With nearly every industry predicting severe employee shortages, the available worker pipeline, including the employed, may need to upgrade their skills. In addition, the number of jobs available will soon exceed the number of available workers, even if all the workers were skilled. This study investigated the perceptions held by key individuals…

A corporate perspective on the general education competencies expected of middle management and technical personnel is provided and responded to in these three papers. First, Rita Meyer presents results from a study conducted by West Virginia Northern Community College to obtain the views of corporate managers on the general education…

The article discusses the results of a study conducted by the Department of Business Management at the Borough of Manhattan Community College on what kind of business education students the labor market wanted--specialists or generalists. The generalists were preferred. (BP)

Describes a survey of 200 corporate employers regarding the proportion of the vocational curriculum that should be devoted to general education. Responding employers (51 percent) felt that general education should comprise approximately 30 percent of the vocational curriculum, and that communication, critical thinking, and employability skills…

A study was conducted to determine the need for new occupational programs in the area served by the Community College of Decatur and to assess the need for existing and proposed occupational programs. Over a 5-month period, questionnaires were mailed to selected representatives from businesses, industries, personal and public services, and health…

A study evaluated Delta College's associate degree nursing program with results showing that there was no relationship between grade point averages, State Board Examination scores, and job performance of nursing graduates as rated by physicians and supervising nurses. Strengths and weaknesses identified in job performances were greatly influenced…

This packet identifies and explains the questionnaires and coding used in DeVault VIII, a subsystem of the Texas Student Information System designed to generate data for local utilization and for fulfillment of the federally-mandated Vocational Education Data System (VEDS) student and employer follow-up requirements. The report first explains the…

Ocean County College conducted a feasibility study for the purpose of determining whether there was a need for a food service management program within its service area and to ascertain an estimate of the potential student pool for such a program. Surveys were sent to 243 restaurants and institutions and were administered to students from county…

In April 1981, a survey was conducted by Howard Community College (HCC) to gather information on the job performance of its 1980 occupational program graduates. Surveys were sent to the employers of consenting graduates who were working full-time in jobs related to their field of study at HCC, requesting information on the educational requirements…

In a survey of 374 career curriculum graduates of Montgomery Community College in 1976, 280 indicated they were working in jobs related to their college programs. Of these, 225 (80%) gave employer names and addresses and permission to contact them. Questionnaires drew responses of 159 employers to questions about skill levels of students, employee…

This document contains four issues from volume 9 (1999-2000) of the St. Petersburg Junior College (SPJC) Office of Institutional Research Research Brief. Number 1 (September 1999), "Comparison of Faculty Adjunct Salaries in Florida Community Colleges", contains 2 tables. Table 1 shows the top five community colleges in adjunct salaries…

In spring 1988, a survey was conducted of the employers of graduates of Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) to evaluate the occupational success of PVCC graduates and to determine how well academic programs prepare students for the work in various professions. On the graduate follow-up survey of the class of 1985-86, 85 graduates or 49.4%…

A questionnaire was mailed to all members of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Bar Association in order to assess the need for trained legal assistants among practicing Montgomery County attorneys, and to elicit their opinions of functions legal assistants might perform and recommendations for coursework and other aspects of a legal assistant…

During the fall of 2001, the Office of Institutional Research at Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) surveyed employers of 1999-2000 graduates. The purpose of this survey was to evaluate employer satisfaction with the job performance and general skills of PVCC graduates, as well as assess the effectiveness of the college's academic…

The primary objective of this study was to ascertain from retail merchants the amount and type of formal college education desirable for optimum performance of typical mid-management retail positions, such as store manager, department manager, and buyer-merchandiser. The investigation also was concerned with any job stability differences between…