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Olson, Gerald T. – 1984
The Career Guidance I.Q. (Indicator of Quality) Test was developed as an aid in assessing career guidance programs' processes and outcomes as they relate to educational excellence. Eight distinct goals (three programmatic, five student outcome), developed from a survey of current career guidance literature, form the basis of the 35-item…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Guidance, Coping, Criterion Referenced Tests
Durham, Joseph T. – 1985
Information on off-campus credit courses and degree programs is presented in statistical tables and narrative summaries that cover: enrollments by campus and type of site, enrollments by major field of study, and types of faculty teaching off-campus courses or programs. Off-campus instruction was offered by six Maryland community colleges, seven…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Community Colleges, Credit Courses, Enrollment Trends
Kane, Parsons and Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1983
In 1981-82, a study was conducted to determine why students left LaGuardia Community College (LCC) before completing the requirements for an associate degree. Interviews were conducted with dropout students over the course of the study, and questionnaires were administered to entering and continuing students to provide a comparative framework. The…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education
Download full textDavis, Ronald M. – 1984
As mathematics instruction in two-year colleges enters the late 1980's and 1990's, two major concerns will come to the forefront. The first is retraining faculty to ensure the provision of instruction relevant to the needs of two-year college students. Retaining this relevancy involves two aspects: faculty must acquire new knowledge in order to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Hollins, Carol S.; Smith, Myra Goodman – 1986
This factbook summarizes information about the students, staff and faculty, programs and services, and financial and physical resources of John Tyler Community College (JTCC). Section I focuses on JTCC's students, presenting information on student enrollment by sex, race, full-/part-time status, programs, residence; grade distributions; veteran…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, College Faculty, College Graduates
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). – 1986
This document gives a summary of the main results of a conference held in May, 1986 and entitled "Adult Education and Community Development--Challenge and Response." The Conference marked the end of the Council of Europe's Project No. 9, which considered adult education as a factor of cultural, social, and economic innovation in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Cooperative Planning, Cultural Exchange
Charles, Richard F.; Shoenhair, Margaret T. – 1986
An overview is provided of the efforts of Foothill College (Los Altos Hills, California) to implement more sophisticated, comprehensive, and directive student services, and of how these services will be expanded in the future. Following introductory comments on California's efforts to develop a statewide student matriculation plan, chapter 1…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admissions Counseling, Ancillary School Services, Athletes
Six Year Follow-Up Study of 1976-1978 Alumni and Stopouts. Research Report Series Volume XIV, No. 2.
Lucas, John A. – 1985
In summer 1984, a follow-up study was conducted in Illinois at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) of the stopouts and transfer and career program alumni who left WRHC between 1976 and 1978. The study sought to assess the long-term impact of WRHC on its students. A mailed survey and follow-up telephone calls to 1,294 former students yielded a 50%…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Dropout Research
Osborne, Linda B., Ed. – 1982
The Family Day Care Check-In Program is designed to offer working parents convenient, affordable after school care for their children aged 10 to 14. It provides children with flexible supervision by caring, trained adults and gives them opportunities to grow into responsible, independent teens by planning and participating in activities on their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Programs, Child Caregivers, Community Programs
Texas Governor's Special Subcommittee on Child Abuse Prevention, Austin. – 1985
This handbook concerns the victimization of children, community awareness of child abuse, what Texas law demands of educators, in-service training on child abuse and neglect, and implementing anti-victimization programs for children. The victimization of children is discussed in terms of four basic types of victimization, facts and myths about…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Children
Martin, Deanna C.; And Others – 1986
This report evaluates the Urban University/Urban School Collaborative Program sponsored by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). The program provided grants for 16 projects to improve opportunities for youth in urban areas, giving them access to higher education and jobs. The grants were to be used to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, College School Cooperation, Employment Programs, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Fernandez, Georgina – 1985
In spring 1984, six English instructors at Clinton Community College (CCC), in New York State, were asked to incorporate an instructional unit on library skills into their freshman English classes. To assess the overall effectiveness of the unit, a study was conducted comparing the course grades and test scores of the students who received library…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Community Colleges, Course Evaluation, English Instruction
Lee, Beth S. – 1987
Between 1984 and 1988, four follow-up surveys were conducted by the Los Rios Community College (LRCC) District to determine the education and employment patterns of a total of 16,284 former LRCC students, their satisfaction with their experience at LRCC, and their educational plans. The responses of 7,564 former students were analyzed in terms of…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Dropouts
Rincones, Rodolfo – 1988
School reorganization has been used extensively as a strategy to deal with the problems of small and rural schools. However, there is no comprehensive evidence to prove that consolidation has met the problems of finance, staff, facilities, and curriculum for which it has been advocated, nor are consolidation's disadvantages and ill-effects of the…
Descriptors: Centralization, Community Benefits, Consolidated Schools, Educational Technology
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Office of Institutional Research and Analytical Studies. – 1988
Information about off-campus instructional locations of the State University of New York is presented, based on results of the Instructional Locations Away from the Main Campus Survey, Fall 1987. For each of 412 instructional locations away from the main campus, information is provided on: number of courses by level, registrations, academic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Credit Courses, Degrees (Academic), Educational Certificates
