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Lum, Glen; Signor, Pauline – 1994
In addition to traditional study skills, the Master Student (MS) course at Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC), in Pennsylvania, includes subjects related to career decision making, human development, and psychology. A study was conducted to track the academic achievement, including grades, number of semesters enrolled, and total credits…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Goal Orientation
Bridgeport Futures Initiative, CT. – 1993
This report outlines the Bridgeport Futures Initiative, a collaborative project undertaken in 1990 by health, education, and social service organizations in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to improve the lives and educational outcomes of children and youth. The report discusses the origins of the initiative, as well as the cross-systems co-location case…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Child Health
Hoyt, Donald L. – 1990
To develop an effective method for experienced, full-time faculty to mentor new, part-time faculty, Cuyahoga Community College (CCC), in Ohio, initiated the 3-year Educator's Peer Instructional Consulting (EPIC) project in September 1987. EPIC was designed to allow new faculty to quickly learn essential information about the college, their…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Collegiality, Community Colleges
Dunn, David, Ed. – 1992
This manual was written for both health care professionals and community leaders wishing to work together to enhance the availability of culturally appropriate health care services for refugees. The material is also relevant to people who wish to develop the sensitivity and skill needed to serve any culturally diverse clientele. The booklet…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Delivery Systems
Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Community Coll. System. – 1989
The Commission to Study the Future of Community Colleges in Kentucky was established in 1988 to review the accomplishments of the Kentucky Community College System (KCCS), to assess its current status, and to provide direction for the KCCS towards the year 2000. Developed as part of a collection of reports on the KCCS for use by the Commission in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Ancillary School Services, College Graduates
Ignash, Jan M. – 1993
The "revolving door syndrome" refers to the ease with which students are able to enroll in community colleges and the equal ease with which they can drop out. In addition to traditional retention strategies, such as assessment, placement, orientation and advising, innovative approaches have been implemented at five community colleges…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropouts
Stoneman, Marcia L.; Robinson, Terry L. – 1993
Blue Ridge Community College (BRCC), in Flat Rock, North Carolina, has developed a student recruitment package that uses Asymetrix's ToolBook software package to introduce prospective students to the various curricula offered by the college. The ToolBook presentation uses a hypernavigation approach which allows users to directly access the…
Descriptors: College Admission, Community Colleges, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Brookes, Toby, Comp. – 1993
This bibliography lists training programs and training materials, both print and audiovisual, related to aging irrespective of the source of language used. Materials emanate from Australia, Canada, Chile, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, the former Soviet Union, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States as well as from several international…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Annotated Bibliographies
Collin County Community Coll., McKinney, TX. – 1991
Designed for participants at a workshop on at-risk student recruitment and retention, this booklet provides information on SEE (Students with Education and Experience), a cooperative education-based retention program operating in the Collin County Community College District (Texas). After presenting a flow chart of the SEE Model and data on high…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Community Colleges
Cepeda, Rita; Norman, Carolyn F. – 1992
The status of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Library and Learning Resources Program (LLRP) is described in this report, which reviews a systemwide survey of the LLRP completed in the 1988-89 academic year; and provides a national and statewide context for ongoing discussions of the relationship between the LLRP and the CCC Board of…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Learning Resources Centers, Library Development
McGillicuddy (Shirley) & Associates, Sierra Madre, CA. – 1992
Mt. San Antonio Community College District's Consumer/Home Economics In-Service/Curriculum Development Project was designed to provide activities to meet staff development and program improvement needs. The choice of activities was based on evaluation data from previous home economics projects, and priorities identified by the Consumer/Home…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Consumer Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Parmerlee-Greiner, Gloria – 1992
To meet the needs of pregnant and parenting adolescents in Boulder Valley (Colorado), the local public school district has developed the Boulder Valley Schools Teen Parenting Program, now in its 12th year. The program was designed to help teen parents to mature to meet the challenges of parenting, enhance the school district's dropout/intervention…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ancillary School Services, Child Rearing, Community Support
Stolar, Steven M.; Cowles, James – 1992
During the 1991-92 academic year, Cumberland County College (CCC), in New Jersey, initiated a mentor program to encourage enrollment of male minority high school seniors in postsecondary institutions. Twenty Black and Hispanic males in their senior year of high school participated in the program; all 20 were accepted to an accredited college…
Descriptors: Black Students, Career Counseling, College Preparation, Community Colleges
Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Community Coll. System. – 1994
Designed to provide visiting committees of the Commission on Colleges with an orientation to the University of Kentucky Community College System (UKCCS), this nine-part report provides a detailed description of the UKCCS, including a review of its governance structure, planning and evaluation processes, and relationships among the 14 colleges in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Advisory Committees, College Administration
George Brown Coll., Toronto (Ontario). – 1993
In June 1992, a General Education Task Force was established at George Brown College (GBC) in Ontario, Canada, to develop a philosophy statement on general education (GE), curriculum guidelines, a GE course approval and review process, and an implementation plan regarding GE at the college. This interim report describes the context of and actions…
Descriptors: College Planning, Committees, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
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