In September of 1986, a joint articulation conference was held between the Open Campus of Valencia Community College (VCC) and the University of Central Florida (UCF). The conference brought together administrators, faculty, and staff from the two colleges to review current areas of cooperation, examine common concerns, and explore new…

Discusses the genesis and evolution of the California legislative mandate to teach critical thinking in every community college classroom. Defines critical thinking. Reviews steps included in the California colleges' plans for curriculum development. Considers pedagogical, affective, and transfer implications. Briefly describes two college…

This guide is intended to assist tech prep consortia/councils and high schools throughout Wisconsin in developing tech prep career maps. In the first section, a tech prep career map is defined as a counseling resource that presents a recommended sequence of specific courses and experiences designed to enable high school students to develop written…

A project was conducted in Texas to establish a statewide articulated network of manufacturing engineering technology education at the community college and technical college level and to articulate that network upward with the appropriate four-year bachelor's degree programs in the state. The participants included 4 Texas State Technical College…

This handbook is designed to assist area vocational-technical schools and community colleges in their efforts to provide a sequence of continuity for students who choose to continue their education in a similar occupational field. Although originally developed for the field of electronics, the guide is generic in the sense that it will work for…

This resource guide/workbook is designed to show how to form and operate a tech prep/associate degree (TPAD) consortium. It contains 20 activity-oriented units that can be used by the planning teams to put the consortium together and get it running. Each unit may contain descriptive material (or scenarios), guidelines, resources, suggestions,…

Student educational outcomes and the quality of instruction are now being monitored by several programs at Worthington Community College (WCC) in southwest Minnesota. WCC, one of the 20 community colleges in the Minnesota Community College system, currently serves 875 students, and has been intensifying its efforts to serve the whole service area…

Nassau Community College (NCC) is currently working with a program evaluation model in which faculty from one department serve as peer evaluation consultants to direct the self-evaluations of other departments. The four functional objectives initially motivating the development of NCC's plan directed that: real decisions about academic programs…

A study was conducted at Dundalk Community College (DCC) to identify and prioritize basic campus goals. The Community College Goals Inventory (CCGI), which focuses on 20 goal areas and the extent to which they are and ought to be carried out, was supplemented with items related to 20 local goal areas. The survey was distributed to all 28 college…

Materials developed by the Alabama community, junior, and technical colleges as part of a state-funded professional development effort are presented. The first sections provide information on Alabama's systemwide professional development activities; the organization and characteristics of the community, junior, and technical college system;…

DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) is an approach to curriculum development that can also be used as a method of curriculum evaluation. To implement the DACUM process, a group of resource persons from the community works together to define the competencies or skills that are essential to a vocation. The result of the analysis is organized into a…

Biotechnology is the name given to a group of technologies that use organisms to make or modify various products or to provide services. Emphasis by companies in the biotechnology field has been on research; therefore, they have preferred to employ four-year college graduates or graduate-degreed persons. Now, however, emphasis is shifting from…

This handbook is designed to help Texas junior/community college administrators and instructor-coordinators of marketing and distributive education to plan, implement, operate, and expand mid-management programs. The handbook contains five sections. Following the introductory first section that reviews the purpose, history, philosophy, and…

Designed as a resource and aid for faculty and administrators at Modesto Junior College (MJC), this report provides an assessment of the external environment of the college and of its mission and goals. Section I introduces the futurist perspective and assumptions serving as the basis for the report. Section II provides a summary of an extensive…

Designed to assist community college instructors in the development of objectives for a course or program, this guidebook applies Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy to the process of writing objectives. First, a short preface underscores the importance of instructional objectives in the design and delivery of education. Next, part I provides a pre-test on…