Describes the Bronx Corridor of Success Initiative, a collaborative program linking schools, colleges, health institutions, and social agencies that promotes systemic educational reform in low-income communities. Discusses the strategies and outcomes from the first four years of the initiative, established in 1992, and lessons learned. (EMH)

Explores ways that rural community colleges can develop collaborations and relationships that foster educational access and economic development. Discusses the Rural Community College Initiative, a program that assists colleges in the United States' most distressed rural areas in designing locally effective educational practices. (EMH)

Argues for a new organizational culture of collaboration in the community college, one defined by student-centered goals. Discusses several projects that employ this new partnership model, specifically Santa Ana College's (California) Summer Scholars Transfer Institute, which developed from a collaborative assessment by the internal and external…

Uses the Los Angeles Partners Advocating Student Success, an interinstitutional educational reform effort, as a case study in collaboration. Discusses the role of the president, and contends that collaboration provides community colleges with new opportunities to promote access and enhance the educational success of underserved students by…

Using Bronx Community College's (New York) National Center for Urban Partnerships as an example, the article describes the role a managing partner plays in facilitating collaborations that include multiple partners, sixteen in this case. Duties include convening meetings, offering services, assessing partnership progress, providing feedback to the…

Presents the views of Steven Zwerling, Ford Foundation Senior Director, on collaborations with educational institutions and on factors that help make them successful. These factors include: (1) a college president who strongly believes in partnerships; (2) a strong working relationship with the school superintendent; and (3) strong ties to the…

Presents a case study of an assessment project designed to evaluate the Ford Foundation's Urban Partnership Program (UPP). Discusses UPP's assessment model and theory, and documents the project's yearly progress since its inception in 1992. Details UPP's goals and outcomes in assisting at-risk students. (EMH)

Describes Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) publications that pertain to collaborative activities undertaken by community colleges and their partners, the types of agencies that fund such programs, and the strategies that guide effective partnerships. Groups publications into three categories: (1) existing partnerships; (2) funding…

Assesses students' post-college earnings as a specific outcome of a community college education. Describes the economic benefits of a community college education, outlines methodologies used to evaluate students, and discusses policy implications of accountability and performance measures. Contains 31 citations. (VWC)

Discusses accountability in Florida colleges, specifically the movement toward providing state funds to public higher education institutions based on student outputs and outcome--including post-graduation earnings--instead of full-time equivalency enrollment data. Describes several related legislative policies, including the Workforce Florida Act…

Discusses methods of assessing job preparatory-training outcomes, particularly a product called Data Linking for Outcomes Assessment (DLOA). Contends that through data linking, conclusions about programs, job placement, and salaries for graduates can be drawn with ease. Describes key design features for creating a DLOA. (EMH)

Discusses the collaboration among the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, the California Employment Development Department and community college practitioners to develop an administrative data-matching system to meet accountability mandates of the 1990 Perkins Act. Reviews the benefits of collaboration when matching student records…

Examines North Carolina's measurable outcomes of workforce development and the economic impact of attending a community college in the state. Focuses on the performance reporting system and includes a discussion about using the data to inform policy. (VWC)

Describes Bellevue Community College's (Washington) use of earnings data and partnerships to respond to a regional need for qualified technology employees and to develop new high-wage programs. Identifies issues that emerged in response to a state performance-funding measure tied to professional/technical graduates' earnings. (VWC)

Explores the use of state wage data in college planning, program improvement, and educational assessment. Explains how Southwestern College, which began collecting post-college wage data to gauge its economic impact in the community, found that these data were also valuable in assessing its career programs and institutional effectiveness. (EMH)