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April 2010

• Barbara Jones-Kavalier and Suzanne L. Flannigan: The Hiring Game: Reshaping Community College Practices.(Book review)
  April 1, 2010; Wilson, Donna M.

  Barbara Jones-Kavalier and Suzanne L. Flannigan The Hiring Game: Reshaping Community College Practices. Washington, DC: Community College Press, 2008. 210 pp. The opening of the...
• Crossing Boundaries Creating Community College Partnerships to Promote Educational Transitions
  April 1, 2010; Amey, Marilyn J.;Eddy, Pamela L.;Campbell, Timothy G.

  Abstract Community college partnerships with institutions in other educational sectors (including schools and universities) are important and strategic ways of meeting the educational needs of...
• Leaders as Linchpins for Framing Meaning
  April 1, 2010; Eddy, Pamela L.

  Abstract Community college leaders serve as linchpins for framing meaning on campus. The current pressures on institutions (given declining financial resources, demands for accountability,...
• The Community College Accountability Network: Understanding Institutional Accountability at Aspen Grove Community College
  April 1, 2010; Harbour, Clifford P.;Davies, Timothy Gray;Gonzales-Walker, Roxanne

  Abstract This article reports on a qualitative, interpretive case study examining how trustees, administrators, faculty members, and staff members at a rural community college understand their...
• Trustees' Perceptions of the Desired Qualifications for the Next Generation of Community College Presidents
  April 1, 2010; Plinske, Kathleen;Packard, Walter J.

  Abstract Although the authority for hiring a community college president resides with the board of trustees, few studies have directly explored trustees' perceptions of the desired...

January 2010

• Educational Aspirations in an Urban Community College: Differences between Immigrant and Native Student Groups
  January 1, 2010; Conway, Katherine M.

  Abstract This study explored the educational aspirations of immigrant and native students in an urban community college. Using Burton Clark's cooling-out theory as a framework, the study...
• English-Major Community College Presidents: A Narrative Inquiry
  January 1, 2010; Frankland, Tammy

  Abstract The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to discover how six community college presidents who were undergraduate English majors construct the stories of their academic and...
• Examining an Evolution: A Case Study of Organizational Change Accompanying the Community College Baccalaureate
  January 1, 2010; McKinney, Lyle;Morris, Phillip A.

  Abstract This study examined the nature and degree of organizational change that occurs when community colleges offer their own baccalaureate degree programs. Utilizing qualitative research...
• Feeling Supported: Curricular Learning Communities for Basic Skills Courses and Students Who Speak English as a Second Language
  January 1, 2010; Smith, Rachel A.

  Abstract This study examined the relationship between enrollment in learning communities and students' self-reported learning outcomes at 13 community colleges. Students included in the...
• John E. Roueche, M. Melissa Richardson, Phillip W. Neal, and Suanne D. Roueche: The Creative Community College: Leading Change Through Innovation.(Book review)
  January 1, 2010; Hall, Jodi

  John E. Roueche, M. Melissa Richardson, Phillip W. Neal, and Suanne D. Roueche The Creative Community College: Leading Change Through Innovation. Washington, DC: Community College Press, 2008....

October 2009

• Editor's note.(Obituary)
  October 1, 2009; Palmer, James C.

  Earlier this year, the community college world lost a great friend and scholar with the passing of Barbara K. Townsend, and the Community College Review lost one of its staunchest supporters...
• Financial Aid and Persistence in Community Colleges: Assessing the Effectiveness of Federal and State Financial Aid Programs in Oklahoma
  October 1, 2009; Mendoza, Pilar;Mendez, Jesse P.;Malcolm, Zaria

  Abstract Using a longitudinal, state-wide dataset, this study assessed the effect of financial aid on the persistence of full-time students in associate's degree programs at the Oklahoma...
• Institutional Contradiction in the Community College
  October 1, 2009; Ayers, David F.

  Abstract Critical discourse analysis was employed to examine the narratives collected from 40 community college administrators who were asked to recount their experience in an event, activity,...
• The Denominator as the "Target"
  October 1, 2009; Hom, Willard C.

  Abstract Various analyses have used the transfer rate as a performance indicator for community colleges, but the question of what constitutes an appropriate denominator in the transfer-rate...
• The Importance of Funding Postsecondary Correctional Educational Programs
  October 1, 2009; Mercer, Kerri Russo

  Abstract The correctional population in the United States has increased dramatically in the past two decades and shows no sign of tapering off. In addition, the recidivism rates of those...

