Describes Miami-Dade Community College's Emphasis on Excellence program, which offers high ability students scholarships, honors classes, seminars with distinguished visiting professors, opportunities for program acceleration, cultural events, creative activities, and and special services and recognition. Highlights the program's components and…

Describes a study of factors related to student attrition at the University of Akron's General College and Community and Technical College. Analyzes data on persisters/nonpersisters, males/females, and traditional/nontraditional students with respect to major, full-/part-time status, time of attendance, goals, and satisfaction with the college.…

Discusses women students' needs in higher education by analyzing the responses of 500 women university students to a survey on role models and conflict in their roles as student, employee, mate, and family member. Relates study findings to the needs of community college students. (WL)

Investigated (1) changes in community college students' (N=208) attitudes toward introductory biology, school, and academic self and (2) relationships between attitudes/achievement (measured by Nelson Biology Test and course grade). Data indicated that while cognitive behavior was changed during the course, attitudes either stayed the same or…

Examines the discrepancy between the attitudes of born-again and fundamentalist Christian college students and what they sometimes perceive to be offensive secular views inherent to the college literature classroom. Discusses recommendations for literature teachers to help accommodate students with outspoken religious beliefs to the course…

Presents achievements of the Community College of Denver's Center for the Physically Disadvantaged, which provides blind, deaf, brain-damaged, and wheelchair students with vocational evaluations, health services, instructional support, counseling, and job placement. Emphasizes special attitudes, resourcefulness, and commitment instead of…

Describes Honolulu Community College's Providing Options for Neglected Adults Program which prepares developmentally disabled adults for employment outside of sheltered workshops. Examines the need for such programs, the students' progress during 1979-80 and three program components--noncredit courses, work experiences, and student-peer support.…

Reveals that 7 percent of the community college population has some type of special education need. Outlines steps taken in various schools to serve learning disabled students and discusses some of the drawbacks to establishing and maintaining adequate programs and services. (AYC)

Reconsiders the community college's "cooling out" function in higher education and the less desirable alternatives of preselection, transfer-track selection, open failure, guaranteed graduation, reduction of transfer-terminal distinctions, and elimination of two-year colleges. Reviews literature using and abusing the "cooling…

A study conducted during the 1977-78 academic year in four Oregon community colleges indicated that mathematics proficiency is related to success in first-quarter chemistry, but that beginning students do not have strong mathematics skills. (BB)

A study of construct validity of the eight Quality of Effort scales resulting from the Community College Student Experiences Questionnaire in its 1990-94 administrations found the scales can be used to make valid and reliable inferences regarding students' efforts and involvement, and the validity is not conditional on vocational or transfer…

Describes how Los Rios Community College District (LRCCD), California, the major provider of nursing graduates to the Sacramento area, addressed the issue of the nursing shortage crisis. LRCCD faced the dual issues of student/faculty ratio restrictions of 10/1 and funding that accommodated a 40/1 ratio. Describes LRCCD's new off-campus,…

Reviews literature on learning styles and describes the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Discusses a study utilizing the Kolb LSI to determine the learning styles and characteristics of community college art students. Identifies two main groups: younger males interested in majoring in art and older females taking noncredit courses. (10…

Describes three relational patterns of community college students in their course experience: survivor, adjustor, and encounterer. Uses Passmore's theory of closed and open capacities as a framework for a model of planning and implementing instruction to move students from survivors or adjustors to encounterers. (Contains 12 references.) (AUTH/NB)

Used canonical correlation methods to investigate the relationship between social power motivation and personality characteristics in 126 women and 50 men at a community college. Results from men seemed to describe the approach motive, whereas results from women seemed to describe a fear or avoidance motive. (TE)