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Download full textFillmore, Emery – 1991
Each semester in the 136 state-supported community colleges in California, counselors are involved in developing, maintaining, and/or revising hundreds of programs that may or may not result in helping students move efficiently through the system. Developed as a resource for administrators and counselors charged with improving community college…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Community Colleges, Counselor Role, Educational Counseling
Livieratos, Barbara B.; Frank, Jean M. – 1992
Howard Community College (HCC), in Maryland, surveyed telecourses and Weekend College (WC) students to collect information on their characteristics and satisfaction. Surveys were conducted for each set of students, obtaining a 34% response rate (n=109) among telecourse students and a 47% response rate (n=75) among weekend students. Results of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Distance Education
Takahata, Gail – 1993
A study was conducted at San Diego City College (SDCC) in California to evaluate the college's Critical Thinking and Writing Center, one of the components of SDCC's comprehensive plan to improve student outcomes. Five indicators of student success were examined for two semesters using a student tracking system: retention, semester-to-semester…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking
Soltz, Donald F. – 1992
In order to determine the number of Johnson County Community College (JCCC) students transferring to four-year institutions, records were obtained from 11 of 14 regional institutions most often accepting JCCC transfers. In addition, all JCCC students who had requested transcripts sent to a four-year institution between 1989 and 1990 were sent a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Role, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Banatao, Maria; Criddle, Vicky L. – 1992
Despite the tremendous growth of the ethnic community in Santa Clara County, California, very few minorities are employed in city and county government. The Minorities In Government Internship Project (MIGIP) was established to place minority vocational students with a minimum of 12 quarter units in their major in administrative, technical and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Government Employees, Government School Relationship, Internship Programs
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1993
As part of an ongoing effort to evaluate the success of occupational program completers in the Illinois Community College System (ICCS), a survey was conducted in March 1993 of 2,641 students who graduated from 14 broad occupational program areas in the 49 ICCS institutions in 1992. The survey examined graduates' attendance objectives, educational…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Graduate Surveys
Jones, Enid B., Ed. – 1991
In 1989, a joint project was undertaken by the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, the National Center for Academic Achievement and Transfer, the Center on Community College Education, and the Center for the Study of Community Colleges to disseminate data and research findings on the transfer of two-year college students to…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Data Collection
Harr, Gary Lynn – 1990
Florida Community College at Jacksonville's (FCCJ's) "A Learning Enhancement and Retention Tracking" (ALERT) system is a computerized retention program which collects and utilizes a range of retention-related information to help students achieve their goals. Upon application for admission, students complete an ALERT Advising and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Ancillary School Services
Soltz, Donald F. – 1993
In order to determine the number of Johnson County Community College (JCCC) students transferring to four-year institutions and their academic performance at the institutions, records were obtained from 10 of 11 regional institutions most often accepting JCCC transfers. In addition, questionnaires were mailed to the 1,403 JCCC students who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Role, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Mellissinos, Melissa – 1993
A study was conducted to examine relationships between community college transfer and curricula by analyzing course offerings at the remedial and advanced levels. The study analyzed the Center for the Study of Community Colleges' National Curriculum Database, containing data on 1991 liberal arts course offerings for 164 representative community…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Articulation (Education), College Curriculum, College Transfer Students
Avalos, Juan; Pavel, D. Michael – 1993
Community colleges play a major role in improving the access of Hispanic students to higher education, with roughly 56% of all college-going Hispanics attending these institutions. Relatively few however, have attained a postsecondary degree of any kind. A study of 145 community colleges found that Hispanic student retention was influenced by such…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Ancillary School Services, College Transfer Students
Williams, Fred D. – 1993
Jackson State Community College (JSCC) is a state supported institution in rural West Tennessee under federal mandate to increase the proportion of black enrollments to reflect the proportion of blacks in the college's service area. In response to the mandate and to declining enrollments in general, a project was undertaken to develop a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Black Students, Community Colleges
Carpenter, Don A., Ed. – Focus: A Forum on Teaching and Learning in Utah Community Colleges, 1993
This volume of an annual publication concerning issues relevant to Utah's two-year colleges provides the following articles by community college faculty on instructional issues and methods: (1) "Teaching Real-World Math Concepts in an Introductory Algebra Telecourse," by Loretta Palmer; (2) "Collaborative Learning in the Community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation
Burgett, Maxine – 1993
In an attempt to better serve the diverse educational needs of both traditional and non-traditional college students, a self-directed learning process plan was implemented in two community college early childhood education classes. The process began with an informal introductory meeting between instructor and students, followed by individual…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Early Childhood Education, Education Courses, Educational Needs
Pirozzoli, Don – 1993
The growing emphasis on accountability and the demand for better prepared students is pressing institutions of higher education to examine restructuring. Student experiences represent an important arena for school restructuring, and a useful approach to changing student experiences is the Tech Prep Mapping (TPM) process. The TPM process requires…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation
