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Scheller, Myrnabelle B. – 1978
Following a literature review of occupational advisory committee models, a model meeting twentieth-century needs and trends was developed. The design and organizational structure of the model provides for the following: a planned, accountable method of accomplishing goals and for promoting the image of vocational education; a planned, accountable…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning, Coordination
Howell, James Dale – 1976
A questionnaire listing 58 competencies in English was mailed to 432 administrators, vocational teachers, and English teachers in the 38 community colleges and technical institutes in North Carolina which were willing to participate in the study. Respondents were asked to rate the importance of each competency for vocational students preparing for…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations
Download full textSchnook, Friedrich P. – 1998
This case study examines the relationships of three organizations participating in the Northwest Wisconsin School-To-Work Consortium, and analyzes the consortium's development over the past 4 years. Signed into law in May 1994, the federal School-To-Work Opportunities Act marked the beginning of a new educational movement to better prepare…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Employment, Federal Legislation
Blair, Richard Scott – 1973
A case study was conducted in order to explore the working relationships between the administrative staff of Belleville Area College (BAC) in Illinois and the members of its 21 vocational-technical advisory committees. Case study methods included interviews with administrators, supervisors of curriculum areas, and coordinators; attendance at…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Advisory Committees, Citizen Participation
Decker, Dwight F. – 1976
Vocational-technical students (n=92) and liberal arts students (n=156) were the subjects of a study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of four instructional strategies intended to produce mastery. Strategies employed were: traditional instruction with no make-up exams; unlimited make-up exams with end of semester deadline; unlimited make-up…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Testing, Formative Evaluation
Malone, Eugene W. – 1976
The purposes of this study were to design a model for promoting and guiding the development of a systematic approach to coordinating program planning in vocational education between the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) and its feeder high schools; to identify problem areas in articulation and achieve a consensus on priority…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Cooperative Planning
Suchorski, Joan M. – 1987
One of the most significant developments in higher education over the past decade has been the increased linkages between colleges and other organizations and institutions. A prominent and fast-growing form of linkage is contract training. Contract training refers to an arrangement in which a business, a government agency, or a community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Contract Training, Economic Development, Educational Trends
Leeking, Linda L. – 1978
An investigation was done to ascertain the effectiveness of individualized instructional methods as compared with traditional instructional methods in vocational food service programs at the community college level. Subjects, forty-three hotel/motel restaurant management students, were divided into subgroups: students who transferred from another…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Class Attitudes, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Schorzmann, Eugene F. – 1979
The full-time equivalent enrollment (FTEE) has been a significant factor to Iowa's 15 area community colleges for cost analysis, production comparisons, and for the distribution of state aid. The FTEE formula calculates units of production according to the ratio of reimbursable contact hours (RCH) to total contact hours generated by student…
Descriptors: Average Daily Attendance, Average Daily Membership, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Taylor, Helen L. Sally – 1978
A survey of Washington State community college early childhood education (ECE) graduates was conducted to discover whether they performed and were adequately trained to perform a variety of social and human services tasks. These include outreach, broker, evaluator, teacher, behavior modifier, mobilizer (promoting neighborhood programs),…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Harada, Myra – 1993
Although the Japanese junior college was the result of post-World War II American interventions to create a post-secondary educational system along the lines of the American community college, the institutions in the two countries have taken divergent paths. Both institutions do provide a general, postsecondary education of a shorter duration.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Area Studies, College Administration, Community Colleges
Yess, James P. – 1979
The intent of this study was to determine the influence of selected independent variables on the graduating grade point average (GPA) of community college students in various programs of study. A sample of 483 students from one community college represented seven programs of study: Business Administration-General, Business Administration-Transfer,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations
