This study identifies and examines the key practices of California community college programs that have demonstrated success in improving (or that have shown significant potential to improve) the achievement of underrepresented groups whose educational attainment often lags behind the attainment of relatively well-off White students. Unlike many…

Discusses three common misperceptions of community college transfer education. Considers the notions that a revitalized transfer function is destructive to vocationalism and perhaps to curricular comprehensiveness; that transfer education is elitist; and that professing ignorance can be a useful way of dealing with those investigating transfer…

The Lisbon summit (March 2000) set the objective for 2010 of making Europe "the most competitive and knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable growth and better jobs and greater social cohesion", while the Barcelona summit (March 2002) set the further objective of making European education and training systems a world…

Describes Madison Area Technical College's endeavor to combine a curriculum focused on employment and application with one that would meet the general education requirements of the North Central Association, the 16 General Institutional Requirements, and the transfer prerequisites of universities. (YKH)

Despite common beliefs that technical college students do not wish to, and cannot, transfer to four-year institutions, many studies have found the opposite to be true. Research shows that 26% of students enrolled in vocational programs intend to transfer to a baccalaureate institution, and occupational course credits from technical colleges are…