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Download full textCalifornia State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1984
This report contains the testimony of administrators, faculty, representatives of different sectors of higher education in California, and other interested individuals as presented to the Ad Hoc Committee on Community College Transfer of the California Postsecondary Education Commission. First, prefatory material provides information on the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Articulation (Education), College Presidents, College Transfer Students
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1985
As part of an annual statewide evaluation process, quantitative information on community college programs is reviewed by the Maryland State Board for Community Colleges. Subsequently, in particular cases, a qualitative assessment is conducted by individual community colleges in response to specific questions raised by the Board. This report…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Assessment
PDF pending restorationMorse, Susan C.; And Others. – 1986
A 1983-84 survey of migrant directors was conducted to provide information regarding the PASS (Portable Assisted Study Sequence) Program and to solicit recommendations regarding the role of the program in the secondary education of migrant students. Survey questionnaires were received from migrant programs in California, Arizona, Oregon, Arkansas,…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Administrative Policy, Articulation (Education), Comparative Analysis
Iowa State Dept. of Public Instruction, Des Moines. – 1976
This document compiles information on the Iowa area school system, which includes 13 area community colleges and 2 area vocational schools. The first section reviews the general and legislative history of the junior college movement in Iowa, the current status of the system, and enrollment growth for the period 1966 through 1976. The second…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational History, Enrollment Trends
Bass, Gail V. – 1978
This study analyzes the establishment of public alternative schools and programs from the perspective of school district management. An alternative school or program is defined as one that is full-time, is available to students on a voluntary basis, and is in some way distinctive from the district's standard program. Chapter 1 is introductory.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Free Choice Transfer Programs
Cohen, Arthur M. – 1980
Community colleges, in order to maintain a credible place within higher education during the 1980's, will have to integrate arts and sciences instruction into a curriculum provided for an increasing percentage of non-transfer students. This increase, due to an expected intensification of the competition from universities for a shrinking pool of…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Role, Community Colleges, Course Objectives
Lombardi, John – 1980
Despite some initial hesitancy in the first half of the twentieth century to award associate degrees, since the end of World War II, the associate degree has become as widely accepted by two-year colleges as the baccalaureate degree is by four-year colleges. This is evidenced by the steady increase in the number of associate degrees awarded…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Associate Degrees, College Role, Community Colleges
KNOELL, DOROTHY M.; MEDSKER, LELAND L. – 1965
IN THIS NATIONAL STUDY OF THE PREDICTION OF SUCCESS OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENT, THE AUTHORS FOUND THAT HIS SUCCESS DEPENDED ON THE INTERACTION OF MANY VARIABLES, SUCH AS HIS OWN ATTRIBUTES AND THOSE OF THE SENIOR INSTITUTION, ITS ACADEMIC STANDARDS AND GENERAL CLIMATE, AND THE ALTERNATIVES OFFERED THE STUDENT. THESE FINDINGS SUGGEST…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Counseling Services
Central Arizona Coll., Coolidge. – 1980
College-wide and departmental goals are outlined for 1980 through 1985 in this master plan for Central Arizona College (CAC). The plan first presents CAC's institutional philosophy and then outlines 40 college-wide goals in terms of service objectives and desired outcomes. Population projections through 1985 for CAC's service district are followed…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Administration, College Planning, College Role
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
Project Concern in Hartford bused approsimately 260 inner city children to suburban elementary schools. The project was designed to evaluate experimentally the effects of (1) placement in a suburban school with or without remedial-supportive assistance and (2) placement in an inner city school with or without compensatory services. Criterion…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects
Laing, James M., Comp. – 1969
This report begins with summaries of the ten popular desegregation plan strategies implemented after the 1954 Supreme Court decision. These strategies encompass the following: neighborhood schools, educational parks, voluntary transfer, gerrymandering attendance zones, closing minority schools, pupil assignment, organization by grades (Princeton…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Community Schools, Decentralization, Desegregation Litigation
Hawthorne, Phyllis; Lins, L.J. – 1969
A comprehensive survey of the 63 schools in Wisconsin offering vocational, technical, and adult education courses in the 1967-68 school year was conducted to obtain a description of current programs. A total of 186,665 students were enrolled. Complete data were obtained on 34 schools. Some study highlights were: (1) New resident students…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Associate Degrees, Enrollment
Mahan, Aline M.; Mahan, Thomas W. – 1969
The Hartford Project Concern attempted to discover if the educational deficits so persistent among minority group inner city children can be prevented or corrected by placement in a suburban school. Two hundred and sixty six were randomly selected by classroom units from those schools with 85 percent or more non-white population and were…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Environment
Felice, Lawrence G. – 1974
This paper reports findings from the first two years of a 3-year study to evaluate the effects of court-ordered busing in Waco, Texas. The objective of this study is to determine minority student achievement gains or losses, attitudes toward busing and school desegregation, the degree of interracial cooperation and acceptance in Waco schools, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Busing, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Crain, Robert L. – 1973
Volume 2 of the evaluation report of the effects of ESAP comprises 5 working papers resulting from the evaluators' decision to explore the variety of research problems relevant to desegregation and policy making that they met with during the evaluation process. The first two papers deal with race relations in desegregated Southern schools: the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Attitudes, Bus Transportation
