This external evaluation report is based on the results of a household survey in which representatives of 1,800 scientifically selected sample households in the Galveston County service area of the College of the Mainland were interviewed. The survey intended to measure how the college was viewed by the community and to assess the extent and…

This paper describes the systematic approach utilized in the development of a survey instrument for use in a community assessment survey. The purpose behind the development of the survey instrument was to enable the Office of Research and Development at Central Florida Community College (CFCC) to determine by means of telephone interviews the…

Summarizes the methodology and findings of a telephone survey conducted by Central Florida Community College to identify the educational needs of its service district. Discusses the role of an advisory committee in planning the study, the pilot testing of the questionnaire, interviewer training, publicity, funding, and costs. (JP)

This study was initiated by Florissant Valley Community College and conducted by Systems Development Corporation to determine the priority of educational/information needs of three target groups: women, blacks, and older Americans. Among the aims of the project was the identification of existing constraints on community access to sources of…

To assess the needs of residents in proximity to the Downtown Center of Bakersfield College (California), a stratified random sampling of addresses was chosen and adults at each address were interviewed. A total of 422 interviews were conducted by sociology students from the college and by paid student interviewers. Thirty-five percent of the…

As the second in a series of eight reports detailing the findings of a community telephone survey conducted by the Coast Community District in 1980, this three-part report examines study findings related to the extent to which the District's marketing information reaches community residents and the degree to which residents take advantage of…

A study was conducted by East Los Angeles College (ELAC) to determine the economic, demographic, and ethnic composition of ELAC's service district. The study involved the examination of community data collected from a variety of sources, including the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Department, the Los Angeles Times Marketing Research…

This study was commissioned to provide data related to program and facility needs of the community college proposed in the Lewiston-Auburn area. A brief history of the two-year college movement in general, and in Maine in particular, is followed by descriptions of three area surveys. The High School Survey of 2,246 junior and senior year students…

In determining the feasibility of establishing a new, two-year community college in St. Tammany's Parish to serve a three parish area, this study examined data on socioeconomic and population descriptions of the proposed service area; follow-up studies of high school students for previous years; and area high school and post-high school programs…

A telephone survey of area residents was conducted by the Coast Community College District during Spring 1980 to assess citizen awareness of the District's programs and to determine area educational needs. Approximately 4,800 individual telephone numbers were dialed to obtain completed interviews with 546 residents, representing a geographically…

The purposes of this study were to survey the regional community served by Pensacola Junior College, to determine the number and location of adults over 25 years of age who have not completed the eighth grade, to determine how much education is already being provided for these adults, and to make recommendations concerning the educational needs…

In collaboration with a county hospital and two local government planning offices, Greenfield Community College (GCC) conducted a survey of 1,200 randomly selected residents of Franklin County, Massachusetts, to obtain a demographic profile of area citizens and to identify their needs in the areas of postsecondary education, health care,…

This document provides an overview and summary of the findings of 14 separate studies conducted as part of a project to evaluate the impact of the nine British Columbia community colleges with respect to students, the higher education system, and the community at large. In the course of the four-year project, data were gathered on academic ability…

A study was conducted to examine the effects of a one-hour credit community services laboratory attached to a three-hour credit social sciences course on community college student participants in terms of alienation, perceived student role, and course satisfaction. The community services laboratory consisted of an outside project engaging the…