The first statewide followup study of occupational/career education students in Illinois community colleges was developed through the efforts of the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) Research Advisory Council and the special Occupational Followup Subcommittee. The Phase 1 data for the followup study consisted of reporting student…

Presenting its past, present, and future expectations, the Navajo Junior College anc the forthcoming Navajo Culture Center are described in detail in this publication. College information relative to the following is presented: (1) History and Origin; (2) Philosophy; (3) Objectives; (4) Purpose of the Navajo College (to serve the Navajo…

One manifestation of the concept of individualized instruction has been the rediscovery of television as a useful tool. In order to identify student attitudes toward a televised child psychology course and assess the quality and rigorousness of the course, a questionnaire was developed and administered to students who watched the course at home on…

Attempting to define the optimal use of educational resources for large numbers of students, a research group at the University of Texas at Austin has adopted a system approach to curriculum development consisting of the following components: content, teacher, student, machine, and media. The first procedural step in the system is to define the…

Faced with increased economic pressures and simulatneous demands for high-quality diverse educational options, Kansas Wesleyan, Kansas Technical Institute, and Marymount College have sought to promote innovation, cooperation, and efficiency through a unified program of instructional development. To that end, inservice workshops have been conducted…

Information obtained from the 2-year colleges of New York and New Jersey is presented in this directory. Career curriculums in 140 areas are offered by the 66 institutions. In the institutional directory, information includes cost, financial aid, and career curriculums offered. In the second section, colleges are classified by the occupational…

Twelve papers discussing problems encountered and solutions to them were presented at a symposium which brought together persons concerned with the training of professional mechanical engineers. At Session I, papers covered the need for broadly-based training and engineering practice, training requirements for engineers in the process industries,…

To assess the effectiveness of television courses offered by the Coast Community College District and to determine the characteristics of the television students, data from 1,126 students during three semesters were obtained. Sources by which the data were collected were a post-course evaluation questionnaire, weekly course diaries that rated 10…

This course, designed for extramural college students to cover during 8-10 weeks, provides background experience for practical analysis of economic problems. The student tackles representative problems through background readings supplied by a text and outside articles dealing with specific problems, making written responses to basic and…

Professor LaMar P. Miller, Educational and Research Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs at New York University, has written numerous articles on the subject of Black Studies, and is currently teaching courses on material and strategies related to using the Afro-American experience in the classroom. William A. Katz, General Editor of…

For five years colleges and universities have encountered the black studies movement; they will never be quite the same again. The phrase "black studies" is used to refer to those programs and departments which may have different designations but are highly similar in content to black studies: Afro-American studies, race and ethnic studies,…

This issue contains the following articles: "Trends in the Teaching of Reading" by Virginia French Allen: "A Lesson in Creative Dramatics" by Eloise Hayes and Richard Via; "Some Restrictions on Reduplication of Adjectives in English" by John T. Platt; "CCH BATESL Graduates;" and "Intercultural Communication Training: A Bridge for Human…

This paper sets forth an explicit framework--comparing the "costs" of meeting the language requirement with the "benefits" produced by it--within which university facilities can evaluate their position toward this requirement and other requirements and activities. The study draws upon an extensive survey of the University of Wisconsin faculty…

The initial program of the consortium, which comprised Fisk University, Houston-Tillotson College, LeMoyne College, Dillard University, Tougaloo College, Talladega College, and Clark College, and which extended from July 1967 to July 1970 with a total budget of $85,000, was to be basic institutional research that would help the seven predominately…

This study was conducted to: (1) identify existing practices of occupational guidance programs for Grades K-12 in Michigan, (2) recommend educational changes for the preparation of occupational guidance personnel, and (3) determine specific objectives and ways in which the Department of Industrial Education and Technology of Central Michigan…