Community College Review articles from March 2001

Community College Review archives from March 2001

The Impact of Community Colleges on the School-to-Work Transition: A Multilevel Analysis.
March 22, 2001... In the past several decades scholars have expressed increasing concern about the school-to-work transition at all levels of education (William T. Grant Foundation 1988; Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce 1990; Hershey et. al...

The Career Lines of Chief Academic Officers in Public Community Colleges.
March 22, 2001... Administrative careers in higher education have typically been examined from two perspectives: individual and structural. The vast majority of these studies are from the individual orientation and place attention on the demographics and...

Editor's Choice: The Efficacy of Service-Learning for Community College ESL Students.(English as a second language)
March 22, 2001... Higher education has been criticized for failing to address meaningful environmental, economic, and social problems as well as failing to prepare college graduates to meet the rigors of socially responsible citizenship (Readon, 1998). There is...

ERIC Review: The Role of Community Colleges in Training Tomorrow's School Teachers.
March 22, 2001... Over the next 10 years, the U.S. will be facing a shortage of elementary and secondary teachers. In 1997, Secretary of Education Richard Riley estimated that schools will need to hire 2 million teachers during the next decade to replace...

Managing Colleges and Universities: Issues for Leadership.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Managing Colleges and Universities: Issues for Leadership edited by Allan M. Hoffman and Randal W. Summers. Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Connecticut. 2000, 221 pages. ISBN:0-89789-645-9. Reviewed by Mark Oromaner. This is an uneven...

Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education edited by Rim Dunn and Shirley A. Griggs. Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Connecticut, 2000, 269 pages, $64.50, Hardcover, ISBN: 089789703X. Reviewed by David L. Dollar. In...