In January 1976, Glendale Community College (Arizona) opened a satellite campus in Sun City, a retirement community. This article reports on the methods used to establish this campus and on the kinds of courses offered. (DC)

Discusses a successful program for older adults at the Community College of Baltimore which provides free seminars on campus and at locations throughout the city, and such services as counseling, recreational facilities, cultural events, and transportation. In addition, the college has recently begun to offer a two-year curriculum in gerontology.…

Reports on the community spirit manifested by the students, faculty, and administrators of Kuskokwim Community College (Alaska) to keep the college operating when the town generator burned down in mid-winter. (DC)

Reports on the success of a community college demonstration project focusing on young probationers and designed to show that community colleges are uniquely suited to assist criminal offenders in learning to lead productive lives. (DC)

Reports on Cuyohoga Community College's Emergency Medical Technician program which trains ambulance drivers and other emergency medical personnel and which has helped to make Cleveland's emergency medical service into a national model. (DC)

Reports on the outreach program developed at Cerro Coso Community College, which has a service area of 5,000 square miles. This college opened in 1973 and now has a main campus and seven outreach centers. Long-range plans call for connecting all outreach centers by microwave television relay. (DC)

Describes the effectiveness of telecourses in adult outreach efforts and the contribution of community colleges in developing this medium, based on conclusions reached at the first meeting of the AACJC Task Force on the Uses of Mass Media for Learning. (RT)

After citing the new acceptance of telecourses and the potential of public television for reaching the masses, the following factors are discussed: student attitudes, academic effectiveness, flexibility of usage of television and printed materials, diversity in the learning experience, cost effectiveness, and the opportunity for faculty and…

Discusses the instructional strategies used in a course on television as a popular art form, in which students use their regular television viewing to develop a critical awareness, learning tools and techniques for analyzing dramatic form and content. (RT)

The results of telecourse offerings in the Dallas County Community College District include increased enrollment and heightened interest in the humanities and other fields, without threatening faculty job security. Methods of recruiting adults for telecourse offerings are described. (RT)

Miami-Dade Community College has developed a computer-based instructional management system called Response System with Variable Prescriptions (RSVP) that is faculty programmed and can cater to any mode of instruction. Uses include prescriptive reading instruction, mathematics instruction, speech instruction, feedback on composition errors, and…

Due to the 1979 activation of the Public Television Satellite System and 1980 launch of Syncom IV, college course programming will no longer have to compete for time on PBS stations, and television study will be within the budget of almost any post-secondary institution. (RT)

Anne Arundel Community College uses the Chesapeake Bay for a flexible ocean engineering technology program which includes mechanical, electrical, and environmental options for transfer and/or vocational students, and adult education programs covering such subjects as sailing, Bay history, boat building, scuba-diving, and marine biology. (RT)

Summarizes the discussion of a conference of community college presidents and humanities chairpersons on attracting the mature adult to humanities courses, and lists recommendations covering curriculum, outreach, and program and staff development. (RT)

Open education, in which the institution takes instruction to the student, is described through the example of the Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College. Use of written materials, audio-cassette courses, radio, and television courses are discussed. (RT)