July 2009

• "It Was Just That I Was Afraid": Promoting Success by Addressing Students' Fear of Failure
  July 1, 2009; Cox, Rebecca D.

  This article considers the risk of failing college and how the fear of failure shapes students' behavior. Drawing on a semester-long study of students and instructors in a community college...
• Online Education and Organizational Change
  July 1, 2009; Mitchell, Regina L. Garza

  An in-depth case study examined faculty and administrator perceptions of how online education affected the organizational culture of a large, suburban community college. Findings suggest that in...
• Predictors of Transfer to 4-Year, For-Profit Institutions
  July 1, 2009; Sheldon, Caroline Q.

  Logistic regression was employed to determine whether student transfer to for-profit, 4-year colleges (as opposed to other 4-year colleges) is a function of students' social background...
• Staley, C. (2010). Focus on Community College Success.(Book review)
  July 1, 2009; Bartlett, Michelle E.

  Staley, C. (2010). Focus on Community College Success. Boston: Wadsworth. Focus on Community College Success sets out to provide students with the tools to help them through the community...
• Ties That Blind: Perpetuation of Racial Comfort and Discomfort at a Community College
  July 1, 2009; Price, Douglas B.;Hyle, Adrienne E.;Jordan, Kitty V.

  Interviews with 17 African American students and 19 White students were employed to examine interracial relations at a predominantly White community college campus. Seen through the lens of...

April 2009

• College Hopping: Exploring the Occurrence, Frequency, and Consequences of Lateral Transfer
  April 1, 2009; Bahr, Peter Riley

  Lateral transfer (between community colleges) is second only to upward transfer (to a 4-year institution) among community college students' most common patterns of transfer. Yet, upward transfer...
• Editor's Note
  April 1, 2009; Palmer, James C.

  One obvious goal of the Community College Review is to provide new insights into the experiences of community college students and faculty members. The articles in this issue offer intriguing...
• Examining the Relationship between Class Scheduling and Student Achievement in College Algebra
  April 1, 2009; Gallo, Michael A.;Odu, Michael

  This study examines the relationship between scheduling (3-, 2-, and 1-day-per-week classes) and achievement in college algebra. The study is grounded in spacing effect theory, which examines how...
• Maneuvering the Role as a Community College Artist-Educator: Scholarship Assessed
  April 1, 2009; Gibson, John R.;Murray, John P.

  This study examined how Texas community college artist-educators balance artistic productivity with their teaching responsibilities. The 98 survey respondents represented 76.6% of a stratified...
• Mellow, G. O., & Heelan, C. (2008). Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College.(Book review)
  April 1, 2009; Hagedorn, Linda Serra

  Mellow, G. O., & Heelan, C. (2008). Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Mellow and Heelan provide an excellent...

January 2009

• Delicate Engagement: The Lived Experience of Community College Students Enrolled in High-Risk Online Courses
  January 1, 2009; Bambara, Cynthia S.;Harbour, Clifford P.;Davies, Timothy Gray;Athey, Susan

  This article reports the findings of a phenomenological study that examined the lived experience of community college students enrolled in high-risk online courses (HRCs) at a community college...
• Do University Centers Produce Comparable Teacher Education Candidates?
  January 1, 2009; Locklear, Christopher D.;Davis, Mary Lynne;Covington, Vivian Martin

  This study investigates the effectiveness of a two-plus-two university center teacher education program. In this program, the entire curriculum is delivered on community college campuses;...
• Rosenbaum, J. E., Deil-Amen, R., & Person, A. E. (2006). After Admission: From College Access to College Success.(Book review)
  January 1, 2009; Kiessling, Marcia Kennard

  Rosenbaum, J. E., Deil-Amen, R., & Person, A. E. (2006). After Admission: From College Access to College Success. New York: Russell Sage. DOI: 10.1177/0091552108327071 After...
• Student Success Courses in the Community College: An Exploratory Study of Student Perspectives
  January 1, 2009; O'Gara, Lauren;Karp, Melinda Mechur;Hughes, Katherine L.

