Cuyahoga Community College's (CCC's) Center for Articulation and Transfer Opportunities offers programs and services designed to increase opportunities and to improve the success of urban transfer students as they move from one level of education to another. The Center sponsors an intensive series of services and events designed to increase the…

Trend data on college-going rates in California are examined, with attention to statewide high school graduation and college-going trends, and participation rates for the University of California, California State University, California community colleges, and independent colleges and universities. The trend data cover 1974-1985 for the state…

Fall 1986, "end-of-registration" enrollment data were gathered for the 50 Illinois public community colleges and compared with data from earlier years. Highlights of the analysis indicate that: (1) the colleges enrolled 334,884 students in instructional credit courses, representing a decrease of 4,898 students (1.4%) from fall 1985; (2)…

Fall 1985, "end-of-registration" enrollment data were gathered for the 50 Illinois public community colleges and compared with data from earlier years. Highlights of the analysis indicate that: (1) the colleges enrolled 339,782 students in instructional credit courses in fall 1985, representing a 5.9% decrease from fall 1984; (2) the…

California's Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS), which provides services and financial aid to community college students who transfer to public four-year colleges, was evaluated by an intersegmental task force, which offered 12 recommendations to improve EOPS and the transfer process. After outlining EOPS goals, services, and…

Critical aspects of crisis management in U.S. higher education and the historical development of the education system over the last 100 years are reviewed. It is proposed that crisis strategies in higher education have largely revolved around the use of a stratification strategy and the establishment of ideological hegemony. Historical periods…

The underrepresentation of Mexican Americans in Texas higher education is a major challenge facing the state's leaders. In Texas the growing Mexican American population will constitute the majority of the labor force in 20 to 30 years. The only way to insure a healthy and productive economy for Texas in the future is to invest now in the education…

Vocational and technical education planners need to be aware of and utilize four commonly used types of articulation: interinstitutional articulation (that which takes place between institutions), intra-institutional articulation (coordination that occurs within an institution), horizontal articulation (cooperative planning involving one level of…

A project was conducted to improve articulation between secondary and postsecondary vocational programs in southwest Washington. Included among the major project activities were the following: completion of interviews with vocational staff in six cooperating districts and two community colleges; preparation of a report on the current status of…

Based on a 1984 survey of all accredited two-year colleges in the United States and members of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC) in other countries, this directory provides a comprehensive list of the 1,222 community, junior, and technical colleges as well as statistics on enrollment and staffing for each. Following…

Fall 1985 statistics on the geographic origins, or permanent residence, of students attending institutions of the State University of New York (SUNY) are presented. This second of three volumes presents data on credit course students by origin or origin grouping. Contents include: separate tables for each New York State county; the permanent…

An anthology of supplementary text material on financing of American higher education is presented for use in graduate courses in the field of higher education administration. The chapters concern college financial management, higher education economics, and federal and state policies. Chapter titles and authors/editors are as follows: "In Praise…

Using existing records, documents, and data files, a study was conducted to identify and describe the status of vocational education in California's community colleges in seven areas of investigation: vocational students, vocational programs, program delivery patterns, program planning, program funding, student outcomes, and major trends and…

This report provides information on the second year (1985-86) of the third cycle of Rockland Community College's (RCC's) Special Services Project, a program providing supplemental instructional, counseling, and tutorial services for educationally and economically disadvantaged students through college skills courses, remedial/developmental…

A study was conducted by the Learning Assessment Retention Consortium (LARC) to describe the outcomes (i.e., goal satisfaction, retention, and skills acquisition) of students enrolled in remedial English writing courses in a sample of California community colleges, and to develop an evaluation model which could be used in community colleges to…