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Download full textMabry, Theo N. – 1988
Thoughtful, well-planned and systematic reviews of both instructional and noninstructional programs provide community colleges with a way of determining whether programs are meeting stated objectives and what standards of performance should be maintained. Programs that need improvement or should be eliminated can be identified, and fiscal…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Colleges, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Quimbita, Grace – 1989
Student tracking systems are enabling increasing numbers of community colleges to respond to external demands for accountability with tangible measurements of student progress and institutional outcomes. Several recent trends in marketing, accountability, communications with students, and internal competition for resources have prompted interest…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria
McKinney, Kristen – 1997
This Digest discusses computer assisted advisory practices currently in use in community colleges, outlining the types of data collected and how they are used, including the use of tracking to plan interventions for at-risk students. Enhanced computer technology has improved the effectiveness of academic advising by enabling more thorough and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Records, Community Colleges, Computers
Williams, Dana Nicole, Ed. – 1990
In March 1990, the Center for the Study of Community Colleges in Los Angeles hosted a Transfer Assembly as part of an on-going effort to stabilize the imprecise definitions and data relating to student transfers from community colleges to four-year institutions. This report provides excerpts from six of the presentations given to the assembly.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Articulation (Education), College Role, College Transfer Students
ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, Los Angeles, CA. – 1985
A review is provided of statewide and institutional data reflecting the magnitude and causes of the reverse transfer phenomenon. First, data from California, North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, and Minnesota are presented, contrasting the numbers of students who transfer from two- to four-year colleges to the sometimes greater number of students…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedMacDougall, Peter, Ed.; Friedlander, Jack, Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1990
Recent mandates from state and accrediting agencies are requiring community colleges to provide evidence of their success in such areas as basic skills and remediation, general education, major-field content, student development, transfer effectiveness, job training, job placement, and fiscal accountability. This volume, in addition to describing…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Community Colleges, Consortia, Data Collection
Rifkin, Tronie – 1998
Studies show that community colleges with more liberal arts courses have higher rates of transfer to four-year institutions than those with a less general curriculum. This paper surveys the research conducted on the community college collegiate function in order determine the influence of the liberal arts curriculum and student support services on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Articulation (Education), College Curriculum
