Reports preliminary findings of a study conducted by the Center for Women's Opportunities at AACJC for determining the status of women in non-traditional occupational education in community colleges. (JG)

A retrospective look at how severe budget reduction during the last two years affected New York City Community College, and at the difficult decisions made and issues considered in retrenchment of services and staff. (JG)

Reviews the initiation of child care services at Northern Virginia Community College and concludes that both the college and the community have come to recognize this service as an essential and integral part of the programs and services provided by the college. (JG)

A survey of 1,054 institutions by the AACJC Service Center for Community College-Labor Union Cooperation concluded that while substantial joint undertakings exist between unions and community colleges, in many cases labor and community colleges are waiting for the other party to make the first move. (JG)

Describes El Camino College's Learning Assistance Center, which utilizes a personal, cost-effective, and technological approach to meet the needs of nontraditional students through drop-in services, individualized instruction and small group instruction. (JG)

Librarians at Onondaga Community College (New York) view their function in the education process as librarian-teachers who instruct students in the access routes to information, and who enrich and augment the course curriculum while encouraging life-long habits of inquiry. (JG)

Reviews the history of St. Petersburg Junior College from its founding as a private nonprofit two-year college in 1927, through its expansion into a multi-campus public institution, and briefly cites some of the college's achievements. (JG)

Individualized, personalized, self-paced and computer assisted instruction at the English multimedia laboratory of San Antonio College (Texas) provides effective instruction in basic language skills for college freshmen who lack competence in this area. (JG)

Western Piedmont Community College adopted the concept of a people-oriented Learning Resources Center with services offered to the entire college community through a learning laboratory, audiovisual center and library. (JG)

The results of the AACJC Center for Community Education survey of 1,275 two year institutions to measure community education/community services are reported, focusing on the nature of the respondents to the survey, cooperation with other agencies, and the nature of community education programs and staff. (JG)

Describes possible implementation efforts in international education by community colleges, emphasizing faculty and student exchanges between Canadian community colleges and the AACJC International/Intercultural Consortium and citing Brevard Community College (Florida) and Malaspina College (British Columbia) as an example of such an exchange…

Serving five counties, John Wood Community College (Quincy, Illinois) operates on a contractual common market approach to community college education through the use of existing colleges and proprietary schools in Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa that provide instruction and selected support services to district residents. (JG)

Emphasis on consumerism in higher education as manifest through new federal rules and regulations and the tightening of existing ones is a source of new pressure for the community college. Consumerism provides a focal point around which reforms can take place; appropriate steps can be taken by community colleges to interact positively with this…

Describes Odessa College's adult basic education program which served over 2,500 adults in 17 Texas cities during 1975-76. Essential ingredients contributing to the success of the program are described. (JDS)

Describes an orderly, five-step process developed by Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) for securing permissions to use copyrighted materials in the production of instructional materials. Also reviews the major provisions of the current copyright law and lists sources of further copyright information. (JDS)