Three research projects supervised by the Research Committee of the Texas Association of Junior College Instructional Administrators are reported. The first, "Selected Aspects of Internal Decision-Making in Public -Supported Community Colleges in Texas as Perceived by Administrators. Faculty Members, and Student Leaders, involved the use of questionnaires in determining differences between the perceptions of the three groups. The second, "A Study of the Management Systems of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Two Year Colleges
For this survey, 602 public 2-year colleges and 251 non-public colleges were asked to participate; the response was 496 and 153 respectively. Of these, 321 public and 38 private schedules were used in this report. It details the most widespreac characteristics of the public colleges; minimum, maximum, and increment structures; allowance for previous experience; requirements for academic or professional upgrading; qualifications for promotion to faculty rank; and salary stratification within...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Faculty, Salaries, Two Year Colleges
This report contains the evaluation data gathered by a junior college faculty in preparation for state accreditation. The report includes a statement of philosophy, and evaluates the following areas of the college: organization and administration, student personnel services, curriculum, instruction, and college atmosphere. (JC)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), Two Year Colleges
This is a report on the efforts of a junior college to provide high school students with information about the new technologies and to stimulate interest in college attendance. Results of the "Pre-College Seminar," which operated as if it were a professional conference, indicate that a general education course in technology can provide information not otherwise available to high school students, and that it can encourage them to enroll in college. Information for structuring similar...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Technical Education, Two Year Colleges
Articles contributed by the teachers and administrators at Chicago City College are presented in this report. Topics include: Students, Faculty, A View of General Education, Occupational Education, Collective Comprehensiveness, Innovation Plan for Crane Campus, Fiscal Resources, Governance, Administration and Organization, A Note on Community Services, A View on Decentralization, Learning Resource Centers, Physical Education, and Student Personnel Services at CCC. (MB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Master Plans, Two Year Colleges
A 9-item questionnaire was given to registering students for fall and spring 1969. For easier handling, its form was changed for the next semester. By accident, the two versions were handed out and 687 students answered both in quick succession. The staff decided to compare the two forms to see if the answers differed. Two questions were considered unsuitable for comparison. For the other seven, the frequency of differing replies ranged from 16 to 66%. Three possible explanations were offered:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Questionnaires, Reliability, Two Year Colleges
This series of tables analyzes the enrollment of males, females, and totals of both day and evening classes of two colleges for two semesters. These eleven student characteristics are measured: (1) total students enrolled, (2) age: 21 and under, over 21 years; (3) high school: graduate, non-graduate; (4) goal: transfer, terminal; (5) other college experience: yes, no; (6) unit load: up to 11.5, 12 and over, non-credit; (7) student declared major: agriculture, business, language and literature,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Enrollment, Student Characteristics, Two Year Colleges
This is an updated version of "Selected References for New Junior College Presidents and Board Members," an unpublished document prepared in 1967 by the Subcommittee on Operational Data for Junior College Administrators of the American Association of Junior Colleges (AAJC). The introduction contains instructions for ordering ERIC documents, information on how to use the ERIC system, a list of the ERIC clearinghouses, and instructions for ordering AAJC publications. The bibliography is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Two Year Colleges, Giles, Louise, Ed.
