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Otto, George – 1979
Community colleges, facing a decline in the 18 to 24 year old college age population, should adopt the marketing philosophy of private enterprise to discover and meet the unsatisfied educational needs of non-traditional, though potential, clients. The adoption of this philosophy, while necessitating that colleges provide education on terms…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education, Attendance Patterns
Bergman, Irwin B. – 1978
Queensborough Community College (New York) is pilot-testing a learning clinic which, through the use of a multi-disciplinary faculty team, provides psycho-educational diagnosis to area youths with learning problems at no charge. The faculty team consists of individuals from the college's counseling, basic skills, and speech departments, along with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Colleges, Community Services
Download full textBell, James – 1980
In response to a low passing rate in a general psychology course taught at Howard Community College (MD), as well as to student and instructor dissatisfaction with the course, a systems model was developed and applied to improve course quality. The development of the model involved nine steps: (1) enumerating precise skill objectives which could…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges, Course Evaluation
Clavner, Jerry B. – 1979
Instructors of courses in mass society, culture, and communication start out facing three types of difficulties: the historical orientation of learning, the parochialism of various disciplines, and negative intellectually elitist attitudes toward mass culture/media. Added to these problems is the fact that many instructors have little or no…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Colleges, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Brender, Myron – 1979
Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of psychology can be employed to provide a continuity between the various subjects a student encounters in college. One approach--a total push remediation program--is exemplified by a project involving representatives of the psychology and physical education departments, as well as interested students, in…
Descriptors: Advertising, Elementary Education, Etymology, Fiction
Groff, Warren H. – 1979
This three-part report describes the development and operation of Project Care III, an interagency effort involving area colleges, unions, and industry, and state agencies in the retraining of 500 tire builders laid off in August 1978, when the Mansfield Tire and Rubber Company (Mansfield, Ohio) was shut down. Part I outlines the historical…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Career Counseling, Community Development
Nolan, Edwin J. – 1979
Although junior colleges were originally established to provide the first two years of collegiate instruction, the mission of today's community college includes providing not only transfer education, but also certificate or associate degree vocational programs, adult continuing education, and community services. Therefore, the community college…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, College Role, Community Colleges
Busha, Charles H. – 1978
An employer needs assessment involving 469 businesses and firms in Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens counties was conducted during 1978-79 by Tri-County Technical College (TCTC) to: (1) involve the business community in establishing TCTC's educational priorities; (2) determine discrepancies between area training needs and TCTC's curriculum; and (3)…
Descriptors: College Role, Educational Needs, Employer Attitudes, Employment Opportunities
Clark, George W. – 1980
Legislative and political issues are examined in this study of the forces governing the structure of control shared by the individual institutions of the California community college system (CCC) and various state agencies. The report first summarizes and compares the findings of three earlier studies of the college-state relationship: (1) William…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Collective Bargaining, Community Colleges, Governance
Elioff, Ione H. – 1980
A three-part study was conducted to help determine appropriate orientation and in-service activities for the part-time faculty of Vista College, a non-campus college in Berkeley, California. The first part of the study consisted of site visits to three other non-campus colleges. These visits revealed the colleges' commitment to professional…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty College Relationship
Washtenaw Community Coll., Ann Arbor, MI.
This self-instructional, self-paced module is the fourth of five in a series, Competency Based Education Inservice for Part Time Community College Occupational Education Teachers. (See note for other modules.) Its purpose is to enable teachers to select and evaluate learning activities and to implement them in the classroom using suitable…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Friedlander, Jack; Edwards, Sandra J. – 1980
Engineering instruction is examined as revealed in a study of science education at two-year colleges which involved a review of the literature, an analysis of the catalogs and class schedules of 175 institutions, and a survey of 144 engineering instructors. The report first presents a general profile of engineering technology education based on…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, Course Objectives
Chaffey Coll., Alta Loma, CA. – 1979
Various planning issues related to the development of a program to train paraprofessional counselors as Adult Career Development Specialists are considered in this four-part report. Part I presents a literature review dealing with the developmental tasks associated with the various stages of the adult life cycle, the need for new adult guidance…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Learning, Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees
COREY, GERALD F. – 1967
IN A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN VARIABLES ON THE OUTCOMES OF A COURSE IN INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY, PRETESTS AND POSTTESTS WERE ADMINISTERED TO 180 STUDENTS IN FOUR PSYCHOLOGY CLASSES AND TO 50 OTHERS. VARIABLES WERE CLASS SIZE, INSTRUCTOR, AND LECTURE VS. DISCUSSION METHOD, AND THE TESTS WERE MEASURES OF CHANGES IN STUDENTS' SELF-CONCEPT,…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Techniques, Conventional Instruction, Course Evaluation
MOHS, MILTON C. – 1962
THE PLACEMENT SERVICE, RECOGNIZED AS AN IMPORTANT JUNIOR COLLEGE FUNCTION, (1) ASSISTS STUDENTS IN RELATING THEIR QUALIFICATIONS TO OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENTS, (2) ASSISTS STUDENTS IN THEIR SEARCH FOR PART-TIME AND FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT, (3) COOPERATES WITH EMPLOYERS IN THE INDUCTION OF STUDENTS INTO PART-TIME AND CAREER POSITIONS, (4) SCREENS AND…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bibliographies, Career Guidance, Employment Interviews
