Attention has periodically been given to inequality of opportunity in higher education in Michigan by both the governor's office and the state board of education. Activities to date have been based upon the premise that disadvantaged students have often been effectively excluded from participation in higher education, and that certain procedures…

The current and projected shortage of qualified industrial education teachers threatens the continued growth of technical programs in the community junior colleges. As a result, this study of current teacher preparation programs in six states was begun. An analysis of catalogs of all public junior and senior colleges in California, Florida,…

Three hundred and fifty Buffalo public school second graders, most of whom were Negro, were transferred in spring, 1966 from an inner-city school to schools 90 percent or more white. Two hundred and ten second graders, mostly Negro, were transferred from an adjacent inner-city school to five other peripheral schools. A comparison was made of the…

Based on the firm conviction that integrated schools are vital to our efforts to provide quality education for all children, the New York City Board of Education has continued to assume a leadership role in developing and supporting programs aimed at reducing minority group isolation. A variety of techniques has been employed: selection of sites…

This report is a continuing analysis of the achievement of ethnic minority children who are bused for integration, and of other children attending the schools receiving bused pupils. The findings reported here are limited to children in the primary grades. The achievement of kindergarten and first grade bused and "receiving" pupils has…

The Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) integrated Air Force technical education with civilian related education, resulting in 77 Career Education Certificate programs. CCAF plots the career education of Air Force enlisted personnel, using service instruction as a core and guidelines established by the U.S. Office of Education and other…

Argues that transfer options for occupational-technical students have not kept pace with the high transfer rates of this group. Reports on the characteristics of the career-track transfer population, articulation formats for career-track transfer, and policy barriers to articulation. Reviews recent calls for and steps taken toward transfer…

Accurate measures of transfer are important to the assessment of community college outcomes. This article uses a relatively new database from the National Student Clearinghouse to assess transfer rates at the State University of New York community colleges. Past studies only tracked students within the public sector of a given state. Once…

This is a report on the credit student enrollment at Iowa community colleges for the fall 2001 term. Highlights include: (1) the total headcount shows a credit enrollment of 68,790 students, a 5% increase over fall 2000; (2) 58% of the credit students at Iowa community colleges were enrolled in four-year college parallel programs, a 13% increase…

This document is a report on the performance, graduation, and transfer of immigrant and native minority students at City University of New York (CUNY) community colleges. The study also compares the experiences of immigrants at CUNY community colleges to those of native United States minorities. A total of 8,332 students responded to the survey,…

This report provides background and summary information on undergraduate students who transfer from public community colleges to baccalaureate degree-granting institutions in California. The report describes the basic requirements that students must meet to transfer from community colleges to California State University (CSU) and University of…

This is a report on the Stanford Bridge Project being conducted through the Maryland Community College Extension to examine policies impacting the high school to community college transition for students. The project analyzes admissions, placement and remediation, transfer, and other policies at two Maryland community colleges. The report shows…

This document is a study on the attendance patterns of community college transfer students prior to their matriculation at The University of Memphis (Tennessee). The study focuses on three topics: (1) the percentage of community college students who transfer with associate degrees; (2) the students' patterns of institutional attendance, both…

Every semester about 3,800 Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) (California) students indicate a desire to transfer to the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). However, for the academic years 1998-2000, less than 450 SBCC students successfully transferred to UCSB. This study examines three consecutive SBCC cohorts' traits and performance…

This publication reports on the rates of transfer of Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) students and tracks what kinds of transfer institutions these students choose. The study analyzes transfer rates by school type: two-year in-state, two-year out-of-state, four-year in-state, and four-year out-of-state. It also analyzes the data…