Planning ahead, practicing your response for various scenarios, being open and honest, showing empathy and respect for other peoples' perspectives and assuring stakeholders that you have the situation covered are the foundations of communicating successfully during a crisis, experts say. This article provides strategies for Community College…

This report discusses the establishment of the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST), a collaborative effort between Carteret Community College (CCC) (North Carolina) and North Carolina State University (NCSU). The CMAST project began as a concept in 1992, when NCSU officials and science faculty saw the need for a coastal facility to…

This speech reviews past articulation efforts on the national level, comments on present articulation efforts, and looks ahead to new forces which will probably affect articulation. Past and present efforts discussed included the Knoell-Medsker study, which generated articulation guidelines, Kintzer's "Nationwide Pilot Study on Articulation," and…

Article reports on the fifth annual convention of the national Junior College Journalism Association that took place at the fifty-fifth annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism at Southern Illinois University in August 1972. (GB)

Article provided additional resources on state coordination, supplied by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges. (Editor)

There are several practices that, once implemented by state governing or coordinating agencies, would provide effective and efficient coordination of any state community college system. These include the organization of a series of councils made up of institutional representatives by function, the development of individual college master plans,…

This paper discusses fostering a sense of unity across multiple campuses of a community college. It defines multi-campus community colleges (M3C) as a community college district composed of more than one site where learning is to take place. Unity is considered the state at which the students, faculty, and staff on the various college campuses and…

This article reviews research conducted by Marvin W. Weiss on the cooperation of community colleges and community schools and lists the potential areas of cooperation he identified. In light of the present economic situation, it is essential that these two significant educational enterprises work together to improve the quality of life for their…

The Auraria Higher Education Center in Denver will unite a community college, a state college, and a university branch at a single site. The Center will have an open admission policy, integrating students on all social and economic levels, and will integrate occupational and transfer-oriented education. (NHM)

A history of radio and television community college education in Florida is given, beginning with pioneering efforts by individual colleges, and concluding with the organization of a statewide consortium which divides the state into six regions, determined by the broadcast ranges of particular educational television stations. (NHM)

This document includes the statewide summary and community college district reports on community college classes offered in conjunction with high schools in Arizona. With the approval of the District Governing Board, courses may be offered by community colleges in conjunction with high schools for the purpose of offering community college…

This digest is drawn from "The Role of the Community College in Teacher Education" (New Directions for Community Colleges, Spring 2003). It examines trends in teacher education in the community colleges, including building partnerships and articulation agreements with baccalaureate-granting institutions, designing new associate degree…

Assesses the role of community colleges in enhancing international communication and understanding through educational cooperation. Urges the involvement of all American postsecondary institutions, and encourages the construction of linkages between American institutions and foreign universities and colleges. Underscores the need for appropriate…

Examines the outcomes of dual enrollment as a means of acceleration in the Community College System and the State University System in Florida. Concludes that such programs are effective only if students are able to successfully progress to a subsequent course in series of courses. (NB)

Describes a project designed to explore, define and assess the capability of four-year colleges to work cooperatively with the community colleges in the planning and development of allied health programs. (DC)