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Yang, Po – Community College Review, 2006
A growing number of students, called reverse transfer students, attend community colleges at the same time they are enrolled at a four-year institution or after they earn a bachelor's degree. This article explains the motivations and effects of reverse transfer on both students and institutions, and it discusses the potentially positive…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Dual Enrollment, Colleges
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Bender, Louis W. – Community College Review, 1975
Many colleges are using commercial advertising techniques as an aid to recruitment. Federal Trade Commission safeguards against false or misleading advertising currently apply to proprietary schools, and may soon be applied to private non-profit and public schools as well. Administrators should apprise themselves of FTC standards. (NHM)
Descriptors: Advertising, College Admission, College Students, Legal Responsibility
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Turnage, Martha – Community College Review, 1974
Rural society is suffering acutely from the shock of social change. Rural community colleges, therefore, must interweave life and learning. Four crucial needs of rural students are detailed; all revolve around the need for coping skills developed through dialogue and exposure to new ideas through exploration and/or confrontation. (DC)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
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Moore, E. B., Jr.; Hartsell, Horace E. – Community College Review, 1974
The 948 university-bound sophomores at six public community colleges in Florida ranked 10 variables of influence on their choice of transfer institutions. The availability of desired curricula was rated the first priority. Recruitment was unanimously rated at the bottom. Location and expense are the second and third priorities, respectively. (DC)
Descriptors: College Students, College Transfer Students, Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes
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Leslie, Larry L.; And Others – Community College Review, 1975
This article discusses the possible effects on community colleges of the increasing inclination of governments to channel aid to higher education through students, rather than to institutions directly, as exemplified by the Federal Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program. A study of state grant recipients in five states indicates that student…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Students, Educational Finance, Enrollment Influences
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Lester, David; And Others – Community College Review, 1985
Describes the responses of Atlantic Community College and Richard Stockton State College to the advent of casino gambling in Atlantic City. Provides background information on the two colleges, their students, and their casino education programs, and presents study findings regarding student characteristics and attitudes. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Postsecondary Education, School Business Relationship
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Fillmer, H. Thompson – Community College Review, 1983
Describes the use of Georgi Lozanov's technique using rhythm, breathing, music, and meditation to bring about hypermnesia, or supermemory, to teach vocabulary to 15 university students. Reviews students' vocabulary gains, as seen in pre- and post-test scores, and describes how some students implemented superlearning techniques with their own…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College Students, Nontraditional Education, Postsecondary Education
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Fillmer, H. Thompson; And Others – Community College Review, 1983
Describes a study investigating the effects of group hypnosis on the reading improvement of university students. Finds marginally significant improvement in total vocabulary and comprehension scores and greatest improvement in students with initially low reading scores. Sees group hypnosis as an efficient and economically feasible instructional…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Hypnosis, Reading Improvement
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Gragg, William L.; Stroud, Patricia M. – Community College Review, 1977
This report presents the characteristics of students who failed in their first four-year college attempt, then transferred into community colleges, and subsequently moved on to a four-year college and succeeded. While the numbers who moved on through each stage dropped, they were large enough to identify recovery as a valuable community college…
Descriptors: College Role, College Students, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
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Fillmer, H. Thompson; And Others – Community College Review, 1981
Describes a study investigating the effects of group hypnosis on the reading performance of university students in a reading and writing center. Discusses study procedures and presents data on pretest scores and gains in vocabulary and comprehension scores. Concludes that regular use of self-hypnosis significantly improved performance. (DMM)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College Students, Higher Education, Hypnosis
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Plymale, Sallie H.; Jarrell, Betty Joan – Community College Review, 1981
Presents the background, methods, and findings of a study contrasting the levels of cognitive development of community college and university students. Reveals that 48% of both student groups tested were incapable of performing at the formal-operational level (as described in Piaget's Cognitive Development Model). Discusses implications for…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
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Basile, Donald D. – Community College Review, 1982
Describes the methods and findings of a study of the improvements in remedial writing students' writing ability on their attitudes toward their writing ability, instructors, and classes. Relates positive changes in self-confidence and attitudes toward teachers, ability, and classes, but increasingly negative attitudes toward grading. (WL)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Negative Attitudes, Remedial Instruction
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Nagel, Gerald S. – Community College Review, 1981
Describes the results of a survey in which community college presidents were asked to rate the local influence of 39 ways of conveying institutional image. Reveals that presidents feel that students are the key to college image. (AYC)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Students, Community Colleges, National Surveys
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Clowes, Darrel A.; Levin, Bernard H. – Community College Review, 1980
Discusses a study using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 to explore patterns of postsecondary education. Describes the sample, the methodology, and the findings in terms of students' educational aspirations, college attendance, academic aptitude, family background, sex, race, and academic achievement. (AYC)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academic Aspiration, College Attendance, College Choice
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Buchanan, E. T., III; Lamb, Samuel H., II – Community College Review, 1980
Looks at legislative concerns for student consumerism and responses institutions have made to legal guidelines. Outlines the pre-enrollment, enrollment, and post-graduation rights of students as well as their right to fair and equitable treatment while enrolled. (AYC)
Descriptors: College Students, Consumer Protection, Educational Legislation, Educational Responsibility