This document contains volume two of Learning Abstracts, a bimonthly newsletter from the League for Innovation in the Community College. Articles in these seven issues include: (1) "Get on the Fast Track to Learning: An Accelerated Associate Degree Option" (Gerardo E. de los Santos and Deborah J. Cruise); (2) "The Learning College:…

This document contains four articles that provide research-based strategies to promote diversity in the higher education community. Diversity programming at many community colleges tends to be event-centered, whether those events are annual, such as Native American Awareness Month, or incidental, like responses to high-profile hate crimes.…

The articles in this issue of Learning Quarterly, published by the Centre for Curriculum, Transfer, and Technology (British Columbia), discuss the relationship between assessment and learning. Assessment can be used for three purposes in education: (1) to evaluate and credential (grade); (2) to determine institutional effectiveness; and (3) to…

The four articles in this issue of Removing Vestiges reflect on institutional, curricular, and classroom approaches to freshman orientation. This issue provides examples of ways institutions meet the needs of their students. The first and last articles involve institutional orientation. Vrondelia Chandler, in "Preparing Community College…

Due to the instability of state funding, California's community colleges have turned to the foundation as a source of alternative fundraising and resource development. To gather data on the foundations in place at California community colleges, a survey was conducted of 50 foundation directors, focusing on how their foundations raised money, what…

Focusing on the role of community colleges in implementing the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, the 12 essays in this volume describe strategies and practices developed by colleges to address the provisions of the Act and help develop a global workforce. The following articles are provided: "Assessing the Community College Role in…

This document contains eight papers in which the principals of eight U.S. and British postsecondary institutions describe the franchising negotiations and arrangements into which their schools have entered. Franchising arrangements at a wide variety of postsecondary institutions are discussed, including community colleges, polytechnics, further…

This paper, from the Faculty Association of Community and Technical Colleges (FACTC) in Washington, addresses the issue of part-time faculty employment in the state's community colleges. In fall 1997, there were 3,019 full-time and 5,256 part-time instructors in Washington's two year colleges. Departments that rely most heavily on part-time…

Focusing on issues and practices related to professional development at two- and four-year colleges, selected articles in the four issues of this volume include the following: "Empowering Faculty: An Alternative Method for Allocating Funds" (B. Dangerfield, D. Stover, and C. Byers); "Research Portfolios: Connecting Projects to Products" (L.…

This document contains three issues of "Update on Research and Leadership," a newsletter from the University of Illinois. The first issue examines the integration of Internet technologies with course delivery. The two lead articles describe current efforts to bring new technology to the community college classroom. The second issue…

In the past, post-secondary education has been an option for welfare recipients wishing to increase their earning power. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) shifted federal policy and made it more difficult for welfare recipients to pursue a college education. Nevertheless, several work activities…

This document consists of the four issues of the newsletter "Workforce Skills" published during 1994. This newsletter contains a variety of articles about Colorado's Community College and Occupational Education System (CCOES) and about work force skills training developed and delivered by community colleges. Each newsletter includes some…

A basic position of industry is that it picks up where schools leave off. Training policy within industry is diverse in theory and practice. Companies vary in their approach to training, ranging from highly informal to highly formal. The many new trends in industrial training may be analyzed in four dimensions: in-house education programs,…

This volume contains the texts of the papers and discussions presented at a conference on community-based development. The following materials are included: "Opening Remarks" (John Zippert); "Guest Speaker Remarks" (Colman McCarthy); "Community-Based Development" (Blandina Cardenas Ramirez); "Community-Based Colleges" (panel discussions moderated…

This document contains four reports on technology and further education (FE) that Lynton Gray and Ann-Marie Warrender prepared for the Further Education Funding Council's Learning and Technology Committee. The first report, "Main Themes from Learning & Technology Committee Press Surveys," examines three themes that were identified…