses and invited papers about the two year college student. Section A on career education in the community college includes: "Career Programs at Miami-Dade Junior College" by Peter Masiko, Jr.; "Community Colleges: Islands of Accomplishment or Oceans of Rhetoric" by Dale Parnell; and "Career Education…

Antelope Valley Community College, in one of its efforts to improve educational offerings, commissioned the institutional research officer to develop a technical vocational occupation follow-up system. This report is a description of the results of the survey used to evaluate technical vocational occupation success from 1967 to 1972. (Author/SGM)

A study to provide an empirically based conceptualization of the state directors of community junior colleges and their staffs was conducted. A questionnaire to provide information on the administrators was mailed to the state directors of 48 states. Questions concerned the length of time the director had been in office, the place where the…

Evaluation in its true concept should be a process for collecting information to make better decisions. The author discusses in detail four planning stages to evaluate programs. The first stage of the process is to ascertain the decision areas of concern. In the second stage, the evaluator must select the appropriate information-gathering…

Representatives from junior and senior colleges in the states of Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma participated in the 5th annual Missouri Valley Conference on Junior and Senior College Cooperation. This article includes reports of special group discussions and the following major addresses: (1) Articulation of…

This topical paper on reading center facilities is part of a series on reading programs in junior colleges. A center is described as a facility used by students, individually or in groups, to develop academic skills and learning through the important element of self-teaching. It is recommended that a center include grouping of learning materials,…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of remedial courses and present placement policies and instruments. Comparisons were made in such areas as ability, interest, motivation, persistence, and performance among randomly selected groups of junior college students: (1) those needing to take remedial courses but placed in…

With a new accepting opinion toward religious studies, already exemplified by courses and departments in secondary schools, universities, and state colleges, a need exists for the expansion of religious studies in the junior colleges. Teaching religion, especially the history and study of comparative religions, is considered legal as long as…