Academic Exchange Quarterly articles from June 2000

Academic Exchange Quarterly archives from June 2000

EDITORIAL.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Do you believe in miracles? Do you cheer when a story ends in "they lived happily ever after"? Or, do you think it is possible for an institution to be "all things to all people"? If you answered "yes", "maybe", or even "sometimes" to the...

Community Liberation via the First Two Years' Curriculum.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Background: A Concern and Context There is a new window of opportunity to liberate the minds of communities through community colleges' formal and informal liberal arts curriculum. However, for America's community colleges to capitalize on...

Mathematics: Keystone to Student Learning.
June 22, 2000... Have you noticed, too, how people with a talent for calculation are naturally quick at learning almost any subject; and how a training in it makes a slow mind quicker, even if it does no other good? - Plato, The Republic(1) Introduction...

Spending the Summer at a California Community College.
June 22, 2000... Introduction The label "summer sessioners" coined by Hagedorn and Castro (in press) designates the growing subset of non-traditional transfer students who regularly attend four-year baccalaureate institutions but elect to attend a...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2000... The article "A Brain Based Model School for a Low Socio-economic Rural School..." published in the Spring 2000 issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly should have referred to the authors as O'Sullivan, J. & Watson, J.. We apologize for any...

Professional Development Needs Assessment for Secondary Vocational and Technical Education Teachers Related to Students with Special Needs.
June 22, 2000... Introduction In most states, secondary vocational and technical education teachers obtain their teaching licenses as a result of their occupational experiences and not as a result of their vocational teacher training. This licensing option...

Learning Style Preferences Relating to Adult Students.
June 22, 2000... Introduction Research pertaining to learning styles suggests that it is important to first define learning and then styles of learning. According to B. F. Skinner (1974), learning is any change in behavior. Harasyrn, Leong, Lucier, and...

Journal of the Plague Semester.
June 22, 2000... When I was approached to teach an ITV(1) course in English 1, thematic(2) developmental composition, I was immediately concerned about the logistic restraints this technological educational format, however progressive, might incur, given my...

Community College Student Satisfaction with the Online and Teleclass Experience.
June 22, 2000... Introduction Recent advances in technology have brought distance learning to the forefront of the education discussion today. The concept of education at a distance, however, has been present and in practice for more than a century,...

Community College Students Should Never be Treated Like Junk!
June 22, 2000... Introduction While serving the dean of counseling at a large community college, I placed a call to the counseling center from off campus. After the receptionist realized she had put me, the dean, on hold for four minutes, her reaction was...

Not So Black and White: Finding Diversity Where We Least Expect It.
June 22, 2000... Introduction No one debates the fact that college-going populations have changed over the past thirty years (c.f., Levine & Cureton, 1998); indeed, our students have become more diverse, and our institutions attempt to accommodate and...

Can Student "Hardiness" Serve as an Indicator of Likely Persistence to Graduation? Baseline Results from a Longitudinal Study(*).
June 22, 2000... Prologue: Reflections on a Baby Boomer Vignette Although college educated baby boomers may not collectively realize it, anecdotal evidence suggests that they shared a common experience just before their first day of classes--one so vivid...

University of Hawai'i Community Colleges.
June 22, 2000... Introduction The 50th state of the nation is quite unique. It is the only state consisting of islands and the only state in which the Hawaiian language is officially recognized. Despite these and other obvious differences, Hawai'i is very...

The Puente Project: Socializing and Mentoring Latino Community College Students.
June 22, 2000... Introduction Latinos are now the most rapidly growing ethnic group in the country and are expected to be the largest minority group by the year 2010 (Carnevale, 1999). Nearly 28 million Latinos live in the U.S. and currently represent 1 in...

Service-learning Brings New Dimension to Courses at MiraCosta.
June 22, 2000... Reading to the blind, teaching swimming to children with cerebral palsy, being a companion to the elderly, or brightening the lives of AIDS patients may not sound like college projects. But for a number of MiraCosta College students in a wide...

African-American and Latino Conceptualizations of the Role and Value of Community Colleges: Results from a Study of High School Students and Counselors.
June 22, 2000... Introduction Both national political contexts and more localized patterns of educational access make studying the role of community colleges in the educational pathways of California's African American and Latino communities vital for...

Why Am I Here? Student Reflections on Community College Education.
June 22, 2000... Introduction Most of us who teach at the college level emphasize the importance of reflective pedagogy: a system of education in which the professor or instructor monitors and adjusts his/her own teaching style, and adapts to a changing...

School-to-Careers Information.
June 22, 2000... What are some good sources of information regarding school-to-careers? The Internet is an excellent resource. Most states have school-to-careers sections on their respective department of education homepages. However, for an examination of...

The Art and Science of Avoiding the Dissertation.
June 22, 2000... Introduction by Ben Varner, University of Northern Colorado: Here is a well-written, humorous essay by Jayne Higgins, a doctoral student at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. She writes with clarity about the throes of writing a...

The Community College Challenge.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Community College Challenge In his review of Double Vision: A University for the 21st Century by James Duderstadt, George Keller suggests that the universities of the 21st century may need to "[change] gradually to become more attentive to...

Identity and Community in the Millennial Global Village.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Identity and Community in the Millenial Global Village In an address entitled "The Renewal of Community in Higher Education," Parker J. Palmer states, "Most of the forms of community that I see rising in our society do not have the qualities of...