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Download full textJohnson, Charles N. – 1971
Tarrant County Junior College (TCJC) South Campus in Texas offers a special Basic Studies program for its high-risk students. The program courses are "college level," have transfer credit, and are positive in nature as opposed to the traditional compensatory, remedial approach. There is an in-depth discussion of: the Basic Studies…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educational Innovation, General Education
Tarrant County Junior Coll. District, Ft. Worth, TX. – 1972
The commitment at Tarrant County Junior College (TCJC, Texas) to meet the needs of all students, including marginal or high risk students, is reflected in their Basic Studies Program, described in this report. (See ED 049 761 for the 1970-71 report). The program integrates methods, materials, and curriculum for 36 semester hours of freshman…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educational Innovation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Johnson, Charles N.; And Others – 1970
This is a description and a progress report of the Basic Studies Program at Tarrant County Junior College (Texas), a 1-year program in general education designed for students who rank in the lower quarter of their junior college class and who have experienced little academic success in the past. Communications, humanities, social science, natural…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Environment, General Education, Low Achievement
Texas Coll. and Univ. System, Austin. Coordinating Board. – 1970
Ten community colleges in Texas sent participants to a faculty and administrators' conference, whose purpose was to discuss all points covering basic-studies programs and to see where consensus and differences of opinion existed among the people who actually operate those programs. This transcript of the conference covers the following topics: (1)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Conference Reports, Developmental Programs, Educational Testing
Griffith, Mary – 1986
In 1985, the Texas College Coordinating Board sponsored a series of regional articulation workshops designed to provide a forum for faculty representatives from both two- and four-year institutions to discuss their concerns regarding the academic preparation of transfer students. The workshops did not deal with the transfer of specific courses,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Higher Education
Texas State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. Div. of Community and Technical Colleges. – 2002
This report aims to address concerns regarding the need for developmental education in mathematics in the higher education institutions in Texas. Fifty-three million dollars of the $93 million appropriated for developmental education in Texas in 2002 went to mathematics. About 40% of new students in two-year colleges and 20% of new students in…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Costs, Labor Force Development
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
