Community College Review articles from June 2000

Community College Review archives from June 2000

Career Stages of Community College Faculty: A Qualitative Analysis of their Career Paths, Roles, and Development.
June 22, 2000... Twenty-two faculty at a Midwestern community college were interviewed to elicit their perceptions of their career paths, their early-stage career roles, and the role played by faculty development in their early careers. Based on the interview...

Community College Faculty Recruitment: Predictors of Applicant Attraction to Faculty Positions.
June 22, 2000... Each of 176 MBA program students provided biographical data and rated his or her reactions to one of four different simulated position ads for a community college business faculty position. Ads varied based on job location within a state...

Are We Marginalized within Academe? Perceptions of Two-Year College Faculty.
June 22, 2000... A sample of 311 faculty at seven community colleges completed survey questions that elicited their ratings of statements about four-year faculty attitudes toward two-year college faculty and about their own perceptions of their status within...

Editor's Choice: Valuing Diversity--Student-Teacher Relationships that Enhance Achievement.
June 22, 2000... Based on experience as a developmental writing teacher, the author describes strategies for promoting student success within diverse groups of learners. After discussing how teachers can innocently contribute to student failure, the author...

ERIC Review: An Examination of Non-Liberal-Arts Course Transferability in California.
June 22, 2000... Course catalogs and class schedules were examined from all 26 community colleges in California to determine the extent of non-liberal-arts course transferability by subject area to the California State University and to the University of...

The Community College in the Twenty-First Century: A Systems Approach.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Community College in the Twenty-First Century: A Systems Approach by Michael Scott Cain. University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland. 1999, 168 pages, $32.00, Cloth, ISBN 0-7618-1357-8. Reviewed by Clifford P. Harbour In The...

Five Perspectives on Teaching in Adult and Higher Education.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Five Perspectives on Teaching in Adult and Higher Education by Daniel D. Pratt and Associates. Kreiger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. 1998, 289 pages, $32.50 Cloth, ISBN 0-89464-937-X. Reviewed by David L. Dollar. Five Perspectives...