Preparation of teachers for the junior college, which is the fastest growing segment of American higher education, was the topic of the second Missouri Valley Conference. Roger H. Garrison reported that the evolving status of the junior college locates the junior college teacher's position between the high school teacher and the college professor, but the pragmatism of junior college instructional aims--producing transferable students as well as technical and lower level management...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Teacher Education, Two Year Colleges
This report summarizes the results of an instructor-rating scale, which was distributed to students at a California junior college. Reported are individual instructor's average scores on seventeen items, the individual instructor's average score on all of the items rated, the overall instructor's average score on each item, and the overall instructor's average score on all of the items. A copy of the scale is included. (JC)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Rating Scales, Teacher Evaluation, Two Year Colleges
Tollowing a brief description of the purposes of tenure, the policy adopted by the College of the Mainland (Texas) in July 1967 was presented. The policy outlines: who is eligible to receive tenure, the rights of those who have received tenure, and the criteria and procedure used by the president for recommending tenure. (MB)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Contracts, Teacher Employment, Tenure, Two Year Colleges
This institutional self-study, prepared as an application for accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, may serve as a model for others making similar application. Introductory material includes a model of the new campus; names of trustees, administrators, state regents, and committee members; and a preface commenting on the college in transition from an 80-year-old private school to a public 2-year comprehensive community college. Subsequent sections...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), Institutional Research, Two Year Colleges
This study compares two groups--Bronx Community College graduates who went, as juniors, to City College of New York and to Hunter (Bronx) in September 1965 and 60 native juniors at the same two upper-division colleges. At CCNY there was a slight difference in graduation rate between transfers and natives; at Hunter (Bronx), there was none. Of the transfers, 72% lost no credits; 21% lost up to four credits; only three students lost 10 or more credits. The comparison of academic performance takes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Followup Studies, Transfer Students, Two Year Colleges
When the Program with Developing Institutions was funded for a second year, it was decided to hold a national conference at Vincennes University, plus subsequent regional meetings, on the new faculty development program. It was to stress change in relation to faculty development and improved instruction, with a chance for small-group discussions. Main addresses were on reasons for change, process of affecting change, innovative colleges, challenge of educational technology, change in a small...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Developing Institutions, Faculty, Two Year Colleges
From the conference proceedings, certain main topics were chosen for this report. They include: Paul Miller's talk on the changing structure of higher education; a session with three U.S. Office of Education personnel on the submission of sound proposals for obtaining federal funds; William G. Shannon's speech on just what a developing college is; John P. Mallan's comments on federal programs for junior colleges; Robert P. Malcolm's address on the AAJC Facilities Information Service; remarks...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Developing Institutions, Two Year Colleges, Workshops
The research done on junior colleges by graduate students at Northern Illinois University during 1968-69 is summarized. The seventeen papers reproduced here are those made available in written form by speakers at various conferences on the junior college. The subjects covered include: a commentary on the community college board member, a communications/behavioral approach to the basic speech course, speech courses and programs, the associate nursing program, adult education in the junior...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Educational Research, Speeches, Two Year Colleges
This document presents a set of ten newsletters, entitled "Connections," published by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District from September 1997 through December 1998. The following articles appear in the newsletters: "Futurist Wolfe,""Local Success Fong," and "Fourth Annual Day at the 'Stick Is a Big Hit"; "Heat on HVAC,""Advocate Mason," and "Community Building"; "Jay Jackman,""A1 Bond Rating,"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Newsletters, School Districts, Two Year Colleges
This speech for the Council of Community College Boards of the National School Boards Association emphasizes the role men play in determining the results of professional negotiations. Positing that one gets the kind of negotiations he chooses, the author presents two models for negotiation and details the attitudes and behaviors appropriate to each. One model, Distributive Bargaining, is characterized by the struggle for power and often produces results unsatisfactory to both sides. The other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Collective Bargaining, Two Year Colleges, Keck, Donald J.
Since the author felt that junior college athletic awards should not necessarily follow senior college practices, he conducted a survey. He sought the opinion of 110 athletes, coaches, and athletic directors. Of the 80 replies, he tabulated 25 from each category of respondent. On nine statements, they agreed, disagreed, or held no opinion. After examining the replies, the author recommended that (1) 2-year colleges should give awards to athletes only on intercollegiate teams; (2) the first...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, Physical Education, Two Year Colleges, Farkouh, Nicholas
A questionnaire-opinionnaire survey of 68 junior colleges in 30 states, explored questions such as the amount and type of protest on junior college campuses, the extent of faculty and nonstudent involvement, the degree of institutional planning for protest situations, opinions concerning the relative lack of protest on junior college campuses, and opinions concerning successful approaches to student unrest. It revealed conclusions such as: (1) student unrest activities are primarily...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activism, Questionnaires, Two Year Colleges, Jones, Milton O.
This study reports an attempt to determine the nature and extent of relationships between total grade point average and grades in selected courses with ACT scores and the students' status as high school graduates. In general, it was found that the predictors for individual courses were more accurate than predictors for grade point averages. A correlation of about .60 appears to be the highest that can be expected when grades and grade point averages are the criteria. Conclusions include the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Grade Prediction, Two Year Colleges, Hendrix, Vernon L.
