Having found an objective merit system to be very unwieldy and a subjective merit system threatening to individuals, the faculty and administration at Morgan Community College, through joint effort, developed an Opportunity/Incentive Grant (OIG) program. While this policy is very much like other innovative grant systems, it also includes elements…

Reading instruction for the college student learning a second language should begin by establishing symbol-sound-meaning association. The step from speech to reading could best be made at the structural level. The emphasis at this point should be on sentence structure and the student should be taught to develop the ability to interpret the…

A variation of the classical birthday problem is considered. A BASIC program is included in the article. (DT)

This document, which is intended for use by community and junior colleges throughout Mississippi, contains curriculum frameworks for the course sequences in the banking and finance technology program. Presented in the introduction are a program description and suggested course sequence. Section I is a curriculum guide consisting of outlines for…

This report provides information on degree and certificate programs offered and student program completions for fiscal year 2000-2001 in North Dakota's public and private postsecondary educational institutions. Institutions programs are coded in accordance with the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code system of the National Center…

The University of Southwestern Louisiana offers an English major in technical writing. Many assignments and topics are covered in the junior technical writing course, but one of the most effective projects combines the students' and the professor's expertise and focuses on writing for a specific audience. The technical writer's job is to know how…

This book is about teacher-leaders who work in schools, universities, district and county offices, and other educational institutions and who serve as consultants, mentors, principals, project leaders, and teacher educators. The professional model of teaching emphasizes the role of teachers as informed, responsible decision makers, grounded in the…

Studies of the relationship of counselors' dress to clients' evaluations of counselors have been based on the assumption that the formal/informal nature of clothing is the essential dimension for assessing the meaning of counselor attire. Caucasian (N=226) and Sioux Indian (N=155) high school students and 193 Caucasian community college students…

TO GATHER INFORMATION FOR EVALUATION OF THE ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAM, THE CLASSES GRADUATING IN 1959 AND 1960 FROM CALIFORNIA JUNIOR COLLEGES WERE STUDIED BY QUESTIONNAIRE. OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THESE CLASSES, 43 PERCENT HAD OTHER EDUCATION BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL, AND 14 PERCENT HAD SOME PREVIOUS TRAINING, BUT 86 PERCENT FELT THIS PROGRAM…

Community colleges have the hardware for using nonprint media, but fear of using the hardware prevents the implementation of media-oriented classrooms. In concentrating on using media in the composition class, teachers must overcome their fear of the equipment, learn to rely more on their own ingenuity and ability, and examine the actual cost of…

This collection of speeches and papers is the record of a two-day conference on general education, which focused on articulation, core curricula experiments, and instructional innovations. First, George H. Robertson's welcoming remarks are presented. Then, Donald D. O'Dowd points to evidence of the decline of the liberal arts, reasons for this…

A review of the literature concerning computer assisted instruction (CAI) yielded 23 assertions of the value of CAI as an instructional technique. Sixty-seven faculty members in two community colleges who have had opportunities to use CAI were surveyed as to their agreement or disagreement with each assertion. The faculty responses showed…

As part of a comprehensive environmental scan prepared by Prince George's Community College (PGCC) in Maryland, this report reviews county population trends and forecasts, county and metropolitan area economic trends and forecasts, and college credit enrollment projections. First, population figures and projections for Prince George's County are…

The results of this study show a significant inverse relationship between subjects' written syntactic complexity and cloze test scores across the three grade levels tested (eight, twelve, and thirteen). (DD)

Technological apparatus--including video tapes, television sets, tape cassettes, tape players, phonograph records, films, and film projectors--is inappropriate for humanities classroom instruction and should be relegated to libraries and language labs. Post experience in trying to teach freshman rhetoric using specially prepared visual tapes on…