Maintaining an active research agenda while teaching full-time at a community college can be daunting, but with institutional support for scholarly research by way of course release it is possible. This personal reflection offers up evidence of institutional support from a variety of sources within the public university system of New York City,…

Andrew Delbanco is a professor of American Studies at Columbia University, author of several books. In this Q&A, "New England Journal of Higher Education" ("NEJHE") Executive Editor John O. Harney asks Delbanco about the state of higher education and intellectual life today.

Each time the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development announces that America's students are falling behind those of other countries, and with every business section article on America's trade deficit with China, America sees a new commission to reinforce the negatives and urge dramatic upgrading of the workforce. This author states…

These proceedings consist of papers presented at a conference devoted to educational resource sharing. Included in the volume are the following papers: "Educational Resource Sharing: The Challenge for Illinois" by Lewis D. Patterson; "Resource Sharing: The Test Is Yet to Come," by John W. Huther; "A Response to the…

Stresses the need for community colleges to partner with community, business, government, and their own foundations in the drive to raise funds for education while keeping up with the technological revolution. Asserts that developing alternative sources of funding is crucial in the current economy. (NB)

Reviews the literature on community colleges and private universities, applying principles of strategic management to these environments. States that private universities have the flexibility to offer a specialized program of study at a premium price, while community colleges are better able to offer low-cost services to a large group of students.…

Community education should help foment actions for extensive interagency cooperation. The major obstacles to such working partnerships are tradition, turf, lack of trust, lack of time, and the attitude that it's too much trouble. This type of thinking must be discarded if cooperative ventures are to flourish. A high level of interest exists in…

Community colleges have been criticized with respect to both the low numbers of students who transfer to four-year institutions and the inadequate preparation of the students who do transfer. However, there is no uniform method for calculating transfer students and the data that do exist on their performance indicate that they do as well as native…

Vocational and technical education planners need to be aware of and utilize four commonly used types of articulation: interinstitutional articulation (that which takes place between institutions), intra-institutional articulation (coordination that occurs within an institution), horizontal articulation (cooperative planning involving one level of…

This paper reviews four major policy proposals for higher education in California. It discusses four reports that have addressed California higher education's problematic future: "Shared Responsibility" (California Higher Education Policy Center, 1998); "Breaking the Social Contract" (RAND, 1997); "A State of…

This paper discusses fostering a sense of unity across multiple campuses of a community college. It defines multi-campus community colleges (M3C) as a community college district composed of more than one site where learning is to take place. Unity is considered the state at which the students, faculty, and staff on the various college campuses and…

Details a proposal to establish an associate degree engineering technology program to prepare students to enter a state university system. This would solve the problem of articulation between a community college and a state-related university. (JOW)

This paper provides a proposal that may help universities and community colleges support one another at a time when they are both testing the boundaries of their economic and intellectual resources. Critics agree that universities seem to have lost sight of their central purpose, and community colleges, in their growth, are now facing a massive…

Presents the statewide articulation agreements developed by Wyoming higher education institutions, resulting in a common name and numbering system for lower-division courses, as well as dual admission agreements; 2+2, 2+3, and 3+1 articulation agreements; joint delivery of degree programs; and shared data on student performance. These agreements…

Assesses the role of community colleges in enhancing international communication and understanding through educational cooperation. Urges the involvement of all American postsecondary institutions, and encourages the construction of linkages between American institutions and foreign universities and colleges. Underscores the need for appropriate…