Reviews questions to consider when providing academic advising in two-year colleges, addressing student academic requirements, transfer and degree interests, certainty of plans, time, financial resources, and parental or other external pressures. Discusses advisement strategies, including goal setting, decision-making techniques, and group…

Suggests using field trips as part of a five-step method designed to improve the writing skills of junior college students needing remedial instruction. (RB)

Describes class discussions in an undergraduate English fiction class. Draws a parallel between students' reactions to reading material and the instructor's own responses to fiction as an undergraduate. Suggests that a literature teacher can depart from the usual role of telling students how they must read a given story. (SG)

As part of a study of two-year instructional opportunities, this paper discusses the structure of associate degrees in Indiana according to the amount of general education required, degree designations used by public institutions in concert with program major designations, and what these requirements and designations imply for transferability. The…

Suggests duplicating the depth and texture of real-life writing in the classroom by using the college organization and its functions to create more accurate writing assignments. (CRH)

This conference resulted in a proposal for a consortium of two-year colleges to perform the following functions: (1) disseminating information about continuing education activities, (2) tapping regional resources that inform on continuing education problems, (3) providing technical assistance in the field, (4) organizing short-term training…

By merging and sharing operations with other institutions, small colleges can cut a variety of administrative costs. Interest in mergers is especially strong at private liberal arts colleges but has included two-year and vocational schools. Such partnerships can extend the life of a college or even promote growth. (MSE)

Describes a study conducted to determine the effect of alcohol abuse on the academic achievement, as measured by grade point averages (GPAs), of two-year college students. Indicates that the more frequently students reported drinking in the previous year, the more likely they were to report a lower GPA. (14 citations). (MAB)

Describes the development of an articulation agreement between community colleges and four-year schools in Maryland that benefits students in Early Childhood Education. Recounts the challenge, initiative development, the issue of mutual respect between professors, the process of developing an agreement, the agreement itself, results of the…

The research reported here investigated pre-service English language teachers' perceptions of newly arrived immigrant children from Mainland China in Hong Kong. Seventeen participants, who had at least 10 weeks of experience working with these immigrant children during teaching practicum, participated in focus group discussions and shared…

This examination of trends and issues that have shaped two-year college learning resources centers (LRCs) focuses on functions within domain of LRC itself. Highlights include factors affecting organizational structure and design, changes in development of the LRC as an organization over the last decade, and LRC structure in practice. (52…

Explores the relationship among popular culture, the lack (if not rejection) of critical thinking skills, and the dangerous state of the world. Suggest an approach to teaching English that emphasizes deliberative modes of thought--imperative for students but also for the common good. (SR)

A study of the Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory (MVII) was conducted to assess its validity for use with students in a new vocational education program at a two-year college. The sample consisted of 390 men and 33 women enrolled in four curriculums. (Author)

Argues that English-as-a-Second-Language writing can have its own distinctive power and eloquence in spite of, and sometimes because of, its errors. Examines several different kinds of "poetic" nonnativisms, suggesting why they were created and why they may strike native speakers as especially expressive. (SR)

There have been many studies on the acquisition of English unaccusative verbs which make use of learner corpora. Most of these studies have so far concluded that even advanced learners of English ungrammatically passivize unaccusative verbs and produce sentences such as "*The accident was happened" and "*The mobile phone was…