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Broton, Katharine M. – Community College Review, 2019
Background: Most community college students from low-income families have ambitious educational degree goals, but only a small fraction attains them. For many decades, sociologists have primarily attributed this problem to a cooling out process in which college practitioners diminish students' educational ambitions using academic reorientation…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Community Colleges, Grants, Low Income
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Hoenninger, Ronald; Black, Richard A. – Community College Review, 1974
Authors considered the responsibility of community colleges for the education of adult students, some prerequisites for effectively dealing with adult students, and proposed a workable model for adult education in the community college. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Students, Community Colleges
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Owen, H. James – Community College Review, 1984
Considers the general education component of technical programs as a means of helping adults adjust to today's industrial changes in processes, machines, and management and thereby to hold jobs, move into new ones, and change careers. Reviews the literature on the general education needs of students in high technology programs and models for…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
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Altieri, Guy; Cygnar, Patricia Marvelli – Community College Review, 1997
Describes how faculty and administrators at Washtenaw Community College (WCC) strengthened general education requirements by identifying 24 core learning elements and incorporating them into existing classes. Provides advice for other colleges undergoing core curriculum revision. (17 citations) (YKH)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Core Curriculum
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Erickson, Michael E. – Community College Review, 1992
Argues that general education differs from liberal education in its underlying assumptions, ideological orientations, pedagogical methods, curricular structures, and ultimate aims. Contends that understanding these differences is important to curricular reform. (DMM)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Educational Theories