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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Eddy, Pamela L. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2010
This chapter provides a portrait of faculty development in community colleges, highlighting different issues facing faculty based on location and including a review of the impact of socialization on how faculty approach their roles. The research reported in this chapter draws from two sources: data from a qualitative case study, which provides the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
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Eddy, Pamela L.; Cox, Elizabeth M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2008
This chapter provides a portrait of women's representation in the leadership ranks of community colleges. The study analyzed audiotaped and transcribed interviews with six women community college presidents. Each of the women had been leading her institution for less than five years; one participant was serving in her second presidency. Findings…
Descriptors: Females, Incidence, Leadership, Community Colleges
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Eddy, Pamela L.; Lester, Jaime – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2008
The chapters in this volume review a variety of issues regarding gender at community colleges. The context of higher education provides the backdrop for how community college leaders and campus members see the issues they face and how they begin to make meaning of their location and experiences on campus. There is a wide variety of circumstances…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Campuses, Strategic Planning, Futures (of Society)
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Eddy, Pamela L. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2007
This chapter describes results from a national study of community college faculty development programs. Findings highlight how the challenges faced by rural colleges differ from those at urban institutions, which often have dedicated faculty development centers.
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Rural Areas
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Eddy, Pamela L.; Murray, John P. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2007
This chapter reviews the strategies described in this volume that rural college leaders can use to address the issues and challenges their institutions face. (Contains a list of 12 resources and 4 online resources.)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Rural Urban Differences
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Amey, Marilyn J.; Eddy, Pamela L.; Ozaki, C. Casey – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2007
This chapter describes a model that can serve as a lens for examining community college partnerships with a host of organizational collaborators, the overall potential for achieving intended outcomes, sustainability, and partner benefits. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Eddy, Pamela L. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2007
Institutions partner for a variety of reasons (Russell and Flynn, 2000), but resource sharing often serves as a key motivating factor (Brumbach and Villadsen, 2002; Keener, Carrier, and Meaders, 2002). Such was the impetus for development of the Connected Campuses of Technology (CCT), a partnership among five colleges of technology. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Shared Resources and Services, Etiology