In the years since the Williamsport Area Community College's Graphic Arts Program was last revised, the graphic arts industry has been changed by an influx of new technologies. The graphic arts program and curriculum was revised to provide graduates with skills required by the industry. The objectives of this revision were to (1) identify…

Implementation of program evaluation recommendations should persuade people that the rewards of an evaluation outweigh the reasons for resistance. A study was undertaken with the following purposes: identify facilitators and barriers to the implementation of program evaluation; determine the proportion of recommendations made in each of the nine…

This report describes a program which provided on-campus seminars and workshops at the College of Staten Island, Kingsborough Community College, and Hostos Community College in New York. The program was designed to improve recruitment and especially retention of women and minorities in associate degree science and engineering-related programs.…

Reasons for the job selections of 64 associate degree nursing graduates were examined in a pilot study at Purdue University. The basic research question was whether nursing graduates initially view "maintenance" or motivational factors as more important. Based on Herzberg's theory of motivation, information is provided on maintenance or hygiene…

This student handbook describes the process and components of Whatcom Community College's Individualized Degree Program (IDP), which offers students the opportunity to design an associate degree or certificate plan to meet their educational goals. After introductory material presents a history of the IDP's development and the purpose of the…

Describes a survey of 34 accredited engineering schools located in the northeastern United States. The survey indicated that students transferring with two-year technology degrees into four-year baccalaureate programs in engineering can expect to lose from one to one and a half years of credit from their prior education. (MLH)

Describes the engineering technology programs of the North Carolina Community College System. The 16 curricula classified as engineering technologies are offered in 34 institutions for a total of more than 100 separate programs. (MLH)

The results of analyzing age-income distributions by educational categories with cost data suggest that the rates of return have not decreased over the 1960's and that the return to those completing two-year programs may be much higher than previously thought. (Author/MW)

Catawba Valley Technical Institute, located in Hickory, North Carolina where 45 percent of the population is employed by the furniture industry, presently offers two associate degree and two vocational diploma programs. A campus furniture factory, close institute and industry cooperation, and extensive in-plant training have contributed to the…

Focusing on "Associate Degree Nursing--Facilitating Competency Development," a 3-year project sponsored by the Midwest Alliance in Nursing (MAIN) to explore and recommend ways of strengthening Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) education and service, these proceedings contain papers by individuals involved with the development of the project and those…

General education requirements in the humanities at American colleges and universities were studied by the Higher Education Panel in spring 1984, based on usable surveys returned by 374 of the 454 institutions to which the survey had been sent. Data from the colleges were statistically weighted to reflect the national population of 2,566…

In the late 1970's and early 1980's, Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) implemented a series of academic reforms, including the adoption of minimum academic standards, mandatory basic skills testing, and the establishment of new general education course requirements. In order to assess the success of the reforms in shaping the curricular patterns…

This paper discusses current differences in the nursing education community regarding the roles of associate degree and baccalaureate degree nurses and presents a critique of the "Position Paper on Nursing Roles--Scope and Preparation" issued in 1982 by the National League for Nursing (NLN). After a discussion of the history and…

In 1981, each of the 30 State University of New York (SUNY) community colleges collected follow-up data on its 1980 graduates, using varying survey instruments. Overall findings, based on a statewide response rate of 72%, included the following: (1) 90.2% of the respondents had either transferred to a four-year college or found employment; (2) of…

A project was conducted to develop and implement a curriculum for a series of group sessions designed to assist students in associate degree nursing programs in the socialization process of becoming a nurse. During the curriculum development phase of the project, specific plans and procedures were formulated for 10 monthly sessions that were…