This annual report provides the details of how some of New Mexico Higher Education Department's (NMHED) accomplishments will improve the lives of New Mexico's students. In addition to information about NMHED led programs, this report includes profiles of each of New Mexico's public higher education institutions (HEIs) to the report. Each profile…

Equity in Excellence is a two-year project launched in 2013 to support the implementation of Colorado's higher education reform agenda. With a focus on the metropolitan Denver area, the project intends to align the state's higher education policies with concrete, equity-focused actions at its public community colleges and four-year institutions.…

For more than two decades, the vision of a statewide system of student mobility has driven Ohio's articulation and transfer initiatives, which guarantee that specific courses will be applied to degrees and certificates at public two- and four-year postsecondary institutions. This chapter outlines how Ohio developed a comprehensive, guaranteed…

Dual credit is the term given to courses in which high school students have the opportunity to earn both high school and college credits. Dual credit courses are taught by regular high school faculty or by regular or adjunct college faculty either at the high school, at the college or university, or sometimes through online courses or distance…

The Rostrum is a quarterly publication of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) The Master Plan for Higher Education and the Missions of the California Community Colleges (Jane Patton); (2) Academic Dishonesty and the Faculty's Right to Assign a Grade: A Test of the Academic…

The Rostrum is a quarterly publication of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) The Need for full Time faculty (again) by Jane Patton; (2) Reading May Be the Key to Unlocking Basic Skills Success by Janet Fulks; (3) Diversity Institute on the Right Track by Beth Smith; (4)…

Describes the Hostos Community College (HCC) articulation model, which involved faculty, student services, and administrators developing course equivalency listings; faculty development activities; acquiring and computerizing student information; creating faculty and alumni advisement programs; establishing discipline-based transfer tracts…

This report discusses the increasing prevalence of transfer students and explores problems relating to educational access for minorities, artificial barriers to transfer (curricular, financial, and procedural), and college adjustment. Recommendations are made to both two-year and four-year institutions in the areas of: (1) curriculum, suggesting…

The Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum (IMPAC) is a faculty-designed, faculty-run project designed to assist the student transfer process from the California Community Colleges (CCC) to the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) systems. In June, 2000, the Chancellor of the California Community…

In 1989, a 1-week summer workshop involving faculty from the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP), and LaSalle and Temple Universities (Philadelphia) was held to discuss student transfer bewteen institutions with special emphasis on the rate of successful enrollment and transfer of minority students. CCP coordinated this first workshop,…

This document represents BCCAT's position on instructor qualifications within the BC Transfer System. These concern: (1) BC Transfer System Instructor Qualification Standards; and (2) Establishing and Monitoring Expectations.

The Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professional development movement, community college students' emerging intentionality, and the role of two- and four-year higher education faculty intersect in a proactive model proposed by the author that advocates ECEC community college programs separate from the vocational tradition and establishes…

In November 1980, a task force was formed at Fraser Valley College (FVC) to determine the future direction of the university transfer program and to make recommendations regarding the program and its implementation. This report presents information on the background, activities, and recommendations of the task force. Section I presents the…

This report summarizes the list of expenditures submitted by 106 California community colleges for the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 fiscal years. It is intended to show how colleges have been using their allocated Partnership for Excellence (PFE) money, and how they intend to use additional funds in 1999-2000. Information is presented by college for six…

This collection of essays offers a variety of perspectives on academic and procedural aspects of transfer and articulation activities. The volume includes articles on state, regional, and foundation-sponsored efforts to improve transfer processes, as well as essays concerned with programs to create vehicles and channels for interinstitutional…