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California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2013
This "Program and Course Approval Handbook" assists California Community College (CCC) administrators, faculty, and staff in the development of programs and courses and the submission of these proposals for review by the Chancellor's Office. By law, the Chancellor is required to prepare and distribute a handbook for program and course…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Programs, Courses, College Curriculum
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Beaky, Lenore A. – Academe, 2010
City University of New York's (CUNY) new community college, planned almost entirely by administrators and slated to open in 2012, seems designed to shunt its student body into narrow, mostly terminal career-technical programs with the promise of an associate's degree at the end. But to what purpose? To "reimagine community college education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Ireland, Richard C. – Training in Business and Industry, 1973
A community college dean claims that the two-year school of higher education is a much overlooked, but potentially valuable, resource for the company director. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Educational Opportunities, Higher Education
Love, Don – 1970
This report is meant to be a tool for the recognition and resolution of a major concern at Los Angeles City College--vocational education programs for the disadvantaged. It is intended to help the college develop programs in which the disadvantaged can successfully function and from which he can enter the world of work as a competent and skilled…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged, Guidelines
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1990
This fifth edition of the Maryland Community Colleges Instructional Program Manual was designed to be used in the development, submission, review, and approval of all new instructional programs in the Maryland community colleges. The first section provides a timetable for program proposals and program evaluations. The next sections contain…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Program Development, Program Evaluation
Lehner, Margaret – 1984
A proposal is presented for an Honors Scholar Program at Moraine Valley Community College in response to the need to provide gifted students with the extra challenges they seek. After providing a rationale for the program, the membership of the steering committee and curriculum committees that would develop and guide the program is designated.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Casto, Robert A. – 1996
Intended as a resource for program developers, this handbook illustrates the process of developing program proposals for the associate of applied science and business (AASB) degrees at Lima Technical College (LTC), in Ohio. Following an introduction, section 1 discusses the potential reasons for the addition of a program to the LTC curriculum.…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Board of Education Policy, Business Education, Community Colleges
Miami-Dade Junior Coll., FL. Div. of Allied Health Studies. – 1971
During Phase I of an Allied Health Professions Basic Improvement Grant, a five-member committee developed a curriculum for a medical laboratory technology program at Miami-Dade Junior College by: (1) defining competencies which differentiate a certified laboratory assistant from a medical laboratory technician, (2) translating expected laboratory…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges
Teahen, Roberta C. – 1996
Presenting summarized transcripts of sessions at the Michigan Department of Education's second Curriculum Integration Workshop held in Traverse City, Michigan from July 15-18, 1996, this proceedings describes the state's project to integrate academic curricula into vocational programs at the community college level. Following an overview of the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Role, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Genesee Community Coll., Batavia, NY. – 1990
A description is provided of the process proposed for the comprehensive institutional assessment of Genesee Community College (GCC) and the methods used to develop the assessment proposal. The proposal calls for the assessment to envelop the entire campus, tracking students from the preregistration phase, as they pass through their courses to the…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Planning, Community Colleges, Core Curriculum
Packer, Arnold – 1992
In order for more individuals to enter higher paying jobs, employers must create a sufficient number of high-performance positions (the demand side), and workers must acquire the skills needed to perform in these restructured workplaces (the supply side). Creating an associate degree in High Performance Manufacturing (HPM) will help address four…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges
Nelms, Howard F. – 1978
A two-phase curriculum project was undertaken in Illinois to develop, test, and implement a two-year competency-based model for the education of secondary school building construction teachers in the area of residential structures. During the first contract period, skill and knowledge competencies were identified and validated for thirteen units…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Building Trades, Community Colleges, Competency Based Teacher Education