Three research projects supervised by the Research Committee of the Texas Association of Junior College Instructional Administrators are reported. The first, "Selected Aspects of Internal Decision-Making in Public -Supported Community Colleges in Texas as Perceived by Administrators. Faculty Members, and Student Leaders, involved the use of questionnaires in determining differences between the perceptions of the three groups. The second, "A Study of the Management Systems of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Two Year Colleges
A 9-item questionnaire was given to registering students for fall and spring 1969. For easier handling, its form was changed for the next semester. By accident, the two versions were handed out and 687 students answered both in quick succession. The staff decided to compare the two forms to see if the answers differed. Two questions were considered unsuitable for comparison. For the other seven, the frequency of differing replies ranged from 16 to 66%. Three possible explanations were offered:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Questionnaires, Reliability, Two Year Colleges
This is a report on the efforts of a junior college to provide high school students with information about the new technologies and to stimulate interest in college attendance. Results of the "Pre-College Seminar," which operated as if it were a professional conference, indicate that a general education course in technology can provide information not otherwise available to high school students, and that it can encourage them to enroll in college. Information for structuring similar...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Technical Education, Two Year Colleges
For this survey, 602 public 2-year colleges and 251 non-public colleges were asked to participate; the response was 496 and 153 respectively. Of these, 321 public and 38 private schedules were used in this report. It details the most widespreac characteristics of the public colleges; minimum, maximum, and increment structures; allowance for previous experience; requirements for academic or professional upgrading; qualifications for promotion to faculty rank; and salary stratification within...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Faculty, Salaries, Two Year Colleges
Articles contributed by the teachers and administrators at Chicago City College are presented in this report. Topics include: Students, Faculty, A View of General Education, Occupational Education, Collective Comprehensiveness, Innovation Plan for Crane Campus, Fiscal Resources, Governance, Administration and Organization, A Note on Community Services, A View on Decentralization, Learning Resource Centers, Physical Education, and Student Personnel Services at CCC. (MB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Master Plans, Two Year Colleges
This report contains the evaluation data gathered by a junior college faculty in preparation for state accreditation. The report includes a statement of philosophy, and evaluates the following areas of the college: organization and administration, student personnel services, curriculum, instruction, and college atmosphere. (JC)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), Two Year Colleges
When the Program with Developing Institutions was funded for a second year, it was decided to hold a national conference at Vincennes University, plus subsequent regional meetings, on the new faculty development program. It was to stress change in relation to faculty development and improved instruction, with a chance for small-group discussions. Main addresses were on reasons for change, process of affecting change, innovative colleges, challenge of educational technology, change in a small...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Developing Institutions, Faculty, Two Year Colleges
This series of tables analyzes the enrollment of males, females, and totals of both day and evening classes of two colleges for two semesters. These eleven student characteristics are measured: (1) total students enrolled, (2) age: 21 and under, over 21 years; (3) high school: graduate, non-graduate; (4) goal: transfer, terminal; (5) other college experience: yes, no; (6) unit load: up to 11.5, 12 and over, non-credit; (7) student declared major: agriculture, business, language and literature,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Enrollment, Student Characteristics, Two Year Colleges
This report presents a "cookbook" approach to assist any teacher or researcher not familiar with statistics in comparing performance differences between two classes using group medians. Illustrations are provided for comparing group medians in hypothetical situations in several disciplines (English, math, philosophy, political science). (JC)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Evaluation, Statistics, Two Year Colleges, Connor, Aikin
This document presents a set of ten newsletters, entitled "Connections," published by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District from September 1997 through December 1998. The following articles appear in the newsletters: "Futurist Wolfe,""Local Success Fong," and "Fourth Annual Day at the 'Stick Is a Big Hit"; "Heat on HVAC,""Advocate Mason," and "Community Building"; "Jay Jackman,""A1 Bond Rating,"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Newsletters, School Districts, Two Year Colleges
Designed for students at Austin Community College, these four handouts summarize the major citation formats used today, including a social sciences format (American Psychological Association), a sciences format (Council of Biology Editors), the standard Turabian format, and the Modern Language Association (MLA) format. One side of each handout provides examples of footnotes or in-text citations, while the other side shows how to cite various types of materials in a bibliography. The sheets...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Citations (References), Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges
