Community colleges and businesses have a shared interest in preparing students and existing workers to be successful in their careers. Community colleges seek to educate and train individuals in their community to have the knowledge and skills for current jobs and long-term career opportunities. Employers seek employees with both job-specific…

Dual-enrollment (DE) science courses offer a way to strengthen the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics pipeline between high school and college. These courses offer high school students the opportunity to experience college science in a more supported environment, allowing them to adjust to the different academic and social demands…

As the country experiences a recession and institutions of higher education increase tuition to compensate for diminishing state support, the transferability of credits among and between institutions is essential to students seeking to earn a baccalaureate degree. Students, parents, and taxpayers cannot afford to pay twice for the same courses or…

Immigration status and educational opportunities are at the forefront of the current national conversation regarding "DREAMers": children of immigrants brought to the United States at a young age who lack legal status but are raised and educated in the American system. In 2006, Arizona voters passed Proposition 300, in part prohibiting…

The Department of Education has been under attack by people motivated by the perceived failure of the system to improve educational achievement on the elementary and high school levels or the desire to dramatically reduce spending and waste during troubled economic times. A new program introduced in four states seems to address competency and…

This report presents a summary of a number of outcomes-oriented studies dealing with dual enrollment (acceleration). (Contains 1 graph.)

This chapter presents lessons learned from a community college in Arizona in implementing dual-enrollment partnership programs.

The term "student swirl" was coined by Alfredo de los Santos and Irene Wright in 1990, along with the term "double-dipping" (concurrent enrollment at two institutions), to characterize the back-and-forth, multi-institutional attendance pattern common among students attending community colleges. However, traditional…

This is a report on the 2000-2001 community college courses offered in conjunction with high schools in the state of Arizona. The purpose of the partnership between the two types of institutions is to offer community college instruction to high school students. The students must be admitted to the community college in order to enroll in the…

This is a report on the 2000-2001 admission of students under 18 by Arizona community colleges. The report states that students under 18 may be admitted if they have graduated from high school or have earned a high school graduate equivalency certificate (GED). Arizona community colleges may also admit students under 18 who have scored a 930 or…

Presents a brief history of concurrent enrollment initiatives and an overview of such programs in Arizona. Reports that studies show these programs aid high school students' transition to college and accelerate the attainment of a baccalaureate degree. Describes the politics and compromises of initiatives in Arizona. (Contains 10 references.) (NB)

This annual report of the Community Colleges of Arizona for Fiscal Year (FY) 2000-2001 offers individual statistics from each of the 10 community college districts in the state. Facts for the state system include the following: (1) the annual full-time equivalent enrollment for FY 2000-2001 was 97,588, the unduplicated headcount was 349,278, and…