"Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges" is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to building a million-dollar-a-year development office. Community colleges educate nearly half the undergraduates in America yet receive as little as two percent of all gifts to higher education. Private philanthropy is now essential to the mission of community…

This publication provides an overview of U.S. Department of Education programs authorized and funded under federal law for fiscal year 2008. This reference guide also includes information on the laboratories, centers, and other facilities funded by the Department that provide important resources for education. Readers will find funding…

This paper provides an overview of U.S. Department of Education programs authorized and funded under federal law. It includes information as well on the laboratories, centers, and other facilities funded by the Department that provide important resources for education. Each entry, which gives a brief overview of a program or resource, is listed…

This paper provides an overview of U.S. Department of Education programs authorized and funded under federal law. It includes information as well on the laboratories, centers, and other facilities funded by the Department that provide important resources for education. Readers will find funding information, contact information, and a web site for…

This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. This manual provides administrators with an organized and logical discussion of the planning process, examples of effective practices, practical and useful ideas to improve planning practices, and criteria for effective planning which can be…

This paper examines current programs of reading/study skills instruction at two-year colleges. The paper is divided into three sections: a review of literature relating to the subject; analysis and evaluation of the research and programs surveyed; and implications for organizing and developing a reading improvement program. A bibliography is…

These descriptions of colleges and universities in the state of New Jersey are intended to answer questions regarding which institutions and programs might serve particular needs, plus giving the location, entrance requirements, and costs of those schools. Descriptions cover: (1) universities and technical colleges, (2) four-year independent…

This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. The purposes of this manual are to document specific recommendations for desirable management practices in each of the areas of computer services and to make available criteria and guidelines that can be used to evaluate institutional…

This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. Chapter I is introductory and discusses the role of program budgeting in higher education, its objectives, management, and development. Chapter II presents the steps to be taken in developing a program budget--identifying goals and objectives,…

This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. A chapter on organizing for personnel management discusses basic personnel functions, roles and responsibilities of administrators, and the need for a central statewide office of personnel affairs. A chapter on planning, policies, and…

This document presents the individual responses of 31 South Carolina senior colleges and universities to a questionnaire on transfer policies. Admissions, housing, and academic policies are covered, as well as policies specific to community college transfers. Intended as a reference tool for students, faculty, and counselors in two-year…

This curriculum guide prescribes an educational program for training nuclear medicine technologists. Following a brief section on program development, the curriculum is both outlined and presented in detail. For each of the 44 courses, the following information is given: (1) sequential placement of the course in the curriculum; (2) course…

The handbook, designed for use by career advisors and counselor aides working with disadvantaged students in regular Los Angeles Unified School District vocational programs, provides information for the classification of counselor aide (job definition, typical duties, and qualifications), guidelines for effective utilization of aides, and…

This assessment package was designed to facilitate the identification and appraisal of the learning resources and services that are provided to handicapped and other disadvantaged students at two-year colleges. The instrument helps evaluate services available to the following student populations: blind and partially sighted students; deaf and…

This report was designed to aid ongoing development of statewide planning and coordination for Ohio's complex two-year college system. The mission of this system is defined in terms of four areas: Access, Program, Stewardship of Resources, and Institution and the Community. The system is dedicated to the concept of open education with minimal cost…