Since the author felt that junior college athletic awards should not necessarily follow senior college practices, he conducted a survey. He sought the opinion of 110 athletes, coaches, and athletic directors. Of the 80 replies, he tabulated 25 from each category of respondent. On nine statements, they agreed, disagreed, or held no opinion. After examining the replies, the author recommended that (1) 2-year colleges should give awards to athletes only on intercollegiate teams; (2) the first...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, Physical Education, Two Year Colleges, Farkouh, Nicholas
This is the second in a series of annual presentations on the innovative, experimental, and research activities conducted at Santa Fe Junior College. The studies include: classroom activities, college-wide research, short statements on different instructional approaches to formal dissertation abstracts, subjective observations, intricate experimental designs, and an up-dating of reports presented in last year's publication (ED 034 513). Contributors include faculty, administrative staff...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experiments, Institutional Research, Research Projects, Two Year Colleges
Tollowing a brief description of the purposes of tenure, the policy adopted by the College of the Mainland (Texas) in July 1967 was presented. The policy outlines: who is eligible to receive tenure, the rights of those who have received tenure, and the criteria and procedure used by the president for recommending tenure. (MB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Contracts, Teacher Employment, Tenure, Two Year Colleges
The Junior College, typically considered an American creation, is an institution whose inception and early development was greatly affected by a variety of Western European influences. English and Scottish elements during the Colonial period, and the influence of French ideas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries had significant impact on the development of the philosophical perspectives and "personality" of the junior college. Germanic influences (particularly on the early...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Chronicles, Educational History, Two Year Colleges, Getty, Ronald
From the conference proceedings, certain main topics were chosen for this report. They include: Paul Miller's talk on the changing structure of higher education; a session with three U.S. Office of Education personnel on the submission of sound proposals for obtaining federal funds; William G. Shannon's speech on just what a developing college is; John P. Mallan's comments on federal programs for junior colleges; Robert P. Malcolm's address on the AAJC Facilities Information Service; remarks...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Developing Institutions, Two Year Colleges, Workshops
AAJC became the coordinator between USOE and colleges needing help (under Title III), after lack of expertise by those needing it most had become apparent in applications for federal funds. Agreement was reached on an extensive 3-part program: expert consultants to help colleges assess their strengths, weaknesses, and potential; national and regional meetings for exchange of ideas; year-round flow of information. The funds for 85 colleges (and selected associates) were handled expeditiously....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Consultants, Developing Institutions, Two Year Colleges, Workshops
An advisory committee is generally comprised of persons outside the education profession who have specialized knowledge in a given area. The committee advises, makes recommendations, and gives service to the college and its students, instructors, and administrators. At Black Hawk College, there are four types of advisory committees: community, program, special (ad Hoc), and affiliate (interinstitutional). Qualifications of advisory committee members include: experience, adequate time, and good...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advisory Committees, Community Colleges, Guides, Two Year Colleges
The set of standards contained in this bulletin was approved by the Maryland State Board of Education in March 1969. The standards were designed to implement provisions of certain sections of laws relating to the establishment and operation of the state's 2-year colleges. The bulletin also contains paragraphs on definition of terms, purposes and objectives, admissions, faculty, instruction, curriculum, library, laboratories, graduation, catalog and announcements, student welfare and activities,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Planning, State Legislation, State Standards, Two Year Colleges
Preparation of teachers for the junior college, which is the fastest growing segment of American higher education, was the topic of the second Missouri Valley Conference. Roger H. Garrison reported that the evolving status of the junior college locates the junior college teacher's position between the high school teacher and the college professor, but the pragmatism of junior college instructional aims--producing transferable students as well as technical and lower level management...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Teacher Education, Two Year Colleges
Papers and addresses presented at this junior college conference included: the planning of statewide subject-are conferences, long-range master planning of curricula and campuses, workshop for admission officers and registrars, the use of advisory committees, uniform accounting practices, proposed state legislation, community services, responsibility of the college to the socioeconomically deprived, academic preparation of the faculty, a master of arts program in teaching for the instructors,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Two Year Colleges, Darnes, G. Robert, Ed.
