A survey was administered to all day, evening, and off-campus students enrolled at Thomas Nelson Community College during the spring quarter of 1977 in order to assess students' attitudes toward their learning environment. The instrument employed was the Assessment of Student Attitudes Scale, which measures attitudes on four subscales: education…

British polytechnics, or technical institutes, are considered from a range of perspectives. Papers include: higher education in the 1970's (C.F. Carter); polytechnic administration (including its relation to government agencies, personnel, academic structure, and financial and plant administration) (C.S. Hall); polytechnic costing: some problems…

A new conceptual model of the community college is necessary to the maturation of the community college into a significant autonomous part of higher education. The requirements for a "transformed" community college are the establishment of a lifelong relationship with its students; a reconciliation of the academic and vocational…

In order to develop a plan to furnish students with field experience within Oxnard College's psychology curriculum, this study reviewed existing programs at other area colleges through a literature review and interviews with field experience directors, examined the Oxnard curriculum and developed a plan for a directed field experience program…

As part of an experiment, a three quarter sequence in organic chemistry was designed to be accompanied by laboratory experiments that reinforce the lecture material and encourage independent investigation by minimizing cookbook-style procedures. By having laboratory techniques explained in detail on video casettes, students were exposed to uniform…

A university level course which uses minicomputers in laboratory data acquisition and experimental control is described. The majority of the students are chemistry seniors and graduate students; prerequisites are general physics and one semester of computer science or programing experience. The goals of the course, which is divided into 3 5-week…

This biennial report of the Illinois Junior College Board contains data on the community college program during 1971 and 1972. The report discusses the following topics: Selected Data of Illinois Public Junior Colleges; Organization of Higher Education in Illinois; Highlights of the Activities of the Illinois Junior College Board in 1971 and 1972;…

This report lists the titles of doctoral dissertations in art education alphabetically by author's name. The 656 titles are also identified by the institution awarding the degree and subject identification numbers. Tables outline the number of completed doctoral dissertations in each university listed in descending numberical order, the number of…

A computer-assisted instruction (CAI) project undertaken in 1965 sought to: 1) teach college instructors to prepare quality CAI curricula; 2) ascertain student attitudes toward CAI; 3) compare CAI with the lecture method; and 4) demonstrate prototypical CAI courses. Teachers were successfully trained in the use of Coursewriter and prepared courses…

The Middle College Plan of LaGuardia Community College is designed to provide an integrated high school-college program directed to the needs of urban high school youth. This program will lead to the New York State high school diploma and to A.A. and A.A.S. degrees. It is hoped that underachieving students, potential dropouts, and achieving youth…

This study examined the image of Afro-American characters and of the Afro-American writer in American literature anthologies widely used in higher education. The study concludes that in these anthologies materials are selected which (1) depict the Afro-American in a limited number of roles and largely as minor characters or as references; (2)…

This document is the second in a series designed to describe agricultural education projects and practices which have been successful in promoting agricultural change and improvement in areas of the world where subsistance agriculture predominates. The projects are included here because of their emphasis on development of human resources and…

This handbook, designed for college classes of prospective elementary and secondary school teachers, considers three particular speech activities: presenting a short talk, reading aloud, and speaking in conference and discussion groups. For each of these three activities, there are theory, assignments, and specifically related evaluation blanks.…

To obtain information concerning current practices in placing community college students in English Composition courses, a two-page questionnaire was mailed to each of California's 93 community colleges; replies were received from 62. Summaries of the replies are provided in seven tables. Observations resulting from the survey data include the…

Techniques employed in a "Joint University-Community Urban Problem-Solving Course" in promoting discussion among two diverse sets of population are described in this handbook. The course, offered during the Fall 1971 and Spring 1972 semesters at Syracuse University, comprised approximately 30 undergraduates from the university and 30…