Dissatisfied both with lecturing to 125 students three times a week and with the idea of having teaching assistants conduct seminars, the author devised a new method of handling his class. With administration consent, he arranged to lecture to the whole class (by then, 275 students) twice a week and to conduct 11 seminars of 25 students each.…

Reported is a study of the process of bargaining and bargaining impasse to see what relationships exist between the phenomena and faculty and student attitudes toward the process itself, faculty strikes, teaching and learning under such conditions, and affective course goals in biology. The research was conducted by means of a nine-page…

There is a movement at the Community College of Philadelphia to develop an interdisciplinary humanities course for both general studies students and career students. The goal of the course is students' active appreciation of the humanities, by their learning to perform basic rhetorical analyses of historically situated works, while understanding…

Delaware County Community College (DCCC) in Media, Pennsylvania, began pursuing Total Quality/Continuous Quality Improvement (TQ/CQI) methods in 1985-86. A major initiative to support TQ/CQI efforts in the classroom was the development of a faculty in-service program to introduce models reflecting TQ/CQI principles and practice. Baugher's LEARN…

A study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to determine the feasibility of establishing a new human services program with respect to employment potential and student demand for the program. A total of 113 youth service, residential care, community and family service organizations in the area were surveyed to establish a minimum…

Providing alternatives to the way grammar is taught, this proceedings includes every paper (or summary) except one delivered at a conference on the future of grammar in American schools. Papers in the proceedings are: "Keynote: The Future of Grammar in American Schools" (Martha Kolln); "Approaches to Grammar: Teaching & Otherwise" (Kathy…

In 1986, a study was conducted at Middlesex Community College (MxCC) to examine selected demographics of that year's graduating class and to compare them with similar statistics compiled for 1985 graduates. The graduating classes were compared in terms of students' major, sex, age, full-/part-time status, average number of semesters attended,…

A self-renewing college is sensitive to the changing needs of each learner, its goals meet the learning expectations of students, its teachers translate these expectations into measurable teaching objectives, and it constantly revitalizes education. Present faults of general education include fragmented curricula, teacher orientation to national…

Identifies the following criteria as significant predictors of positive administrator attitudes toward Management by Objectives programs: (1) effectiveness as a means for planning and organizing work for which an administrator is accountable; (2) effectiveness as a means for evaluating work performance; (3) effectiveness in improving satisfaction…

One of a series dealing with current issues affecting language arts instruction, this paper focuses on writing across the curriculum. The paper begins by observing that schools and colleges across the country are developing school-wide writing programs, the purposes of which are to improve writing, to enhance learning of content, and to develop…

Since 1972, guidance counselors at the City College of San Francisco have been using a computerized system called the Computer Assisted Occupational Survey (CAOS) to help students make career choices. CAOS uses a battery of aptitude tests to measure verbal and numerical abilities, spatial visualization, clerical perception, and general learning…

The Delphi method was utilized to identify 36 "most successful" vocational education programs on 12 California community college campuses, and these were contrasted with 36 programs not so identified. Data were collected from the administrative supervisors of both types of programs in order to isolate program characteristics which differentiated…

The banking model of education views students as empty passive minds to be filled by the teacher. As Paulo Freire perceived the model, the teacher is seen as possessing the currency of knowledge and distributing it to students. In the changing dynamics of the college literature classroom, the relationship between teacher and student should be more…

The purpose of this project was to design six models for the operation of vocational and adult education and community instructional services coordinating councils that would be adaptable to all 28 Florida community colleges. Surveys were made of all 28 councils and from the analyses six representative sites were selected in which to develop and…

A project was conducted at Delaware County Community College, Media, Pennsylvania, to train two instructional staff members in the area of composite materials technology. A 1-year training program was set up for the two technical instructional specialists at the Boeing Helicopter Training Center, Eddystone, Pennsylvania. The program consisted of…