Argues that virtual reality provides new ways to engage students in literature classes, particularly in the creation of virtual spaces from fiction. (TB)

A literature search and review was conducted by the Two-Year College Student Development Research Committee of the American College Personnel Association to investigate the overall character of typical research on two-year college student development concerns. The student development research conducted at the two-year college level contrasted…

This study examined the relationship between enrollment in learning communities and students' self-reported learning outcomes at 13 community colleges. Students included in the analysis were enrolled in either (a) learning communities that included at least one developmental class or (b) stand-alone developmental courses. Comparisons were made…

This is a corpus-based research focusing on the high-frequency verb "keep" used by Chinese non-English majors and native speakers. The corpora involved in the paper are Brown which stands for native speakers, Students 3 and Students 4 in CLEC (Chinese Learner English Corpus) which stand for Chinese non-English majors. The paper tries to…

Reviews the roots of current two-year college personnel administration practices in secondary education and compares practices in higher education and business/industry. Assesses management issues related to part-time faculty, nontraditional students, faculty satisfaction, the quality-of-worklife movement, and anticipated faculty shortages.…

Along with a range of other neoliberal managerial incursions into education, the bureaucratisation of teachers' work has included the development of Professional Standards that regulate the profession and purport to improve teacher quality. This paper begins by contrasting two alternative approaches to standards in Australia, the new, centrally…

Using an ecology of language framework, the purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which English as a medium of instruction (EMI) at a private university in eastern Ukraine allows for the use of Ukrainian, the state language, or Russian, the predominantly spoken language, in large cities in eastern Ukraine. Uses of English and Russian…

A collection of papers presented and summaries of discussion groups of a conference on community/junior colleges is presented. Contents are a preface, welcome, three papers, recommendations from work groups, a conference summary, and a list of participants. The papers are as follows: "Nature of the Two-Year College Program and Implications for…

The California Community Colleges State Chancellor's Office released two reports,"The Effectiveness of California Community Colleges on Selected Performance Indicators" and "The Partnership for Excellence Fact Book," summarizing community college performance on a series of institutional performance indicators. This document relates the performance…

Factors influencing student performance (economics background, major field, sex, age, precourse grade expectations, mathematics background), student attitudes toward economics, and the instructor's background and experience were all considered in this report on the effectiveness of economics instruction in two-year colleges. (JB)

This document presents data tables detailing certificates awarded by public and private colleges and universities in Oregon for the academic year 1994-95. The report includes certificates awarded for less than one year, one year to two years, three to four years, and post-baccalaureate and post-master levels. Data are based on the Integrated…

President Harry Truman established the first Commission on Higher Education, which was farsighted in recognizing the vital role of two-year colleges in American higher education. The community college sector has accomplished much toward achieving the Commission's goal of access to higher education, as illustrated by efforts of professional…

This paper investigates the extent to which productive use of formulaic sequences by intermediate students of two typologically different languages, i.e., English and Spanish, is associated with their oral proficiency in these languages. Previous research (e.g., Boers et al., "Language Teaching Research" 10: 245-261, 2006) has shown that…

This study was designed to identify the factors significantly influencing the current compensation received by male graduates of two-year-college business and engineering/technology programs. Using stepwise multiple regression, the importance of including employer and job attributes, as well as personal characteristics, in the examination of…

Xavier College opened its doors in 1995 to cater to students who lived in the outer suburbs and semi-rural areas of Adelaide, Australia. Classes of 32 students contained those who could read fluently and those who could barely write their names. A curriculum pattern was established for a 2-year program in which students would be expected to…