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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Pierce, Nancy; Burgio, Maria R. – 1981
In 1979 a project was undertaken to evaluate the Institute of Study for Older Adults (ISOA) Liberal Arts program, a unit of the City University of New York which provides noncredit, off-campus liberal arts classes for the elderly poor of New York City. The evaluation sought to determine the demographic characteristics of program participants; the…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Community Satisfaction, Liberal Arts, Older Adults
Fernandez, Thomas V.; Raab, Marjorie K. – 1984
Nassau Community College (NCC) is currently working with a program evaluation model in which faculty from one department serve as peer evaluation consultants to direct the self-evaluations of other departments. The four functional objectives initially motivating the development of NCC's plan directed that: real decisions about academic programs…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Evaluation Methods
Friedel, Janice Nahra – 1988
The Eastern Iowa Community College District (EICCD), a multicollege district serving eight counties in east central Iowa, has developed a procedure for conducting labor market assessments to provide the data necessary for their long-range decision-making and strategic planning efforts. The major purpose of these assessments is to provide direction…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Decision Making
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Board of Governors. – 1984
Selected statistics on student numbers, units of average daily attendance (ADA), and finances in the California community college districts are provided in this report for 1982-83 and projected for 1983-84. Part I provides enrollment data on total day, full-time, credit, and female students, by district. Part II contains annual ADA data and…
Descriptors: Budgets, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Enrollment
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Board of Governors. – 1983
Selected statistics on student numbers, units of average daily attendance (ADA), and finances in the California community college districts are provided in this report for 1981-82 and projected for 1982-83. Part I provides enrollment data by district on total day, full-time, credit, and female students. Part II contains annual ADA data and…
Descriptors: Budgets, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Enrollment
Birenbaum, William M. – 1971
The purpose of this speech is to review the causes of campus unrest and to make recommendations for revisions in American higher education institutions. In an age when knowledge is power, American higher education has not made knowledge as freely available or as usable as is necessary. Further, campus governance has permitted and supported great…
Descriptors: Activism, College Faculty, Educational Change, Educational Discrimination
Massoud, LindaLee – 1994
This report describes in detail the deaf interpreter training program offered at Mott Community College (Flint, Michigan). The program features field-based learning experiences, internships, team teaching, a field practicum, the goal of having students meet certification standards, and proficiency examinations. The program has special…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Certification, Community Colleges, Course Descriptions
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Sparks, Richard L. – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1995
Reviews research addressing the relationship between native language skills and success in learning a foreign language. Describes four components of a language-based model for diagnosing foreign language learning problems. Highlights three major intervention strategies for at-risk foreign language learners. (53 citations) (MAB)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Developmental Programs, Educational Diagnosis
Brady, Marilyn H.; Hutsell, Deborah C. – 1985
"Utilization of Skills in the Care of the Parent Child System" (NS 139) is an associate degree nursing course offered at Chattanooga State Technical Community College to provide essential theory and experience in caring for the parent-child system throughout various stages of development. The course syllabus for NS 139 begins with information on…
Descriptors: Birth, Children, Community Colleges, Congenital Impairments
OVERTURF, C.L.; PRICE, EDWIN C. – 1966
STUDENTS EVALUATED THEIR INSTRUCTORS' PERSONAL TRAITS, SCHOLARSHIP, SKILL OF PRESENTATION, AND ACCURACY IN EVALUATION. THE QUESTIONNAIRE FORM EMPLOYED USED A NUMERICAL SYSTEM WHICH ALLOWED RANKING OF PROFESSORS ACCORDING TO TOTAL ADJUSTED SCORES. STUDENTS COULD WRITE COMMENTS ON TEACHER PERFORMANCE. INSTRUCTORS AWARDING HIGHER GRADES DID NOT RATE…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Attitudes, Student Teacher Relationship, Teacher Effectiveness
O'Brien, Ed; And Others – 1995
This report presents findings and recommendations from a project undertaken by the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) to determine reasons for a decline in business course enrollments and develop strategies to increase enrollments in management and marketing programs throughout the district. Following background information on the…
Descriptors: Business Education, Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment
DCM Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1974
San Jose City College's Future Think Program consists of the following courses: Language, Culture, and Change; Third World Since 1945; Marriage and Family; Ecology and Man; Science Fiction; Introduction to Literature: Science Fiction; Introduction to Sociology; and Sociology/Fiction of the Future. An evaluation by an independent consulting firm…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Humanism, Humanistic Education, Participant Satisfaction
Staples, Katherine E. – 1981
This paper presents a personal approach to the special pedagogical requirements of teaching writing courses for elders and specifically examines courses in poetry writing, expository prose, and prose fiction, taught to persons over 55 under the auspices of the Institute of Lifetime Learning, a nonprofit, self-supporting institution associated with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Autobiographies, Community Colleges
Tichenor, Richard – 1986
A study was conducted at St. Louis Community College to disaggregate statistics for fall 1985 nonreturning students by educational goal and full-time/part-time status in order to provide more meaningful data for both internal and external evaluation of student retention and outcomes. Study findings included the following: (1) the comparison of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Baltzer, Jan A. – 1991
Recognizing that the hard part of making the application of technology successful is the development of appropriate management structures and approaches, this paper reviews the research and writings of several top management and communications professionals and correlates these theories to the information technology environment on campus. Six…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Information Management
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