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Direct linkAlfred, Richard L. – Community College Journal, 2004
Community colleges are experiencing tough times. As leaders watch the economy jump back to life and recognize this as a time of opportunity, they also realize that recovery in the public sector lags behind. Community colleges expecting to emerge from reduction stronger and better positioned will need to operate outside of a conventional business…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Higher Education, Community Colleges, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewedAlfred, Richard L.; Lum, Glen D. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1988
Presents the results of a study of the relationship between student academic achievement and compulsory and voluntary institutional remedial placement policies. Analyzes the characteristics and academic records of 6,117 students enrolled in remedial writing courses at 10 large metropolitan community colleges in the Midwest. (DMM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Community Colleges, Remedial Programs
Download full textLum, Glen; Alfred, Richard L. – 1987
The effects of student characteristics and remedial program placement policy on academic achievement and other outcomes were studied at 10 Michigan community colleges. The study population consisted of 3,448 students enrolled in remedial writing at colleges with a compulsory remedial placement policy and 2,669 students enrolled in remedial writing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropout Prevention
