Describes a nationwide study of the percentage of minority faculty employed full-time at community colleges and strategies used to recruit them. Suggests that successful strategies include placing minorities on the board of trustees, recruiting from industry, and hiring minority faculty as chief academic administrators and ethnic studies…

Describes trends in two-year college faculty retirement. Argues that colleges can help new faculty members play active roles in realizing college mission by making them feel more a part of the college, increasing mentoring efforts, establishing ongoing professional development activities, decentralizing organizational culture, and recognizing the…

Presents the findings of a national study designed to determine if large-scale turnover is likely to occur among community college faculty members in the near future. Examines factors affecting faculty members' retirement decisions, the impact and prevalence of early and phased retirement programs, and the steps taken by institutions to prepare…

In response to the small number of minority faculty at Kansas City Kansas Community College (KCKCC), a study was conducted to develop a set of recommendations to improve minority faculty hiring procedures and provide information and guidelines useful to administrative staff for recruiting minority faculty members. Criteria for establishing policy…

Designed for governing boards, search committee members, and aspiring community college presidents, this booklet examines different institutional procedures involved in the search for and selection of a community college president, and outlines relevant problems and issues that should be considered at various phases of the process. After…

Analysis of employment patterns at State colleges and universities in Kentucky shows that the percentage and number of black faculty declined from 1979 to 1981. Most of the traditionally white State universities continued in 1981 to have overwhelmingly white faculties. Blacks comprised 2.8 percent of the faculty across the State, and only 2.0…

This report details the response of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to Assembly Concurrent Resolution (ACR) Number 39 (Hayden), known as "Incentives for Improving Undergraduate Teaching." Part 1 provides the background and recent history of community college faculty development. Part 2 describes the current faculty…

This document describes a potential crisis at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) due to the large numbers of faculty who are approaching or have already reached retirement age. NVCC is the third largest community college in the nation, made up of five campuses, soon to be six, and an Extended Learning Institute for distance learning. NVCC…

The Teaching/Learning Project (TLP) begun in Florida at Miami-Dade Community College in 1986, employs courses, orientation sessions, and mentors for new faculty at the college to help ensure instructional quality. In February 1993, a study was conducted to assess the first year experiences of new faculty and to evaluate the effectiveness of the…

This action plan for Centralia College in Washington attempts to establish achievable goals, measurable objectives, and appropriate timelines to improve the participation and success of people of color at the college, as both students and staff. Introductory material explains the state mandate for colleges to develop action plans, the way in with…

In 1992, a study was conducted to provide current institutional data on the number and percentage of underrepresented minorities among full-time faculty in two-year colleges; to examine the opinions of academic administrators about a number of barriers to minority faculty recruitment; to examine institutional efforts to recruit minority faculty;…

This report presents background on community college development and discusses four areas of concern. The first area is maintaining access for all students. Trends are toward tightening criteria for attendance. Colleges in some states will be forced to make clearer distinctions among the student groups they serve and for whom they expect to…

THE ATTEMPT TO FULFILL OBLIGATIONS TO AN INCREASING NUMBER OF STUDENTS IS A PRIMARY FRUSTRATION OF MANY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CHAIRMEN IN TWO-YEAR COLLEGES IN CALIFORNIA. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SIZE AND GROWTH OF THE TWO-YEAR COLLEGE IN CALIFORNIA IS FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION OF THE CONDITIONS AT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO. THE NATURE OF THE…

Community colleges are faced with the need to hire not only more new faculty, but also a more diverse faculty. Although community colleges have a disproportionately large number of minority students, the numbers of minority faculty are low. Because state and federal affirmative action programs are under increasing attack, community college…

This study examined staffing patterns, staff salaries, and credit enrollments in the Wyoming Community College System. Data for this study were derived from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS) Fall 1993, 1995, and 1997 Staff Surveys compiled by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). Surveys were conducted in…