Provides citations and abstracts for seven ERIC documents describing high technology programs at community colleges and discussing the role of two-year colleges in meeting industry's demands for skilled employees in high tech fields. (DMM)

This report discusses the transfer rate of community college students with A.S. or A.A.S. degrees from vocational or "terminal" programs in Missouri. The study shows that during the 1995-1996 academic year, 6,171 students received an associate degree from a Missouri public two-year college. Of these, 3,169 (51%) earned the A.A. degree and 3,002…

Discusses joint efforts by the Junior College Journalism Association and the Association for Education in Journalism in setting program standards and transfer policy guidelines between two-year and four-year colleges. (RB)

The uncertain status of two-year college teacher preparation looms large in the calls for new degrees and new patterns of preparing faculty. Specific recommendations are made for preparing doctoral graduates to work in community and junior colleges. (LBH)

The median administrator salaries and percentage changes from the previous year are reported for 88 administrative functions in public and private institutions and in universities, four-year colleges, and two-year colleges. (MSE)

This 2001-2002 fact book for St. Petersburg College (SPC) in Florida provides statistical information to support planning and decision-making. It also offers a historical perspective of the institution. SPC was founded in 1927 as St. Petersburg Junior College, Florida's first two-year institution of higher learning. SPC has evolved from an…

Survey responses from 401 community colleges show that many of these two-year, open-admissions institutions have developed writing-across-the-curriculum programs that address the special needs of their faculty and students. (MSE)

Includes abstracts of documents in the ERIC junior-college collection that deal with the special programs or techniques used by two-year colleges to help students needing remedial or developmental work. (TP)

Drawing from interviews with nine two-year college presidents, provides responses to the question, "What do you think the critical issues for community, technical, and junior colleges will be in 1988?" (DMM)

Differences were studied in the job status, stability, and satisfaction of recent four-year college graduates with varying lengths of attendance at two-year institutions. The administrative and research implications of these results are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Examines the impact of collective bargaining on faculty compensation at two-year colleges over the period 1970 to 1981. Shows that faculty at unionized community colleges have not experienced significantly greater increases in compensation than their nonunionized counterparts. (DMM)

Presents a profile of humanities faculty in two-year colleges based on a national survey of 1,493 full- and part-time instructors in 156 colleges. (JDS)

Reviews the history of two-year colleges in Arkansas, discussing their beginnings in the late 1800s, enabling legislation as public junior colleges in the 1960s, expansion in the 1970s, and major changes in the 1990s. Describes current issues of concern, such as institutional mergers, local college governance structures, and state funding. (AJL)

This paper investigated the prospective predictors of mental health after breast cancer diagnosis among mid-aged Australian women (initially aged 45-50 years). Two waves of data collected 2 years apart from a longitudinal population-based survey of 12,177 women identified a group of 63 women who reported onset of BC between T1 (T1) and Time 2…

This paper explores the ways in which community colleges in the United States are financed. It offers a historical overview of community college financing in the U.S., arguing that from their inception, they have operated on the premise of providing wide access to higher education through public funding at little or no cost to students. The paper…