This institutional self-study, prepared as an application for accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, may serve as a model for others making similar application. Introductory material includes a model of the new campus; names of trustees, administrators, state regents, and committee members; and a preface commenting on the college in transition from an 80-year-old private school to a public 2-year comprehensive community college. Subsequent sections...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), Institutional Research, Two Year Colleges
This study compares two groups--Bronx Community College graduates who went, as juniors, to City College of New York and to Hunter (Bronx) in September 1965 and 60 native juniors at the same two upper-division colleges. At CCNY there was a slight difference in graduation rate between transfers and natives; at Hunter (Bronx), there was none. Of the transfers, 72% lost no credits; 21% lost up to four credits; only three students lost 10 or more credits. The comparison of academic performance takes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Followup Studies, Transfer Students, Two Year Colleges
Five personality scales, developed without regard to theory, were administered to 96 high school students. The correlations of these scales with four standard measures of academic achievement were compared with personality-achievement correlations from previous studies that used personality scales derived theoretically. These latter correlations were no larger, a result interpreted to mean that personality-achievement correlations are not enhanced by the use of theoretically derived personality...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement, Prediction, Testing, Two Year Colleges, Levonian, Edward
This speech for the Council of Community College Boards of the National School Boards Association emphasizes the role men play in determining the results of professional negotiations. Positing that one gets the kind of negotiations he chooses, the author presents two models for negotiation and details the attitudes and behaviors appropriate to each. One model, Distributive Bargaining, is characterized by the struggle for power and often produces results unsatisfactory to both sides. The other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Collective Bargaining, Two Year Colleges, Keck, Donald J.
This pamphlet provides information for those who may be interested in working in the junior college field and those in the colleges who are looking for staff for their campuses. Opportunities are plentiful in either the large public colleges, with their diverse student bodies and curricula, or in the smaller independent institutions. Those interested in administration will have a chance to work on new programs, new facilities, and growing community services, and to develop their own imaginative...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Selection, Faculty Recruitment, Salaries, Two Year Colleges
The speaker traces the history of early academies in New York State, with their several forms and functions, until the establishment of the public community college under the State University Law of 1948. Its students now make up 60% of the University's enrollment. According to the State Regents, it should (1) be supported as providing a broader public post-secondary educational opportunity; (2) be open to all high-school graduates (or equivalent), operated at low cost, and reasonably...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Relevance (Education), Two Year Colleges, Doran, Kenneth T.
These procedures--developed by a special commission of the National Faculty Association of Community and Junior Colleges--describe the frequency, nature, process, and scope of such actions. The criteria and methods of evaluation are set at an initial conference between the evaluation team and the faculty member, and the college is obligated to make a genuine effort to assist each member in the improvement of his instruction. If a faculty member's contract is recommended for non-renewal by the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Discipline Policy, Disqualification, Faculty Evaluation, Two Year Colleges
This is an updated version of "Selected References for New Junior College Presidents and Board Members," an unpublished document prepared in 1967 by the Subcommittee on Operational Data for Junior College Administrators of the American Association of Junior Colleges (AAJC). The introduction contains instructions for ordering ERIC documents, information on how to use the ERIC system, a list of the ERIC clearinghouses, and instructions for ordering AAJC publications. The bibliography is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Two Year Colleges, Giles, Louise, Ed.
This study reports an attempt to determine the nature and extent of relationships between total grade point average and grades in selected courses with ACT scores and the students' status as high school graduates. In general, it was found that the predictors for individual courses were more accurate than predictors for grade point averages. A correlation of about .60 appears to be the highest that can be expected when grades and grade point averages are the criteria. Conclusions include the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade Prediction, Two Year Colleges, Hendrix, Vernon L.
This Review describes ways to examine various aspects of community college libraries. Little research has been done on the reasons for success or failure of certain procedures or of certain administrative or organizational forms. The criteria most often used for successful library service in the junior college (size of collection, size of staff, space, circulation figures) are called "process" criteria, and their use is analogous to judging an instructional program by the number of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Libraries, Library Services, Two Year Colleges, Mathies, Lorraine
A questionnaire-opinionnaire survey of 68 junior colleges in 30 states, explored questions such as the amount and type of protest on junior college campuses, the extent of faculty and nonstudent involvement, the degree of institutional planning for protest situations, opinions concerning the relative lack of protest on junior college campuses, and opinions concerning successful approaches to student unrest. It revealed conclusions such as: (1) student unrest activities are primarily...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activism, Questionnaires, Two Year Colleges, Jones, Milton O.
