With large numbers of underprepared students enrolling at community colleges, faculty are beginning to recognize that developmental education is a collegewide responsibility that needs to be fully integrated with the college's broader curriculum and varied missions. (Contains 1 table.)

Community college faculty who teach developmental English classes face numerous pedagogical challenges. Graduate programs, in-service training, and professional association activities help prepare faculty for these challenges, but additional support is needed.

Discusses attitudes of faculty toward students, using results from four studies. Reports that, on a variety of measures, teachers expressed dissatisfaction with the academic preparation and quality of their students. Adds that, in spite of these findings, the majority of faculty were satisfied with their relationships with students. (Contains 11…

Presents an annotated bibliography directing readers to additional publications about urban education, addressing four issues of particular importance to today's urban community colleges and their nontraditional, underprepared student body: workforce preparation, institutional assessment, English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and remedial education,…

Discusses the different methodological perspectives of the research done on transfer students. Answers questions such as: (1) who is conducting research? (2) what methods are being used to gather information? and (3) what types of data are being collected on transfer students? Presents examples of studies that have implications for researchers and…

This chapter provides a description of additional resources on legal issues at community colleges.