Focuses on the experience and lessons learned from the effort by Wisconsin's Moraine Park Technical College to develop a welfare-to-work program. Emphasizes the importance of having a strong workforce-readiness component in the training program that focuses on soft skills, such as working cooperatively and communicating clearly. (AUTH/NB)

Provides guidelines for establishing a partnership between a community college and a single high school or school district. Outlines the steps necessary for developing a concurrent enrollment program, focusing on program goals, staffing requirements, program maintenance, and institutional benefits. Discusses how to maintain quality and meet the…

States that the New World School of the Arts (NWSA) (Florida), a collaboration among Miami-Dade Public Schools, Miami-Dade Community College, and the state university system, offers dual enrollment programs for high school students preparing for careers in the arts. Describes the school's strengths-including its diversity and professional…

Discusses the position of leaders in higher education and state and federal government toward coordination, statewide planning, centralization, role definition, finance, and enrollment as they relate to Michigan postsecondary education in general and community colleges in particular. Includes results of a survey of voters and postsecondary…

Presents essential concepts, strategies, and recommendations for developing and implementing an articulation plan designed to help high school occupational graduates move successfully, and with minimum delay and duplication of effort, into community colleges and other postsecondary occupational programs. (DMM)

Describes Virginia's Master Technician Program, which offers a comprehensive coordinated curriculum in electronics/electromechanical technology that spans high school and community college levels of instruction. Highlights innovations of the project, curriculum design, advantages, and future projections. (DMM)

Describes the efforts of Northern Virginia Community College to develop articulation agreements for advanced placement with public school systems in nine jurisdictions. Explains the goals of the articulation project, the processes involved in developing the agreements, the use of Assessment by Local Examination as a qualifying exam, problems and…

Describes the 10-year process in which Hagerstown Junior College (HJC) (Maryland) underwent a transition from a passive institution to a proactive agent for community renewal. Indicates that HJC redefined its civic purpose and executed its agenda through community-based programming and the facilitation of community problem solving. Includes 15…

Offers a review of ERIC literature on facilitating transfer between community colleges and baccalaureate institutions, improving outcomes for minority students, creating partnerships to strengthen institutions, and improving quality. (DMM)

Uses the Los Angeles Partners Advocating Student Success, an interinstitutional educational reform effort, as a case study in collaboration. Discusses the role of the president, and contends that collaboration provides community colleges with new opportunities to promote access and enhance the educational success of underserved students by…

Asserts that state school reform policies increasingly emphasize student attainment of defined outcomes at each grade level and view colleges as part of the larger K-16 system. States that colleges must continue to monitor student flow from high schools, articulate curricula, and work with schools to promote student success. (Contains 32…

Examines ways in which Cerritos College (California) has worked with local high schools to develop a highly successful concurrent enrollment program. Points out that the college offers dual enrollment classes on its campus as well as on high school campuses as part of the effort to make the program mutually beneficial. (NB)

Recommends measures and criteria to be used by four-year colleges in admitting and advising different types of transfers from two-year colleges. Emphasizes the need for extensive information exchange between two- and four-year colleges so that assessment measures and criteria will be valid. (DC)

Offers a historical overview of ways of preparing high school students for college, including the Advanced Placement Examination, efforts to standardize college entrance requirements, the New York State Regents Exams, and the Upward Bound program. Assesses current trends and future directions with respect to relations between high schools and…

Examines programs designed to allow average students to pursue college-level studies in high school. Considers reasons that concurrent enrollment programs have traditionally excluded all but high-achieving students, and drawbacks of this policy. Describes three dual enrollment programs operating in New York City and reviews research on their…