This pamphlet provides information for those who may be interested in working in the junior college field and those in the colleges who are looking for staff for their campuses. Opportunities are plentiful in either the large public colleges, with their diverse student bodies and curricula, or in the smaller independent institutions. Those interested in administration will have a chance to work on new programs, new facilities, and growing community services, and to develop their own imaginative...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Selection, Faculty Recruitment, Salaries, Two Year Colleges
This is the second in a series of annual presentations on the innovative, experimental, and research activities conducted at Santa Fe Junior College. The studies include: classroom activities, college-wide research, short statements on different instructional approaches to formal dissertation abstracts, subjective observations, intricate experimental designs, and an up-dating of reports presented in last year's publication (ED 034 513). Contributors include faculty, administrative staff...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experiments, Institutional Research, Research Projects, Two Year Colleges
This Review describes ways to examine various aspects of community college libraries. Little research has been done on the reasons for success or failure of certain procedures or of certain administrative or organizational forms. The criteria most often used for successful library service in the junior college (size of collection, size of staff, space, circulation figures) are called "process" criteria, and their use is analogous to judging an instructional program by the number of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Libraries, Library Services, Two Year Colleges, Mathies, Lorraine
The speaker traces the history of early academies in New York State, with their several forms and functions, until the establishment of the public community college under the State University Law of 1948. Its students now make up 60% of the University's enrollment. According to the State Regents, it should (1) be supported as providing a broader public post-secondary educational opportunity; (2) be open to all high-school graduates (or equivalent), operated at low cost, and reasonably...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Relevance (Education), Two Year Colleges, Doran, Kenneth T.
This report presents a "cookbook" approach to assist any teacher or researcher not familiar with statistics in comparing performance differences between two classes using group medians. Illustrations are provided for comparing group medians in hypothetical situations in several disciplines (English, math, philosophy, political science). (JC)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Evaluation, Statistics, Two Year Colleges, Connor, Aikin
Papers and addresses presented at this junior college conference included: the planning of statewide subject-are conferences, long-range master planning of curricula and campuses, workshop for admission officers and registrars, the use of advisory committees, uniform accounting practices, proposed state legislation, community services, responsibility of the college to the socioeconomically deprived, academic preparation of the faculty, a master of arts program in teaching for the instructors,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Two Year Colleges, Darnes, G. Robert, Ed.
AN EXAMPLE OF AN ADOPTED BUDGET FOR A JUNIOR COLLEGE OF MEDIUM SIZE IS PRESENTED IN TABULAR FORM, SHOWING CHANGES IN FINANCES OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS, PLUS AN ESTIMATE FOR THE COMING YEAR. THE FIGURES ARE GIVEN IN DOLLAR VALUES AND IN PERCENTAGES FOR ALL SOURCES OF INCOME AND, IN DETAIL, FOR TEN MAJOR CATEGORIES OF EXPENDITURE. (HH)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgets, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Income, Two Year Colleges
The Junior College, typically considered an American creation, is an institution whose inception and early development was greatly affected by a variety of Western European influences. English and Scottish elements during the Colonial period, and the influence of French ideas in the late 18th and early 19th centuries had significant impact on the development of the philosophical perspectives and "personality" of the junior college. Germanic influences (particularly on the early...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Chronicles, Educational History, Two Year Colleges, Getty, Ronald
The five parts of this report are: research on instruction; faculty dissertations; inter-institutional research; in-college research; and college-endorsed research. The first covers experiments in teaching French, practical nursing, English, math, and chemistry, and in giving examinations. Faculty dissertations include studies of post-graduate activities of student government officers; effects of seating arrangements in counseling; confirmation experiences related to self-image; concepts of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experiments, Institutional Research, Research Projects, Two Year Colleges
Designed for students at Austin Community College, these four handouts summarize the major citation formats used today, including a social sciences format (American Psychological Association), a sciences format (Council of Biology Editors), the standard Turabian format, and the Modern Language Association (MLA) format. One side of each handout provides examples of footnotes or in-text citations, while the other side shows how to cite various types of materials in a bibliography. The sheets...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Citations (References), Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges
An advisory committee is generally comprised of persons outside the education profession who have specialized knowledge in a given area. The committee advises, makes recommendations, and gives service to the college and its students, instructors, and administrators. At Black Hawk College, there are four types of advisory committees: community, program, special (ad Hoc), and affiliate (interinstitutional). Qualifications of advisory committee members include: experience, adequate time, and good...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advisory Committees, Community Colleges, Guides, Two Year Colleges
