Community College Review articles from March 2007

Community College Review archives from March 2007

Editor's note.(Editorial)
March 22, 2007... This issue of the Community College Review is certainly one of the most interesting and informative ones I have been associated with since becoming editor. The subject of the volume--the work of Arthur M. Cohen--covers most of the history of...

The scholarly contributions of Arthur M. Cohen: a special issue of Community College Review.(Introduction)
March 22, 2007... In 2004, Arthur M. Cohen retired from the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), after an exceptional 40-year career. Working with spouse and colleague Florence B. Brawer, Professor Cohen established and led the ERIC...

Advancing research on the community college.(Report)
March 22, 2007... Arthur M. Cohen and his colleagues at the Center for the Study of Community Colleges have made significant and broad contributions to the scholarly literature and empirical research about community colleges. Although Cohen's interests are...

Organizing and making sense of the literature: Arthur M. Cohen as Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges, 1966-2003.(Report)
March 22, 2007... A major part of Arthur M. Cohen's scholarly legacy is the archive of documents and journal articles catalogued by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges, which he led throughout its entire 37-year history (1966-2003). As Clearinghouse...

The Cohen contribution to community college leadership.(Arthur M. Cohen )(Report)
March 22, 2007... Arthur M. Cohen has spoken to community college leaders on a diverse array of issues for many years. This article focuses on his contributions to this leadership in three major areas: (a) providing a vision of community colleges as collegiate...

Teaching and mentoring future leaders in the field.(Report)
March 22, 2007... Any discussion of Arthur M. Cohen's contributions to community colleges must include the students he taught and mentored during his 40 years as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Arthur Cohen and his colleague and spouse,...

Student appreciation of Arthur M. Cohen's teaching and scholarship.(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Over his 40-year career as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Arthur Cohen was the major advisor to almost 70 doctoral students. Few professors are able to shape the future leadership of a field as Arthur Cohen has...

Research that makes things better.
March 22, 2007... When I was asked to write a personal tribute to Arthur Cohen, I gratefully but nervously accepted the task. Describing Arthur's profound influence on my professional and intellectual development in words rather than in thoughts or conversation...

A change in direction.
March 22, 2007... Having entered UCLA's Graduate School of Education after growing up in New York and attending a private university back East, I had no understanding of the significance of community colleges' role in higher education and certainly no interest...

Arthur Cohen as a mentor.
March 22, 2007... I first met Dr. Cohen in the fall of 1993 when I began my graduate work at UCLA. Two years prior, I transferred to UCLA from Los Angeles Valley College, one of the nine comprehensive community colleges in the Los Angeles Community College...

"Dragging the past behind us".
March 22, 2007... Many great universities define their missions as a mixture of teaching, research, and service. This tripartite division is quite useful for describing the impact Arthur Cohen has had on me, one of his many PhD students. As a teacher, Dr....

An appreciation of Art Cohen from the perspective of a practitioner and former graduate student.(Arthur Cohen)(Personal account)
March 22, 2007... When I enrolled in the graduate school of education at UCLA in fall 1969, I had not heard of Arthur Cohen. I was inclined to focus my studies on the more traditional college and university institutions in which, up to that time, I had studied,...

The "art" of teaching and scholarship: Arthur Cohen's influence on my development as an educational professional.(Personal account)
March 22, 2007... By the time I started graduate school at UCLA, Arthur Cohen was a seasoned and seemingly gruff professor, which, in the eyes of many students, including mine, made him a formidable figure. After a couple of courses and working with him at the...

Arthur M. Cohen's publications: a selected bibliography.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2007... Arthur M. Cohen's publications over a 40-year period, many coauthored with Florence B. Brawer, reflect his continual efforts to describe the American community college accurately. This Festschrift concludes with a bibliography of Professor...