This report summarizes the results of an instructor-rating scale, which was distributed to students at a California junior college. Reported are individual instructor's average scores on seventeen items, the individual instructor's average score on all of the items rated, the overall instructor's average score on each item, and the overall instructor's average score on all of the items. A copy of the scale is included. (JC)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Rating Scales, Teacher Evaluation, Two Year Colleges
The five parts of this report are: research on instruction; faculty dissertations; inter-institutional research; in-college research; and college-endorsed research. The first covers experiments in teaching French, practical nursing, English, math, and chemistry, and in giving examinations. Faculty dissertations include studies of post-graduate activities of student government officers; effects of seating arrangements in counseling; confirmation experiences related to self-image; concepts of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experiments, Institutional Research, Research Projects, Two Year Colleges
AN EXAMPLE OF AN ADOPTED BUDGET FOR A JUNIOR COLLEGE OF MEDIUM SIZE IS PRESENTED IN TABULAR FORM, SHOWING CHANGES IN FINANCES OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS, PLUS AN ESTIMATE FOR THE COMING YEAR. THE FIGURES ARE GIVEN IN DOLLAR VALUES AND IN PERCENTAGES FOR ALL SOURCES OF INCOME AND, IN DETAIL, FOR TEN MAJOR CATEGORIES OF EXPENDITURE. (HH)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgets, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Income, Two Year Colleges
The research done on junior colleges by graduate students at Northern Illinois University during 1968-69 is summarized. The seventeen papers reproduced here are those made available in written form by speakers at various conferences on the junior college. The subjects covered include: a commentary on the community college board member, a communications/behavioral approach to the basic speech course, speech courses and programs, the associate nursing program, adult education in the junior...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Educational Research, Speeches, Two Year Colleges
This evaluative study focused on a program of nine-week courses in English writing skills which has been part of the English curriculum at City College (California) since 1966. After a review of the historical development and the rationale for the courses, results from a student questionnaire, from a retrospective comparison of students who had taken the courses with others who had not, and from a study of enrollment patterns are presented and discussed. Implications are drawn for the local...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Educational Research, English Instruction, Program Evaluation,...
Examples and exercises are provided in a sequential approach designed to familiarize the student with percents, fractions, and ratios. Key words used in the workbook are identified first, followed by exercises focusing on 14 learning objectives: (1) identifying the whole as 100%; (2) expressing a part of 100 as a ratio; (3) changing a fraction in hundredths to a percent and vice versa; (4) renaming a fraction to an equivalent fraction in hundredths; (5) determining the percent of a part of a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Mathematics Education, Percentage, Ratios (Mathematics), Two Year...
This manual describes the process by which a college becomes recognized by the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB), sets forth bases upon which recognition decisions are made, describes the effects of such decisions, and explains how they may be appealed. First, the concept of recognition is defined, indicating that a college is "recognized" when it is judged to be in compliance with ICCB standards, which are based on state statutes and ICCB rules. After the statutory bases for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), Community Colleges, Governing Boards, Institutional...
During the spring semester of 1975, Leeward Community College conducted an investigation of student class schedule changes. A survey instrument was designed, and its completion was made a requirement for students requesting schedule changes. The resulting number of cases analyzed was 2,227, representing a decline of 1,873 from the number of schedule changes in the fall semester. The overwhelming majority of changes, 85.4 percent, involved adding courses. Most course withdrawals, on the other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Courses, Enrollment, Enrollment Influences, Late Registration,...
Drawing from a bibliographic survey of statistical data on two-year colleges, this digest indicates what kinds of data are available, what data are not readily accessible, and the limitations that affect the available information on two-year college finances, curriculum, students, and personnel. The digest recognizes the availability of data on total college expenditures; total enrollment; and the demographic characteristics of students, faculty, and administrators; while alerting users to the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Information Needs, Information Sources, Research Problems,...
This conference sought to analyze the major problems of science in technical education, formulate possible solutions, and stimulate action by higher education, government, the scientific community, foundations, and private industry. This part of the study concerns only physical science and engineering technicians, most of whom attend junior or technical colleges. Staff studies show that the education of technicians has benefited little from the science education reforms enjoyed by scientists...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Paraprofessional Personnel, Science Education, Technical Education, Two Year...
The 276 students who had completed courses in the high school honors program at Los Angeles City College between Spring 1964 and Fall 1967 were sent a questionnaire in an attempt to determine whether they regarded the experience as valuable, and to solicit suggestions for possible modifications of the program. The 58% who responded answered questions about the following topics: (1) reasons for choosing to participate in the program, and for enrolling in the subjects completed; (2) comparison of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College School Cooperation, Honors Curriculum, Questionnaires, Student Evaluation,...