The set of standards contained in this bulletin was approved by the Maryland State Board of Education in March 1969. The standards were designed to implement provisions of certain sections of laws relating to the establishment and operation of the state's 2-year colleges. The bulletin also contains paragraphs on definition of terms, purposes and objectives, admissions, faculty, instruction, curriculum, library, laboratories, graduation, catalog and announcements, student welfare and activities,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Planning, State Legislation, State Standards, Two Year Colleges
Five personality scales, developed without regard to theory, were administered to 96 high school students. The correlations of these scales with four standard measures of academic achievement were compared with personality-achievement correlations from previous studies that used personality scales derived theoretically. These latter correlations were no larger, a result interpreted to mean that personality-achievement correlations are not enhanced by the use of theoretically derived personality...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement, Prediction, Testing, Two Year Colleges, Levonian, Edward
AAJC became the coordinator between USOE and colleges needing help (under Title III), after lack of expertise by those needing it most had become apparent in applications for federal funds. Agreement was reached on an extensive 3-part program: expert consultants to help colleges assess their strengths, weaknesses, and potential; national and regional meetings for exchange of ideas; year-round flow of information. The funds for 85 colleges (and selected associates) were handled expeditiously....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences, Consultants, Developing Institutions, Two Year Colleges, Workshops
These procedures--developed by a special commission of the National Faculty Association of Community and Junior Colleges--describe the frequency, nature, process, and scope of such actions. The criteria and methods of evaluation are set at an initial conference between the evaluation team and the faculty member, and the college is obligated to make a genuine effort to assist each member in the improvement of his instruction. If a faculty member's contract is recommended for non-renewal by the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Discipline Policy, Disqualification, Faculty Evaluation, Two Year Colleges
A REVIEW OF THE AVAILABLE LITERATURE INDICATED A NEED TO BROADEN THE TRADITIONAL CONCEPTION OF COMPREHENSION AND TO EXTEND THE USUAL RANGE OF READING SKILLS IN A READING TEST WITH FOUR MAJOR DIVISIONS--(1) RATE IS A TEST OF THE READER'S READING SPEED, (2) VOCABULARY ITEMS TEST HIS RECOGNITION OF WORDS, TERMS, AND IDIOMS, AS WELL AS HIS ABILITY TO INFER MEANINGS FROM THE CONTEXT, (3) COMPREHENSION SECTIONS TEST ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE STRUCTURE OF WRITTEN MATERIAL, TO ABSORB SPECIFIC AND...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reading Tests, Test Construction, Two Year Colleges, KURAK, ALEX
This study reports findings related to student attrition in 13 colleges. Several tests, such as The Omnibus Personality Inventory, were used to determine the personality characteristics of students who leave college prior to graduation. Included in the findings are: (1) peers and parents rank high in the help asked for and received, with the college personnel coming in a poor third; (2) college personnel appear to be contacted after decisions to withdraw have been solidified; (3) 20% of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropout Characteristics, Student Attitudes, Two Year Colleges, Hannah, William
This report is a model of an extensive feasibility study for the establishment of a 4-county junior college district. It covers all aspects of organizing and pursuing the study. From questionnaires and census data, the committees compiled demographic information on the area and on the educational needs of adults, business, and industry. The survey uses various methods for projecting enrollment figures and gives recommendations on curricula for various programs: pre-professional...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Planning, Feasibility Studies, Planning, Surveys, Two Year Colleges
This survey of 413 students in the seven county high schools provided Yavapai College with data to help it plan student personnel services. It collected data on (1) how many seniors planned to enroll in fall 1969; (2) the course they planned to take; (3) whether it was transfer or occupational; (4) whether they would attend full- or part-time; (5) what degree, if any, they aspired to; (6) what specific occupational courses they wanted; (7) where they planned to live and eat; (8) how many would...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Needs, Student Personnel Services, Surveys, Two Year Colleges
This review of literature on junior college faculty recruitment covers several aspects. Before active recruitment begins, the governing board should develop accurate job descriptions, criteria of personality and staff balance, systematic appraisal methods, wide involvement in selection, efficient assignment procedures, and promotion criteria. It must also make sure the recruiter knows its policies. To determine the need for new faculty, a ratio can be established among full-time faculty,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Faculty Recruitment, Two Year Colleges, Gaddy, Dale
The junior college today faces the challenge of providing quality post-secondary education for its minority and less affluent members. This document contains 24 articles on junior college programs for the disadvantaged. They have previously been published in the Junior College Journal from 1965 through 1970. (CA)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Services, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Programs, Two Year Colleges
This bibliography includes 161 entries with particular emphasis on the community-junior college. Major sources of literature include bibliographies prepared by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, and the Center for Development of Community College Education. Nineteen other sources were consulted, including "Dissertation Abstracts" (1938-1966), the "Education Index," the "Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature" (1955-1967), and "Research in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Governance, Participation, Two Year Colleges, Riess, Louis C.
