Offers an untraditional approach to the freshman year in college based on various notions including the formulated concept of Functional Potential (FP). (DS)

This article reviews the literature pertaining to community college faculty in the humanities--their backgrounds and preparation; inservice training; satisfaction, attitudes, and values; and approaches to curriculum and instruction. (Author/NHM)

This paper examines recent efforts by community college educators to enhance the liberal arts in a curriculum which is increasingly dominated by career, compensatory, and community education programs. The paper first notes the decline of the transfer function at today's community colleges and argues that the liberal arts, if they are to survive,…

Traces the current status of the community college academic curriculum through data from several national studies conducted by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges over the past 10 years. Sees the Humanities, Sciences, Fine Arts, Mathematics, and English Composition as the academic disciplinary core of the collegiate curriculum. (CBC)

The result of a 2-year research project conducted by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges, this report summarizes trends in humanities education in the two-year colleges in the United States as revealed through national surveys of full- and part-time humanities instructors, campus facilitators, and community service directors. The first…

This paper describes the JumpStart project, a two-year grant program initiated by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) to help community colleges develop entrepreneurship education efforts. Following a brief introduction, findings are presented from an initial review of existing community…

The fine and performing arts have long been a part of the two-year college curriculum, though the organizational structures of the colleges have afforded these courses limited visibility and widely varying roles within the curriculum. In 1987, a study was conducted by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges to determine the goals and…

This monograph reviews the faculty teaching the humanities in two-year colleges: their backgrounds and preparation, involvement with inservice training, job satisfaction, attitudes and values, and approaches to curriculum and instruction. Information was derived by an extensive search of the literature. Materials were identified by scanning 34…

Summarizes findings from a national study of the students, staff, and programs that make up community college fine arts departments. Reviews the history of community colleges' involvement in the fine and performing arts, student characteristics and goals, support for arts programs within the schools, and policy issues. (DMM)

Specific facets of the collegiate function of the community college are analyzed in this book. Chapter 1 defines the collegiate function as an amalgam of the liberal arts curriculum and efforts to promote student transfer. Chapter 2 focuses on the liberal arts curriculum, pointing to patterns in enrollments and courses offered in the disciplines…

This monograph provides a comprehensive overview of community college education in the United States. Chapter I reviews the social forces that contributed to the development and expansion of community colleges and the continuing changes in institutional purposes. The changing patterns of community college student characteristics are the focus of…

The findings and conclusions of a study of curriculum and instruction in two-year college social science, science, and science-related technology programs are summarized in three sections. The first selects from 1977-1978 curriculum data which were gathered from catalogs and class schedules of a representative national sample of 175 two-year…

This book provides a comprehensive overview of community college education in the United States, emphasizing trends affecting two-year colleges in the past decade. Chapter 1 identifies social forces contributing to the development and expansion of community colleges and the continuing changes in institutional purpose. Chapter 2 examines shifting…

This monograph provides a comprehensive overview of community college education in the United States, emphasizing trends affecting two-year colleges within the past decade. Chapter 1 identifies the social forces that contributed to the development and expansion of community colleges and the continuing changes in institutional purposes. Chapter 2…