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Download full textYoung, Kristine M. – 2002
According to 1995 data collected by the National Center for Educational Statistics, first-year students at public community colleges were twice as likely to be enrolled in a remedial education course than their public four-year counterparts. Ninety-five percent of community colleges offer remedial instruction, yet critics of the community college…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs
Nussbaum, Thomas J. – 1999
This speech by Chancellor Thomas J. Nussbaum deals with the state of California Community Colleges. The document begins by noting successes in three main areas: restoring access, improving funding per student, and improving the performance of California's community colleges. Between fall 1995 and fall 1999, California's community colleges…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Accountability, Basic Skills
Hirose-Wong, Shannon M. – 1999
This digest, drawn from a larger study, looks at six community colleges and community college systems in regard to how they are attempting to serve their urban communities. The author defines urban community colleges as being in or close to major cities, and serving large numbers of economically and educationally disadvantaged students from…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Basic Skills, Citizenship, Community Colleges
Melendez, Edwin; Suarez, Carlos – 2001
This paper describes the Essential Skills Program at the Community College of Denver (CCD), which functions as an education broker and a labor market intermediary that coordinates the services offered by CCD with the needs of a number of Department of Social Service clients. The Essential Skills Program (ESP) supplements the services offered by…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Daily Living Skills
North Carolina Community Coll. System, Raleigh. – 1999
In 1989, the North Carolina General Assembly adopted a provision that mandated that the State Board of Community Colleges develop definable statewide measures of accountability. In 1993 the General Assembly passed a special provision on accountability. An Accountability Task Force was appointed and charged with development of institutional…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, College Outcomes Assessment, College Role
Florida State Board of Community Colleges, Tallahassee. – 1996
This report presents results from the Florida State Board of Community Colleges' review of Criminal Justice programs. A preface indicates that concerns related to crime in the state provided the impetus for the review and that it focused on issues related to curricula, funding and costs, labor demand and employment requirements, and labor supply.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation
New York City Technical Coll., Brooklyn. – 1995
In fall 1994, New York City Technical College established the Developmental Education Task Force to review the current state of developmental education (DE) at the college and recommend policy and program changes. The Task Force gathered quantitative data from analyses of DE enrollment trends, student characteristics, and graduation rates, as well…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, College Preparation, Community Colleges
Little Hoop Community Coll., Fort Totten, ND. – 1995
With funding from a National Workplace Literacy grant, Little Hoop Community College in Fort Totten, North Dakota, conducted a combined literacy and career counseling program for members of the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe. During the project period, 86 participants completed individual education plans appropriate to their personal work objectives and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, American Indian Education, Basic Skills, Career Counseling
Anandam, Kamala; And Others – 1991
Miami-Dade Community College's (MDCC's) implementation and assessment of computer software as a part of Project SYNERGY, a multi-institutional project funded by the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation designed to seek technological solutions for helping students underprepared in reading, writing and mathematics, is described in this…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Writing, Case Studies, Community Colleges
Krider, Charles E.; And Others – 1991
This report considers the basic skills levels of adults in Kansas, the provision of basic skills training by public and private agencies, and policy options for improving the basic skills of Kansas's workforce. Following a detailed executive report, chapter 1 reviews the workforce challenge, economic and technological changes, and shifts in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, College Role
Lessard, Richard – 1993
For the past 4 years, Alpena Community College (ACC) in Michigan has been involved in the Workplace Partnership Project (WPP), a federally funded program which brings basic skills classes into the worksite to help upgrade employees' math, reading, writing, problem-solving, and science knowledge. The college works with partner companies to help…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Employer Employee Relationship
Roueche, John E. – 1984
By the late 1960s, the most offered courses in American community colleges were remedial reading, remedial writing, and remedial arithmetic. The success of the early efforts in community colleges was marginal at best, as is evidenced by a 1968 study indicating that nearly 90 percent of all remedial students failed or dropped out of remedial…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
Angel, Dan – Capsule, 1990
The Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) is a statewide program designed to ensure that all students attending public colleges and universities have the basic reading, mathematics, and writing skills necessary to perform effectively at the college level. All entering first-time freshmen are required to take the TASP test, which has a basic skills…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Testing, Graduation Requirements
Morris, Cathy; Belcher, Marcia J. – 1990
In 1990, a study was conducted at Florida's Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) to identify institutional factors that predict pass rates on the College-Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST). Statewide results of the October 1989 administration of the CLAST were used for the study, including the scores of all students who indicated that they had…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Enrollment Trends
Michels, L. – 1986
This descriptive report focuses on Milwaukee Area Technical College's Crossover Program, which was designed to help students who have demonstrated a low level of academic preparedness on their admissions placement test to improve their basic academic skills and choose a realistic program of study. The first sections of the report describe the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
