Community College Review articles from December 1998

Community College Review archives from December 1998

Transfer Shock in an Academic Discipline: The Relationship between Students' Majors and their Academic Performance.
December 22, 1998... The study described in this report involved associate's degree recipients who were traditional age and enrolled full-time at a two-year college before pursuing their same majors at a four-year liberal arts college. Based on their majors,...

The Transforming Leader: A Meta-Ethnographic Analysis.
December 22, 1998... The author describes an analysis of the leadership literature conducted to identify the themes, patterns, and connections that define transformational leadership. Meta-ethnography is explained as a method to conduct an interpretive synthesis of...

Global Perceptions of the Community College.
December 22, 1998... The authors trace and discuss changes in location between secondary and post-secondary educational systems based on the concept of short-cycle higher education. They extend this theme globally by developing profiles of short-cycle and...

Institutional Effectiveness in Two-Year Colleges: The Southern Region of the United States.
December 22, 1998... Using institutional effectiveness criteria established by the Southern Assocation of Colleges and Schools, the authors surveyed administrators and faculty at institutions granting associate's degrees in the southern United States to elicit (a)...

Women Faculty in Community Colleges: Investigating the Mystery.
December 22, 1998... The author reviews recent literature on women faculty in higher education and in two-year institutions specifically. Existing research indicates that despite their higher numbers in administrative and faculty positions at community college,...

Ethics in Higher Education: Case Studies for Regents.
December 22, 1998... Ethics in Higher Education: Case Studies for Regents by Alexander B. Holmes. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 1996. 112 pages. $21.95. ISBN 0-8061-2857-7. Within the past year, the Regents of the State of New York exercised its...