Objective: Traditional-age students attending a rural community college in Kentucky's Appalachian region were interviewed, along with faculty members and administrators, to identify phenomena serving as sources of encouragement or as barriers to retention from the point of entry to the point of transfer. Method: Students' perspectives were…

Two-year colleges have played an important role in providing postsecondary education for women in postwar Japan. More recently, a dwindling college-bound population in Japan has resulted in a drastic decrease in the number of and enrollment in 2-year colleges. This study explored the motivations and aspirations of 12 Japanese female students to…

The following steps and alternatives should be considered in developing a well-balanced plan for staff reduction: maintaining current enrollment figures; pinpointing areas of under- and overstaffing; reducing non-salary expenditures; encouraging voluntary reduction; terminating non-tenured faculty; formulating due process procedures; helping…

A search of the literature, and a study of various motivational factors involved in job performance led to the development of an instrument which administrators can use to evaluate job satisfaction at their schools. A list of 19 references and the developed survey instrument are appended. (NHM)

The equal pay for equal work argument has resulted in a trend toward higher part-time teacher salaries, approaching full-time salary equivalents. This article reviews trends around the country, and makes predictions based on documents included in the ERIC system. (NHM)

The small community college needs generalists capable of teaching more than one applied skill to a diversity of students. Experience in fields other than teaching can be of great value. Although adaptability to the local environment is important, the hiring of a local person tends to increase the insularity and provincialism of an institution.…

All Community college faculty members should automatically have 20 percent of their time assigned to community service courses. This will bring community services into the mainstream of the educational program and will assure financial coverage of community service courses. The resulting slack in the regular curriculum should be filled by…

A study of the impact of collective bargaining on students at 30 community college campuses in Michigan found that faculty and administrative respondents tended to disagree on many issues, with faculty usually advocating collective bargaining as beneficial to students and administrators maintaining the opposite position. (DC)

This article reports the results of a 1974 survey of Florida community college administrators and faculty to determine their perceptions of the content and methods that should comprise a faculty inservice program. The authors recommend that faculty values, needs, and perceptions be central to the planning of all inservice experiences. (DC)

Discusses the need for effective programs--preservice and inservice--to prepare community college instructors to meet demands for teaching in two or more subjects and to meet the needs of underprepared students. (MB)

Describes a model for new faculty orientation tried experimentally at Canada College (California) in which each new full-time faculty member was given 20 percent released time, the equivalent of one course of the typical workload of five, to participate in a self-paced, individualized orientation program. An appendix specifies the required…

Describes the Personalized Learning Program at Texas Tech University, which explores self concept theory and the relationship of teaching and learning styles to personality preferences, through a program of research and seminars. (AYC)

Reports on a survey of faculty and administrator attitudes toward, and use and knowledge of, instructional television. Suggests strategies to increase the use of instructional television; e.g., create a need for change, promote the advantages of instructional television, and show how instructional television is compatible with institutional…

Reports on a study of the characteristics of community colleges established within universities, focusing on institutional, program, and faculty characteristics; perceived advantages and disadvantages; and perceptions of the future. (DMM)

Discusses major obstacles to excellence in community colleges: failure to develop adequate means for systematic, periodic, performance appraisal; failure to evaluate individual courses and programs periodically and systematically; failure to commit adequate time and resources to continued personnel development; lack of an adequate decision-making…