The accomplishments and activities of Project Follow-Through, a system designed to gather data from college students, are reported for the first six months of its development (July 1 through December 31, 1968). The system will gather data from students at three distinct points during their junior college careers: (1) at their initial application for admission; (2) each semester during registration; and (3) during the semester while the student is attending class. The project will also gather...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Data Collection, Followup Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Student Characteristics, Two...
This report provides information on Florida's community college costs by examining changes and patterns in revenues, FTE student counts, and expenditures. A supplement to "Program Evaluation and Justification Review: Florida's Community College System, Report No. 98-06," this document analyzes community college revenue and expenditures from two different perspectives: (1) system-level changes in revenues and spending patterns over time; and (2) revenue and expenditure differences...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Costs, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Income, Resource...
This bibliography includes 161 entries with particular emphasis on the community-junior college. Major sources of literature include bibliographies prepared by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, and the Center for Development of Community College Education. Nineteen other sources were consulted, including "Dissertation Abstracts" (1938-1966), the "Education Index," the "Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature" (1955-1967), and "Research in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Governance, Participation, Two Year Colleges, Riess, Louis C.
The last decade has seen a 250 percent increase in the production of master's degrees. An outstanding force in this increase has been the need for college teachers, whose numbers increased 281,506 in the past 10 years. Those holding master's degrees now constitute the primary manpower pool for college teachers, with 56 to 60 percent of new college teachers coming from that source. These trends will probably continue, though the percentage of college teachers with doctorates has been slowly...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Higher Education, Masters Degrees, Teacher Education, Two Year...
A survey questionnaire designed to determine whether faculty, students, and administrators were aware of the policies governing student rights, freedoms, and involvements at their college was responded to by 143 students and 142 faculty members from El Centro Junior College in Texas and Santa Fe Junior College in Florida. Data showed that there is no definite knowledgeable understanding of the rights, freedoms, and involvements among the respondent junior college students and faculty at the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activism, Governance, Perception, Student College Relationship, Student...
These instructional objectives have been selected from materials submitted to the Curriculum Laboratory of the Graduate School of Education at UCLA. Arranged by major course goals, these objectives are offered simply as samples that may be used where they correspond to the skills, abilities, and attitudes instructors want their students to acquire. These objectives may also serve as models for assisting instructors to translate other instructional units into specific measurable terms. For other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Objectives, College Mathematics, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Two...
These instructional objectives have been selected from materials submitted to the Curriculum Laboratory of the Graduate School of Education at UCLA by John Christenson. Arranged by major course goals, these objectives are offered simply as samples that may be used where they correspond to the skills, abilities, and attitudes instructors want their students to acquire. These objectives may also serve as models for assisting instructors to translate other instructional units into specific...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art, Behavioral Objectives, Design, Two Year Colleges, Starkweather, Ann, Comp.
These instructional objectives have been selected from materials submitted to the Curriculum Laboratory of the Graduate School of Education at UCLA by Alfonso Roda. Arranged by major course goals, these objectives are offered simply as samples that may be used where they correspond to the skills, abilities, and attitudes instructors want their students to acquire. These objectives may also serve as models for assisting instructors to translate other instructional units into specific measurable...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Objectives, Family Life, Family Programs, Marriage, Two Year Colleges,...
The second year (1969-70) of the Program with Developing Institutions (PWDI) emphasized working with faculty members rather than with administrators (as in the first year) in the areas of faculty development and instructional improvement. Fifty-three junior colleges participated in this program, financed under Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and sponsored by AAJC and USOE. The project was composed of: (1) Vincennes National Conference, which reviewed and set the tone for the whole...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Consultants, Developing Institutions, Faculty Evaluation, Instructional...
This review of the literature from higher education concerning compensatory education focuses on those programs and practices that help disadvantaged students enter institutions of higher education as well as those designed to help them succeed once enrolled. Recruitment, admission, and financial aid practices to help disadvantaged students enter institutions of higher education were discussed as well as instructional programs in basic communication skills, tutorial programs, summer programs,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Two...
This report was produced by a committee appointed by the Council for Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture (Israel) to perform the following three major tasks: (1) review all facets of post-secondary education excluding university activities; (2) suggest principles on which to base the development of post-secondary education; and (3) make long- and short-run suggestions for planning and directing various types of post-secondary education. Other major efforts were to initiate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Development, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries, Institutional Role,...
