This curriculum study focuses on the subject areas of English, mathematics, accounting, shorthand, and typewriting at Kapiolani Community College, Oahu, Hawaii. The author traces the inclusion of these areas in the business education program, as the college evolved from a technical school to a comprehensive junior college. One notable aspect of…

Under the stress of today's extremely complex and diverse pressures, "college administrators have been abandoning institutions of higher education like rats from a sinking ship." College presidents need to be able to obtain significant information about their institutions in order to make decisions sufficiently viable for the institution's…

The administrative structure, organization of the faculty, and the student government at Harrisburg Area Community College (Pennsylvania) are explored in this monograph, which is the first of five studies written around the theme, "meeting the changing needs of students." Since its inception in 1964, the college has attempted to develop…

This paper, fourth in a series of five monographs prepared by Harrisburg Area Community College to illustrate how the college is attempting to "meet the changing needs of students," presents the counseling program and describes the creative approach being used. The program has three main divisions, consisting of the faculty advisors,…

Institutional research studies at Harcum Junior College (Pennsylvania) include alumnae comments and achievements, student academic achievement, curriculum and college characteristics, student characteristics, and student views. The author emphasizes the importance of hiring faculty on the basis of teaching ability as well as research achievements.…

This Statement of Goals for Vanier College is comprised of two sections: Section A. A Statement of Goals for Vanier College, and Section B. Appendix. In Section A, the four chapters are: Backgrounder--An introduction to the Statement of Goals; Overview--Broad guidelines, within which the Statement of Goals must be considered; A Statement of…

The University Opinion Poll conducted a two-stage survey of campus bicycle usage and opinions toward campus bicycle facilities. In the first stage, 952 persons, 78% of a random sample of students and staff reported their commuting habits and opinions about campus bicycle lanes. In the second stage, 139 persons, 84% of a sample of student and staff…

The basic structure and concepts of a system for training program staff in self-evaluation are described. This training system aims to be competency-based and largely self-instructive. This paper is the first component in the training system and serves as an introduction and description of the rest of the system. (Author)

To determine how selected community colleges with institutional research offices have organized the office to implement institutional research, incorporated the office into the institutional structure, assigned responsibility for institutional research, determined priorities for research projects, and assessed the value of outcomes of research…

This annotated bibliography is organized into five sections that correspond to the following questions: What factors cause a need for institutional research? What are or should be the objectives of institutional research? What is or should be the typical subject matter of institutional research? What is or should be the impact of institutional…

In the spirit of self-evaluation and self-improvement, Dr. Walter Weber, president of the Third College Senate, appointed an Ad Hoc Committee last April. The committee was charged with the responsibility of creating an instrument to gather information on the opinions and habits of the Senate's constituents in relation to the entire spectrum of…

The central concept of this report is that total institutional expenditures must be reduced by nearly $10 billion a year by 1980. It presents a factual and and statistical analysis of how universities can utilize all their resources to combat financial crises in a period of declining growth rate. (MJM)

Institutional research in the junior-community college is discussed as related to the following questions: (1) What is institutional research? (2) Why has there been such an emphasis on it in recent years?; (3) What should be the goals and guiding principles of a community college institutional research operation? (4) Where should the…

This monograph was a preliminary investigation of the parameters of faculty perceptions of the legitimacy of governance. It was in part a test of an untried method for measuring those perceptions. The results suggest several conclusions: (1) In assessing dynamics of collegiate governance, it is necessary to take type of institution and issue…

This report contains a collection of papers concerning institutional research for stabilizing and declining enrollments which were presented at the 1973 Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Annual Forum in Vancouver, B.C. in May 1973. The topics include the role of institutional research in the planning process; enrollment projection…