Community College Review articles from June 2001

Community College Review archives from June 2001

An Assessment of the Community College's Influence on the Relative Economic Development of a County.
June 22, 2001... Abstracts The study investigated the impact of establishing a community college upon a county's relative economic development. Census data from 1940 through 1990 were used in graphical analysis of short-time series, ratio comparisons, and...

Business Faculty Recruitment: The Effects of Full-Time Versus Part-Time Employment.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Abstracts This study addressed faculty recruitment for community colleges, an issue of immediate importance because many faculty hired during the enrollment boom of the 1960's are retiring. The design for this research was a factorial...

Informal Student-Faculty Interaction: Its Relationship to Educational Gains in Science and Mathematics Among Community College Students.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2001... Abstracts The central purpose of this study was to examine the connection between informal student-faculty interaction, the perceived quality of effort asserted in science courses, and perceived educational gains in science-and...

Editor's Choice: An Open Memo to Community College Faculty and Administrators.
June 22, 2001... Abstracts To maintain a strong presence with higher education, the community college should consider itself a discourse community, a concept that borrows from "speech community." Understanding this concept is helpful in conceptualizing the...

ERIC Review: Issues in Global Education Initiatives in the Community College.
June 22, 2001... Abstracts This review of literature examines the impact of globablization on the community college missions and the expected competencies that students should acquire from a community college education. In the late 1990s, many community...

Community Colleges as Cultural Texts: Qualitative Explorations of Organizational and Student Culture.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Community Colleges as Cultural Texts: Qualitative Explorations of Organizational and Student Culture edited by Kathleen M. Shaw, James R. Valadez, and Robert A. Rhoads. State University of New York Press, Albany, New York. 1999, 213 pages,...