This project attempted to determine whether any characteristics of the dropout differ significantly from those who successfully complete their program of study, and attempted to describe the "typical" Yakuma Valley College full-time student over the past five years. Criteria for "success" were any of the following: (1) transfer to another institution of higher education (regardless of performance there), (2) completion of 85 quarter hours in two years with a GPA of 1.75 or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate, Two Year Colleges, Rice,...
This report presents a model for effective organization of the curriculum. Typical curriculum patterns are examined and deficiences suggested: the hierarchical organization of the disciplines bears little relationship to student needs; departmental structures serve to divide faculty members and inhibit cooperation. It is suggested that a comprehensive developmental program most appropriate to the community college should not follow a definite sequence but should be flexible and draw on content...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Two Year Colleges, Voegel, George...
This report on a 4-month survey was made to assist in the academic planning for the urban (Buffalo) campus of Erie Community College. The Office of Institute Research reviewed current literature and (by interview, questionnaire, and group discussion) sought opinions from educators, businessmen, community leaders, and students. It collected data on (1) the number of students interested in attending the campus, (2) how they differed from those at other colleges, (3) what programs should be...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Planning, Instructional Programs, Program Development, Questionnaires, School...
This meeting was held to exchange views on organization, operation, and goals of industrial relations centers, institutes, and schools. The opening speaker outlined the structure and functions of the international organization and of the regional conferences. The first paper, "Administrative Arrangements in Industrial Relations Centers," was based on a survey of U.S. and Canadian centers. The next paper, "Extension Activities of Industrial Relations Centers," stressed the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Extension Education, Industrial Education, Labor Economics, Labor...
The first section of this guide is on the mechanics of writing a report or a proposal--the elements of style that make for clarity, brevity, and logical development of the subject. The second section contains advice on the specifics of proposal preparation and submission; i.e., choice of a likely source of funds, preparing the rough draft, obtaining local administrative approval, revision and typing of the material, and having it signed by an officer of the requesting agency. Among details the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Services, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Philanthropic...
Current lay board membership was found to come from business owner/manager (35%), professional/technical (27%), and seven other occupational groups. Nearly half were college graduates. Membership qualifications were discussed. A poll of administrators showed that 98% preferred popular election for choosing members. Board responsibilities included planning and policy making, policy enforcement, and evaluation of the policies in relation to the system's goals. Individual members had to know...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Boards of Education, Governing Boards, Two Year Colleges, Hahn, Thomas C.
This analysis of current expenditures of 127 accredited public and private 2-year colleges in 11 southern states is intended to provide data for comparison of expenditures by private and public colleges, to show administrators where spending differs among the colleges, and to provide objective data for them to judge the efficiency of their own schools. It depicts, with tables, current educational outlays: dollar amounts and percentages of educational and general expenditures; administrative and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Expenditures, Two Year Colleges,...
This paper deals with the place of religion in the curriculum of the junior college, with due regard for the constitutional separation of church and state. For the author's purpose, religion is defined as "that group of concepts ... of theology that have shaped our Western culture ... and the non-Christian world." One semester could deal with the Judeo-Christian heritage and a second with Eastern religions, with a view to teaching the student to understand them, to develop critical,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Design, Religion, Two Year Colleges, Tanis, Norman E.
This is an informal appraisal of differences between lecture method and individual instruction. In an experiment, known underachievers were combined at random with regular enrollees. The instruction method (contingency contracting) emphasized increased student motivation by making the student-teacher relationship cooperative instead of authoritarian. Teachers fulfill their part of the contract by giving individual help; students, by performing the assignments. It was noted that (1) no...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Two Year...
As the junior college accepts students whose ability ranges from grade 7 to 12, its reading program must be geared accordingly. The college reading center is for students who want to comprehend more in less time, quickly improve study habits, increase vocabulary, or improve their spelling. The program is valid insofar as it meets these needs. Reading comprehension, the most frequent lack, is only part of the complex reading act. The instructor, after finding each student's reading level, can...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reading Development, Remedial Reading, Two Year Colleges, Taschow, Horst G.
