A study was conducted at a suburban multi-campus community college in southeastern Michigan to determine the differences in demographic and academic characteristics between those students receiving Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOG) and those financially independent students not receiving BEOG funds. The demographic and academic variables…

In order to provide a fall 1976 student profile and to determine the college's market penetration, William Rainey Harper College drew a random sample of 400 traditional credit and 194 continuing education students, representing respectively 3.2% and 2.4% of the total student population. Traditional credit students averaged 27 years of age; 57.8%…

During the fall 1978 semester, 505 students participated in a pre-test/post-test research study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a remedial English course, COM 080, at Essex County College. The instruments used for the study were the essay portion of the New Jersey Basic Skills Placement Test, the Test of Adult Basic Education, and a…

A survey of two random samples of 500 students drawn from lists of returning and non-returning students at Triton College was conducted to study student retention between Fall 1978 and Spring 1979. Data, gathered from 248 returning and 159 non-returning respondents, were analyzed in terms of: (1) student educational intent, (2) reasons for…

In view of the lack of information on special programs for the hearing impaired in Arizona community colleges, a survey, based on the exemplary special programs at the University of Arizona and at Pima Community College, was sent to the 15 community colleges in the state. The survey investigated the following areas: the program supervisor, the…

A follow-up study was conducted among new students at West Los Angeles College (WLAC) to identify student characteristics, educational goals, and objectives; and to relate these characteristics to student attrition. Subjects for the study were 483 first-time freshmen enrolled at WLAC in Fall 1977. This initial sample was surveyed again one year…

The principal objective of this five-year longitudinal study was to determine the efficacy of employing the Omnibus Personality Inventory (OPI) and the American College Testing (ACT) program scores in designing a predictive model for identifying entering community college freshmen students' propensity to fall into one of three categories:…

Fourteen Texas colleges and 18,944 students participated in this study of students' educational intent through questionnaires completed during registration for fall 1976. For occupational/technical majors (31% of respondents), primary educational goals included preparation for "job to be obtained" (51%), improvement of existing job…

The scores of 1,907 entering freshmen on the Survey of Reading Achievement (advanced grades 9-12) were examined in the fall of 1976 at Los Angeles City College. Important findings included: (1) a 10th grade median reading level; (2) slightly better performance by males; (3) an average of 9.5 grade level for first-time enrollees (71%); (4) a…

The many problems connected with successful implementation of community college open enrollment involve students, faculty, college resources and basic processes. Together they constitute the challenge posed by open enrollment to administrators. Problems relative to students include low reading and writing abilities, low levels of preparedness and…

A determination of the reading grade placement levels (GPLs) and final course grades of community college students in relationship to the GPLs of their assigned social science textbooks was the focus of a study at Citrus Community College (Florida). Dale-Chall readability placement levels were calculated for eight textbooks used in 19 classes of…

The objectives of this research project were to: (1) replicate and update data gathered in 1969 about North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) credit students; (2) provide a similar profile of non-credit students; (3) provide a profile of all North Carolina adults (over 18) in 1970 to serve as a comparison basis; (4) examine student value…

This study tested the hypothesis that regular communication students are oriented to more symbols and their meanings than are developmental communication students and thus have more ways to receive information. One-hundred students (50 regular and 50 developmental) at Central Piedmont Community College were given the 220-item Cognitive Style…

This study examines the responses of the 1,474 students who withdraw from Los Angeles City College during the spring semesters of 1973, 1974, and 1975, and who completed the exit questionnaire. In spring 1975, 65 percent of the withdrawees were of non-Caucasian background, and 46 percent were male. About 40 percent of the males, and 20 percent of…

The annual statewide student follow-up studies conducted in Maryland are designed to establish a longitudinal data base on students attending Maryland community colleges, to identify student educational objectives at the time of entry, to provide an evaluation of Maryland's community colleges, and to establish a student-to-institution information…