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Download full textPapier, Sarah N. – 1990
To help new students clarify goals, understand the demands of college, and successfully adjust to college life, Queensborough Community College (QCC), in Bayside, New York, developed the "Introduction to College" program. The program combines a 4-week orientation seminar with a writing-accross-the-curriculum approach to help QCC's…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Cultural Pluralism
Peer reviewedJaski, Ernest B. – Community/Junior College Research Quarterly, 1978
Discusses research at Felician College which documents personality changes in the contemporary female, and especially in the married woman, who is found to be more achievement and politically oriented, with higher aspirations, seeking change, less deterred by failures, and more self-assertive. Implications for counseling staff are discussed.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Community Colleges, Educational Research, Females
Peer reviewedPulliams, Preston – Community College Review, 1977
Community colleges are providing an easily accessible educational opportunity for many black Americans; but because of low self-concepts and unmet orientation needs, many black students have difficulty surviving. Recommendations for improving this situation are made. (DC)
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Attitudes, Black Students, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedBeck, Marilyn C. – Community and Junior College Journal, 1980
Proposes human potential seminars on topics such as "study skills" or "library use" as alternatives to traditional freshman orientation courses. Examines the implementation of the seminars at Lurleen B. Wallace Junior College and discusses their effectiveness in improving the self-concept and retention of high-risk students.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, High Risk Students, Nontraditional Students, Open Enrollment
Ebersole, Tara – 2003
Recognizing the difficulties that first-time faculty face, the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) (Maryland) developed an extended orientation program for new faculty based on the principles of learning communities: shared knowledge, shared knowing, and shared responsibility. In 1998, CCBC committed to a 5-year strategy of becoming a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Discovery Learning
Giles, Gerald L. – 1995
Creative Values and Self-Image is a credit developmental studies course offered at Utah's Salt Lake Community College to help students assess their own values and self-image, learn and understand related theories and research, understand the relationship between their own values and self-image as they relate to goal setting, and apply the theories…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Developmental Studies Programs
Hall, Lincoln H. – 1968
Freshmen of lower and middle socioeconomic status identified by the W. Lloyd Warner Index of Status Characteristics were studied to determine: (1) differences in the motives, values, attitudes, goals, aspirations, self-concepts, and interests of these two groups; (2) if any of these factors distinguish between nonachievers (GPA below 2.0) of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, College Freshmen