THE MAJOR SOURCES ON WHICH THIS NEED SURVEY IS BASED INCLUDE AN ADMINISTRATORS' INFORMATION FORM DEVELOPED SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS STUDY, THE JUNIOR COLLEGE DIRECTORY, AND THE EDUCATION DIRECTORY, 1963-64, PART III. THERE WILL BE A NEED FOR NEARLY 3,000 NEW ADMINISTRATORS IN MAJOR POSITIONS OVER THE NEXT 15 YEARS, INCLUDING 1,403 PRESIDENTS, 1,507 CHIEF ACADEMIC DEANS, 956 CHIEF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS, AND 1,041 CHIEF BUSINESS MANAGERS. AT PRESENT, CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN HALF OF ALL...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Employment Qualifications, Two Year Colleges, SCHULTZ, RAYMOND E.
The Associated Consultants in Education were hired by Florida Junior College to help determine how the college could meet the needs of its students and to devise an organizational structure that would help achieve its goals. Five vice-presidencies (Instructional Services, Administrative and Business Affairs, Student Services, Planning and Development, and Assistant to the President) and two Campus Provosts were recommended to fill the second-line administrative structure. The duties and staff...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Consultants, Educational Planning, Two Year Colleges, Wygal, Benjamin R.
This analysis involves enrollment data from Fall 1966 through Spring 1968. It compares two colleges and all California junior colleges in terms of age (defined as adults, minors, and baccalaureate degree holders or higher) and hours of attendance (12 or more hours as full-time, less than 12 hours as part-time) of students. Tables provide data as follows: (1) annual increase or decrease in graded classes by full-time or part-time students. The part-time category is analyzed as adults (age 21 and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Enrollment, Instructional Program Divisions, Two Year Colleges
Teacher preparation is a critical problem for the 2-year college in terms of recruitment and training and the varying qualifications among states, communities, schools within a community, and even within a single college. AAJC, with Carnegie funds, has undertaken a Faculty Development Project. More than 30 experts attended a conference, at which they covered such aspects of the problem as stereotypes, flexibility, diversity of objectives, incentives, status, the college mission, personality,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Faculty Recruitment, Teacher Education, Teacher Qualifications, Two Year Colleges
IN ADDITION TO AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF 214 DISSERTATIONS ABOUT THE JUNIOR COLLEGE, A SUBJECT INDEX AND AN INDEX OF INSTITUTIONAL SOURCES ARE PROVIDED. THIS DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE IN HARD COPY FOR $1.00 FROM AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF JUNIOR COLLEGES, 1315 SIXTEENTH ST., NW, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036. (WO)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Two Year Colleges, ROUECHE, JOHN E.
DESIGNED TO FACILITATE THE PLANNING OF PROGRAMS FOR TRANSFER STUDENTS, AGREEMENTS HAVE BEEN NEGOTIATED BETWEEN THE LOS ANGELES CITY JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT AND EACH OF FOUR SENIOR INSTITUTIONS. DISPLAYS SHOW JUNIOR COLLEGE COURSES ACCEPTABLE FOR MEETING SENIOR INSTITUTION REQUIREMENTS IN GENERAL EDUCATION, MAJOR FIELDS, AND TEACHER EDUCATION. GENERAL LISTINGS SHOW ALL TRANSFER COURSES OFFERED BY THE JUNIOR COLLEGES WITH PARALLEL COURSE DESIGNATIONS AT THE 4-YEAR INSTITUTIONS. (HH)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), Higher Education, Transfer Programs, Two Year Colleges
This bibliography was designed to assist librarians and junior college administrators in the establishment of new junior college libraries and in the improvement of library facilities, resources, procedures, and services in existing institutions. The materials have been selected for colleges with projected enrollments of 1,000 students and collections of at least 20,000 volumnes. The bibliography is composed of selected references to books, periodicals, reports, and theses published from 1955...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographies, College Libraries, Libraries, Library Planning, Two Year Colleges
