As of October 1963, there were 102 associate degree programs in nursing, 82 of them in 2-year institutions. These 82 represented only 3 percent of the 704 junior colleges listed in the 1963 Junior College Directory. Surveys were conducted to discover the factors that led to or inhibited establishment of nursing programs. The volume of full-time…

This document states that many studies have identified faculty recruitment as a specific job responsibility of college department chairs. Because the recruitment process is time consuming and costly, the chair must also ensure that recruitment leads to retention. This paper closely examines what strategies academic chairs use to recruit and retain…

This document outlines Howard Community College's (HCC) six strategic initiatives and goals. Each of the strategic initiatives is presented, along with a context for the statement and a list of goals to be achieved in support of the overall initiative. First, HCC will be a learning community that provides possibilities for learning that address…

A senior foundation executive addresses a number of concerns about higher education's performance, including the low national college completion rate, decreasing minority enrollment, programs poorly designed for nontraditional students, cooperation with two-year and technical institutions, lagging minority faculty recruitment, and contributions to…

If an institution's goal is cultural diversity, the institutional response must go beyond a core curriculum that transmits culture or a multicultural curriculum which transforms culture, and embrace a curriculum which enhances individual differences. The core curriculum has an unabashed European cultural bias and requires assimilation to the…

In anticipation of teacher shortages in liberal arts disciplines, a study was conducted to investigate how community college administrators in the 19-state Council of North Central Community/Junior College Region planned to recruit faculty in general education disciplines over the next 5 years. In spring 1986, 353 community and junior college…

These guidelines for California's community colleges specify required elements of a staff diversity/affirmative action plan, recommend sound practices and activities that will maximize the likelihood of success, and provide information on, and required elements of, related issues such as sexual harassment, handicap discrimination, and AIDS in the…

The rapidly changing demographic profile of students at Cerritos College (CC) in Norwalk, California, presents a substantial challenge for the college as it seeks to simultaneously provide transfer education and job skills training, and to maintain comprehensiveness, quality, and access. A study was undertaken of the changing student population at…

The Minority Education Initiative (MEI) was developed and implemented at Mott Community College to support minority academic success. The initiative included student and faculty recruitment, multicultural enrichment, support services, and articulation with other educational institutions and businesses. Objectives of the MEI were to increase the…

While demographic diversity among the student body has increased substantially over the past several decades, the academic, economic, and social diversity of students will play a greater part in upcoming staffing and faculty requirements at community colleges. Data from Tallahassee Community College (TCC), in Florida, from 1980 to 1994 indicate…

This report addresses the issues of underrepresentation and equity involving women in Texas colleges and universities. These issues include the numbers of women administrators and faculty, salary and compensation differentials, recruitment and retention of women in faculty and administrative ranks, the climate for women in higher education, and…

Reports on a survey of Minnesota's African-American community college faculty concerning their own employment situations and the reasons why the recruitment and retention of African-American faculty have not been successful overall despite two decades of affirmative action. Looks at social and psychological barriers to increasing diversity, and…

Focusing on community college programs designed to achieve multicultural climates and minority student success, this monograph provides profiles from documents in the ERIC database of such programs established in the 1990s by individual colleges or developed in partnerships with community, business, or other educational institutions. Introductory…

Describes the "modus operandi" of Coastline Community College in Orange County (California), which serves as a model of a community-based institution. (Author/WD)

This affirmative action and staff diversity plan was developed to specify strategies and assign responsibility for increasing the number of qualified minorities, women, disabled, and members of other underrepresented groups who staff California's community colleges. Introductory comments explain the rationale behind the plan, indicating that…