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Download full textHolbrook, Marcia – 1993
Teaching basic writing at an open-admissions, urban, commuter community college involves the instructor with a clientele of student writers with a wide variety and complexity of needs and abilities. According to much research, demands by some scholars for having students write more than just "themes" is inappropriate for such students.…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges
Herd, Ruby H. – 1977
Following a description of the facilities, programs, and students of El Centro College (Texas), this paper reviews the conflicts arising between the mandates of external certifying boards, the expectations of hospital administrators and other medical personnel, and the realities of community college philosophy, planning, staffing and budgeting for…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Administrative Problems, Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges
Hammer, Petra; Shale, Douglas – 1981
The effectiveness of open admissions and delivery of educational services at a distance in serving adult learners enrolled at Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada, was studied in 1979-80 through an analysis of demographic and geographic information on 2,491 students. Information was gathered on the following characteristics: sex, age, number of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Correspondence Study, Delivery Systems
Hale, Frank W., Jr. – Journal of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, 1980
A speech delivered at the National Association of College Deans, Registrars and Admissions Officers on March 16, 1980 in Alabama, presents a case for the continued existence of Black colleges. Suggests Black colleges have an important role in educating Black youth and recommends improvements for Black colleges. (RC)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Education
Cepeda, Rita – 1994
The mission of the California Community Colleges, first articulated in the "Master Plan for Higher Education" (1960) and since reaffirmed in California Assembly Bill 1725, is to provide Californians with quality courses and programs in transfer and career education and in the mastery of basic skills and English as a Second Language…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Educational Demand
Fizzell, Robert L. – 1978
The American educational system is based upon outmoded premises and should be revised in line with present trends and future needs. Our present system of education was created to serve an industrial society: to develop an elite cadre of well educated professionals, a mass of somewhat educated technical workers, and a solid base of laborers. It…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Attitude Change, Change Strategies
Kelly, Dorothy Ann – 1980
Perspectives on adult students at the College of New Rochelle are offered in response to Howard R. Bowen's address entitled, "Adult Learning, Higher Education, and the Economics of Unused Capacity." The College of New Rochelle suggests a modest modification of Bowen's thesis that there should be efforts toward full integration of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students
