A corporate perspective on the general education competencies expected of middle management and technical personnel is provided and responded to in these three papers. First, Rita Meyer presents results from a study conducted by West Virginia Northern Community College to obtain the views of corporate managers on the general education…

Describes a survey of 200 corporate employers regarding the proportion of the vocational curriculum that should be devoted to general education. Responding employers (51 percent) felt that general education should comprise approximately 30 percent of the vocational curriculum, and that communication, critical thinking, and employability skills…

A study evaluated Delta College's associate degree nursing program with results showing that there was no relationship between grade point averages, State Board Examination scores, and job performance of nursing graduates as rated by physicians and supervising nurses. Strengths and weaknesses identified in job performances were greatly influenced…

This study, the first of two parts, had two main purposes. The first was to obtain desirable subject matter for an instructional program in nondestructive testing through a survey of selected manufacturing and service companies in Texas, and the second was to determine the degree of emphasis that should be placed on each subject. Fifty-nine…

The 1998 Work Force Development Study focuses on Spartanburg Technical College's (STC's) (South Carolina) role in preparing new workers and training/retraining the current workforce. Surveys were mailed to employers in business and industry--the response rate was 10%. In addition, a series of focus groups, including various business, industry,…

This packet identifies and explains the questionnaires and coding used in DeVault VIII, a subsystem of the Texas Student Information System designed to generate data for local utilization and for fulfillment of the federally-mandated Vocational Education Data System (VEDS) student and employer follow-up requirements. The report first explains the…

Ocean County College conducted a feasibility study for the purpose of determining whether there was a need for a food service management program within its service area and to ascertain an estimate of the potential student pool for such a program. Surveys were sent to 243 restaurants and institutions and were administered to students from county…

In April 1981, a survey was conducted by Howard Community College (HCC) to gather information on the job performance of its 1980 occupational program graduates. Surveys were sent to the employers of consenting graduates who were working full-time in jobs related to their field of study at HCC, requesting information on the educational requirements…

In a survey of 374 career curriculum graduates of Montgomery Community College in 1976, 280 indicated they were working in jobs related to their college programs. Of these, 225 (80%) gave employer names and addresses and permission to contact them. Questionnaires drew responses of 159 employers to questions about skill levels of students, employee…

This document contains four issues from volume 9 (1999-2000) of the St. Petersburg Junior College (SPJC) Office of Institutional Research Research Brief. Number 1 (September 1999), "Comparison of Faculty Adjunct Salaries in Florida Community Colleges", contains 2 tables. Table 1 shows the top five community colleges in adjunct salaries…

In spring 1988, a survey was conducted of the employers of graduates of Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) to evaluate the occupational success of PVCC graduates and to determine how well academic programs prepare students for the work in various professions. On the graduate follow-up survey of the class of 1985-86, 85 graduates or 49.4%…

During the past decade vocational-technical education in Texas has grown so rapidly that now attention must be given to enrollments, employment projections, and more efficient utilization of the limited resources available. Cisco and Ranger Junior Colleges serve essentially the same population and a plan for close cooperation and coordination is…

A questionnaire was mailed to all members of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Bar Association in order to assess the need for trained legal assistants among practicing Montgomery County attorneys, and to elicit their opinions of functions legal assistants might perform and recommendations for coursework and other aspects of a legal assistant…

During the fall of 2001, the Office of Institutional Research at Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) surveyed employers of 1999-2000 graduates. The purpose of this survey was to evaluate employer satisfaction with the job performance and general skills of PVCC graduates, as well as assess the effectiveness of the college's academic…

The primary objective of this study was to ascertain from retail merchants the amount and type of formal college education desirable for optimum performance of typical mid-management retail positions, such as store manager, department manager, and buyer-merchandiser. The investigation also was concerned with any job stability differences between…