Community College Review articles from September 2000

Community College Review archives from September 2000

The Revised Institution: The Community College Mission at the End of the Twentieth Century.
September 22, 2000... Seven urban and rural community colleges in the United States and Canada were examined using a qualitative multiple-case-study design to define changes in the colleges' institutional missions during the 1990s. Group site visits, personal...

Community Colleges under the Microscope: An Analysis of Performance Predictors for Native and Transfer Students.
September 22, 2000... Stratified random samples of native and transfer students at a university were compared based on data extracted from student transcripts for 1989, 1990, and 1991. Transfers' first-semester GPAs at the university were less than their community...

Critical Academic Skills for Kansas Community College Graduates: A Delphi Study.
September 22, 2000... A three-round Delphi survey was used to gain consensus among 23 community college administrators and faculty representing 19 community colleges in Kansas. First-round participants defined 199 critical academic skills for community college...

ERIC Review: Community College Teaching--Toward Collegiality and Community.
September 22, 2000... This review of the literature focuses on community college faculty and their teaching practices. After summarizing faculty demographic changes since the 1970s, the author describes both obstacles to effective teaching and the innovations that...

The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe edited by Dick Raspa and Dane Ward. American Library Association, Chicago, Illinois. 2000, 158 pages, $24.00 Cloth, ISBN 0-8389-8085-6. ...

Evaluating, Improving, and Judging Faculty Performance in Two-Year Colleges.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Evaluating, Improving, and Judging Faculty Performance in Two-Year Colleges by Richard I. Miller, Charles Finley, and Candace Shedd Vancko. Bergin & Gravey, Westport, Connecticut. 2000, 181 pages, $55.00 Hardback, ISBN 0-89789-692-0. It is...

Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web by Judith Boettcher and Rita-Marie Conrad. League for Innovation in the Community College, Mission Viejo, California (www.leaguestore.org). 1999, 136 pages, $25.00 Paper. Web-based...