The Chabot College (California) Student Outcomes Report, fall 1996, is a compilation of data and trends in four major areas of the college's student outcomes: (1) course success and withdrawal; (2) persistence; (3) degree and certificate completion; and (4) transfer. These data provide information on all students, according to their status such as…

The Arrowhead Community College Region (ACCR), in Minnesota, conducted a follow-up study of its 1991 graduates designed to collect information on whether the graduates had found employment, were continuing their education, or had another placement status. Each college in the ACCR contacted its graduates to determine placement status, resulting in…

This report presents data on degrees conferred during the 1991-92 academic year by 3,615 of the nation's accredited higher education institutions. The data were a subset taken from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) which collects information on number of degrees conferred by level of award, field of study and sex of recipient.…

This report provides information on the number of degrees awarded at Colorado public universities and colleges. Comparisons are made to the base year of 1982-83, allowing for 10-year comparisons. Detail by ethnicity and gender are available beginning in fiscal year (FY) 1985-86 and analyses by institutional sector, by degree level, and by program…

This guide is designed to assist students who plan to transfer between the community colleges and universities comprising the University and Community College System of Nevada (UCCSN). The opening section of the guide provides general information on transfer, including admission to programs for Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, other…

This book describes the tech prep/associate degree initiative and illustrates its characteristics and promise through examples of collaborative efforts. Chapter 1 introduces a model or vision for tech prep and shows how it has grown from its vocational education roots to encompass a much broader educational spectrum. Chapter 2 addresses nine basic…

This document presents information on attrition and retention of students in the State University of New York (SUNY) for the class of 1988. Other types of data provided include partial history of other cohorts, and trends in attrition and retention since 1977. The data were collected through a SUNY 1990 Attrition/Retention Survey of constituent…

Part of a series of reports on undergraduate education in Illinois, this report focuses on transfer and articulation. The first section examines trends in transfer and after-transfer retention to baccalaureate degree completion of students who transferred from public community colleges to public universities. The second section traces the…

Using information submitted by individual campuses, this report provides data on 1988-90 enrollments and 1987/88-1989/90 completions at Massachusetts community colleges. Following introductory information on the collection and presentation of the data, the report provides tables of enrollments by college, race/ethnicity, gender, grade level,…

This manual on general education and common learning was prepared by and for the Dallas County Community College District's (DCCCD's) Committees for Common Learning (CCL's), which have been charged with reviewing the DCCCD's general education curriculum and degree requirements and making recommendations concerning common learning requirements and…

The Inferred Program Cost (IPC), a program evaluation indicator in use at Prince George's Community College (PGCC), represents the cost of one student completing the curriculum requirements for a degree or certificate program/option as specified in the current college catalog. The IFP for each program is the dollar amount representing the…

In light of the projected growth in the percentages of women and minorities in the work force, as well as the need for increased skills among workers, a project was developed to improve recruitment and retention of women and minorities in associate degree science and engineering technology programs. The project involved on-campus…

Using as its premise that access and excellence are mutually interdependent goals for urban community colleges, this monograph considers the direction and nature of programmatic responses to the needs of the constituencies of urban two-year colleges and the direction and quality of the research efforts required to measure institutional impact on…

This document consists of the materials presented at a one-day workshop dealing with a new concept in articulation between secondary and postsecondary institutions that involves two years of pretechnology education at the secondary level and two years of training in any one of a number of technical and high-technology fields at the postsecondary…

A discussion is provided of the contributions of the study of the humanities towards the improvement of community college occupational education. After section I provides background information on the creation of a Shared Vision Task Force by the National Council for Occupational Education (NCOE) and the Community College Humanities Association…