When the 10 members of the American Association of Community College's (AACC's) 21st-Century Implementation Team 7 (nine of whom are community college presidents) sat down in 2013 to talk about reforming institutional roles and functions at the nation's two-year career and technical colleges, everyone in the room knew the work before them would be…

An interview with Seymour Eskow.

Part-time faculty members at community colleges are customarily understood from an institutional perspective that is based on traditional conceptions of the community college as a component of a tiered educational system. This conception places the community college in the role of either a junior college or a training school. However, the…

This report was produced by a committee appointed by the Council for Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture (Israel) to perform the following three major tasks: (1) review all facets of post-secondary education excluding university activities; (2) suggest principles on which to base the development of post-secondary education;…

Analyzes reference books which reflect differences in the curriculum and presentation of course offerings in the City Colleges of Chicago, Illinois. Shows how institutions, sometimes unwittingly, help to maintain inequities in educational opportunities. (Author/MK)

Junior college self-appraisal techniques should involve research and should be conducted within the academic, vocational, and adult education programs of the college. This report considers appraisal of specific areas, such as admissions, counseling and student personnel services, placement in classes, and program planning and evaluation. Sixteen…

Community development is defined and discussed in terms of its relationship to college extension and community service functions, the minimum requirements for a college-based effort, and a proposed role for colleges and universities. (RN)

Author raises some of the issues, problems, and enigmas relating to the disturbing conditions he finds existing in English departments in two-year colleges and offers some suggestions for ameliorating these difficulties. (Author/MB)

This interview with David Pierce, the President of the American Association of Community Colleges, addresses a series of questions related to institutional citizenship. Topics include: what institutional citizenship means; colleges can be effective institutional citizens; whether extra money or staff are required; and why it is important and what…

In this report measurable institutional objectives recommended by the faculty, students serving on faculty committees, and the administrative staff of Mt. San Jacinto College (California) are presented. The objectives are based on discussions with members of the Board of Trustees, advisory committees, community groups such as the Patrons…

This report represents the third year that faculty committees and the administrative staff have recommended a set of measurable institutional objectives to the Board of Trustees of Mt. San Jacinto College (California). The authors feel that these objectives are more comprehensive and challenging than those presented the previous year (see JC 720…

This paper focuses on high-risk students and the challenge they present to the community college. The goals of the community college are analyzed and the problems encountered in reaching those goals are discussed. A summary of two workshops held in Chicago entitled "Long Range Results-Academic Supports for the Collegiate Black and Poor," and…

In April 2000, the Community College Leadership Development Initiative (CCLDI) and the Claremont Graduate University (CGU) in California entered into a landmark partnership to improve the leadership of the community colleges. This partnership is notable for several reasons: it envisions a multifaceted, long-term effort to improve community college…

Asserts that educators who advocate lifelong learning too often support a narrow and arbitrary system of nomenclature, which implies that learning and thus education are terminal concepts. The need for administrative structure and socially recognized reward has plagued educators, and their clients, with learning near-sightedness. The question…