Describes a project to develop a model taxonomy of exemplary international education (IE) operations from the literature and apply it to 65 Texas community colleges to determine the extent that they provide IE. Indicates that the model practices existed in few of the colleges, with only three colleges having all of the components. (31 citations)…

Describes a study of 15 faculty and 81 students regarding their attitudes toward the use of interactive videodisc technology, highlighting faculty perceptions of the technology, level of student interest in instructional strategies, and reaction to humanities applications. Indicates that faculty responded well to the technology and students highly…

Describes efforts of Florence-Darlington Technical College (South Carolina) to improve academic programs through the development and implementation of computer-assisted instruction (CAI). Includes results from a study investigating four variables of student performance in CAI and traditional lecture sections for five courses. Reports mixed results…

Describes a 1993 study examining retrenchment policies at Texas community colleges and their relation to fluctuations in enrollment and state funding. Indicates that 41% of Texas's community colleges had retrenchment policies and that administrative decisions regarding the adoption of retrenchment policies were based on state revenue declines…

Describes a comprehensive study of faculty development programs in Ohio two-year colleges conducted to determine the existence of programs and the relationship between development and reward structures. Indicates that no college in the study had a formalized, structured faculty development program. Suggests that faculty development appears to be a…

Examines the history of community colleges to determine the validity of claims that the inclusion of vocational and technical instruction is a recent phenomenon that damages the colleges' arts and humanities components. Argues that the idea of vocational education exists in the earliest documents of the community college movement. (17 citations)…

Describes a study of the perceptions of developmental educators and counselors regarding current level of knowledge and procedures for working with students with learning disabilities in community colleges. Reports differences in training, with 31% of the educators and only 6% of the counselors having taken special education courses. Discusses…

Describes the comprehensive approach to general education at Illinois' Black Hawk College, highlighting the program's rationale and history. Indicates that the college used a DACUM (Design A Curriculum) process to clearly identify the desired outcomes of general education for all degree graduates. Includes topics for further research. (MAB)

Describes the general education program adopted by New York's Broome Community College after eight years of debate and a full campus vote. Indicates that the program includes a core of academic requirements and incorporates communication, civic, global, critical thinking, moral, mathematical, scientific, technological, and health education…

Describes the design, implementation, and assessment of the general education program at Bunker Hill Community College, in Boston, Massachusetts. Indicates that the program is designed to serve as an academic commons where students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds can come together and share common intellectual experiences. (MAB)

Describes difficulties faced by faculty and administrators at Kentucky's Jefferson Community College in implementing the college's general education program. Highlights issues related to ensuring teaching competency, assessing the program's effects, and maintaining a balance between fidelity to the ideas of general education and accountability for…

Reviews the Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) general education program, focusing on the program's specific applications at MDCC's Wolfson Campus. Indicates that general education at the Campus involves education in environmental issues, social studies, humanities, multicultural awareness, the cultivation of individual responsibility, and…

Describes the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC), a statewide agenda for improving student transfer that inspired general education reform. Reviews the Minnesota Community College System, elements of the statewide reform movement, key principles of the MNTC and issues related to its implementation, and future challenges to education reform in…

Addresses the institutional context, goals, philosophy, external constraints, and assessment implications of the general education program at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Indicates that establishing faculty ownership of the program, anticipating faculty turf battles, making larger external connections, and appropriately restructuring the…

Discusses the general education core at Washington State's Shoreline Community College, which includes integrated studies courses and learning communities. Indicates that the college has established general education outcomes that guide the design of a coherent core of study for both academic transfer and vocational students. (MAB)