This state director's view of a junior college president was given at the Presidents' Institute (May 1969). In Colorado, the State Board prefers that the president be chosen at the local level by faculty, students, and local board members. His qualifications must fit the climate and values of the state system; e.g., he must de-emphasize the transfer program, encourage new clientele for post high school education, have admission policies that reach the poor and culturally deprived, provide...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Presidents, Role Perception, Two Year Colleges, Elsner, Paul A.
To give them effective personal and vocational counseling, student personnel workers must consider certain facts about junior college students. Although they usually have lower academic ability, they have other attributes worth enhancing. Testing and other selection tools generally apply only to academic aptitude, not to other qualities, and have a negative effect on the expectations of minority students. If they are expected to move upward from a low socioeconomic status, they step into...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counseling Effectiveness, Student Characteristics, Student Personnel Services, Two...
The primary purpose of this study is to provide an up-to-date report on certain social and economic characteristics of credit students enrolled in a newly established comprehensive community college system. A socioeconomic data sheet was constructed by the writer and completed by 11,184 students enrolled in 42 North Carolina community colleges and technical institutes. Comparisons were made between North Carolina students and those in other states, in addition to comparisons among the program...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Questionnaires, Socioeconomic Background, Student Characteristics, Two Year Colleges,...
This review of literature on junior college faculty recruitment covers several aspects. Before active recruitment begins, the governing board should develop accurate job descriptions, criteria of personality and staff balance, systematic appraisal methods, wide involvement in selection, efficient assignment procedures, and promotion criteria. It must also make sure the recruiter knows its policies. To determine the need for new faculty, a ratio can be established among full-time faculty,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Faculty Recruitment, Two Year Colleges, Gaddy, Dale
This review covers five views of junior college students. Dorothy Knoell reminds the college of its growing community service function. It must be ready for several student clienteles with changing needs, interests, activities, and values; for the under-educated of all ages; and for those special populations not served by other schools, all without neglecting its current students. Barbara Thomas discusses problems (and possible solutions) in student assessment. Late-enrolling students,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Characteristics, Two Year Colleges, Knoell, Dorothy M., And Others
Comprehensive plans for 19 states, in use or recommended at time of writing, were studied for this Monograph. It establishes a rationale for state master plans, analyzes relevant literature, tells who is doing the planning, describes the process of developing a plan and getting it adopted, examines the 19 plans for content, suggests ways to implement them, and identifies areas of needed research. The major purposes of a state master plan are to: show concern for the education of both adults and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Master Plans, State Legislation, Two Year Colleges, Hurlburt, Allan S.
See JC 690 392 above. [Not available in hard copy because of marginal reproducibility of original.]
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Objectives, Physiology, Two Year Colleges, Capper, Michael R., Comp.
The author speculates on the results of a change in perceptions of "community," currently seen as the territory of the taxpayer, with his right to set rules through his representative, the board of trustees. The board members, usually conservative businessmen, do not truly represent the community, but they hire the administrators and, through them, all the staff. The staff, however, only seems beholden to the board and soon forms its own constituency. When staff and board disagree, or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Involvement, Governing Boards, Trustees, Two Year Colleges, Collins,...
In certain colleges, mid-semester Deficiency Reports were issued on the assumption that marginal students (those with a D or F after nine weeks of class) should be alerted to the danger of failure. In spring 1969, a study was made to see if those who received the reports made better final grades than those who did not. Of those judged in danger at mid-term, one-half (the control group) were selected at random to receive the reports; the other half (the experimental group) were sent no notice....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grading, Motivation, Student Motivation, Two Year Colleges, Creamer, Don G.
Certain forms of financial aid were studied to determine the academic and personal background of the recipients and if the aid promoted college attendance, academic achievement, and personal development. The subjects were full-time and received scholarships or grants awarded specifically to low-income students; those with other forms of aid were excluded. The recipient group contained 57 men and 51 women; the control group, 45 men and 40 women. The questions were: do recipients earn better...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grants, Scholarships, Student Loan Programs, Two Year Colleges, Snyder, Fred A.,...
Deans of Instruction or Presidents of 94 junior colleges were asked what percentage of their faculty used a non-punitive A, B, C, W (withdraw) grading system, with no failing or F grade. The data shows a growing interest in such grading practices. There are three main arguments in favor of non-punitive grading: (1) an F grade is a double penalty, requiring better-than-average grades to counterbalance it; (2) fear of an F may impair the performance of anxiety-prone students; (3) A-F grading...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Failure, Grading, Two Year Colleges, Smith, Lawrence G.
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