  This study examines student success courses in two urban community colleges. Through analysis of student interview data, we find that such courses are an essential resource for students, in large...
• Unintended Consequences: Examining the Effect of Part-Time Faculty Members on Associate's Degree Completion
  January 1, 2009; Jaeger, Audrey J.;Eagan, M. Kevin, Jr.

  Employment of part-time faculty members by community colleges has become an increasingly common approach to reducing institutional costs, which may have unintended consequences for student...

October 2008

• Chief Academic Officers' Demographics and Educational Backgrounds
  October 1, 2008; Keim, Marybelle C.;Murray, John P.

  The impending retirements of many community college leaders creates a need to better understand who the chief academic officers (CAOs) are and the paths they followed to become CAOs. Nonetheless,...
• Editor's Note
  October 1, 2008; Palmer, James C.

  This issue of the Community College Review includes three research reports and one scholarly essay. First, David S. Fike and Renea Fike draw on data from an urban community college to identity...
• Making the Case for a Positive Approach to Improving Organizational Performance in Higher Education Institutions: The Community College Abundance Model
  October 1, 2008; Shults, Christopher

  Increasingly hostile and turbulent environments have rendered top-down, problem-focused management structures inadequate for competing in the ever-changing postsecondary knowledge industry. The...
• Predicting Performance in a Community College Content-Area Course from Academic Skill Level
  October 1, 2008; Goldstein, Miriam T.;Perin, Dolores

  Binary logistic regression analyses were performed on institutional data from a large urban community college in order to identify predictors of performance in a content course (psychology) that...
• Predictors of First-Year Student Retention in the Community College
  October 1, 2008; Fike, David S.;Fike, Renea

  This study analyzed predictors of fall-to-spring and fall-to-fall retention for 9,200 first-time-in-college students who enrolled in a community college over a four-year period. Findings...
• Wallin, D. L. (Ed.). (2005). Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers
  October 1, 2008; Schuetz, Pam

  Wallin, D. L. (Ed.). (2005). Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers. Bolton, MA: Anker. Adjunct or...

July 2008

• Community College Faculty: What We Know and Need to Know
  July 1, 2008; Twombly, Susan;Townsend, Barbara K.

  This review of existing literature about community college faculty members speculates about why they have received so little scholarly attention, summarizes the nature of existing research,...
• Does the Elimination of Prerequisites Affect Enrollment and Success?
  July 1, 2008; Abou-Sayf, Frank K.

  The impact of an experimental, one-semester suspension of mathematics and English prerequisites from 12 courses is investigated. Data on enrollment, student performance, and instructor opinions...
• Editor's Note
  July 1, 2008; Palmer, James C.

  Editors tend to see their journals prospectively. We are always working on the next issue. Once it is published, there is yet another issue to work on. Still, I cannot help but wonder about the...
• Hellmich, D. M. (Ed.). (2007). Ethical Leadership in the Community College: Bridging Theory and Daily Practice.(Book review)
  July 1, 2008; Phelan, Daniel J.

  Hellmich, D. M. (Ed.). (2007). Ethical Leadership in the Community College: Bridging Theory and Daily Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Hellmich has assembled an excellent team of 13...
• The Effects of Social and Cultural Capital on Student Persistence: Are Community Colleges More Meritocratic?
  July 1, 2008; Wells, Ryan

  This study examines the influences of social and cultural capital on persistence from 1st to 2nd year and how these effects differ between community colleges and 4-year institutions. Results show...

April 2008

• Editor's Note
  April 1, 2008; Palmer, James C.

  The Community College Review depends on the volunteer efforts of knowledgeable reviewers who carefully assess manuscripts and provide the authors and me with valuable feedback. This feedback...
• Levin, J. S. (2007). Nontraditional Students and Community Colleges: The Conflict of Justice and Neoliberalism.(Book review)
  April 1, 2008; Lathe, Terina Roberson

  Levin, J. S. (2007). Nontraditional Students and Community Colleges: The Conflict of Justice and Neoliberalism. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. DOE 10.1177/0091552108315591 ...
• Performing Gender in the Workplace: Gender Socialization, Power, and Identity among Women Faculty Members
  April 1, 2008; Lester, Jaime

  Organizational cultures shape and reinforce socially appropriate roles for men and women. Drawing on a performativity framework, which assumes that gender is socially constructed through gendered...
• Remembering Raymond J. Young and the Grass-Roots Development of Community Colleges from 1950 to 1976
  April 1, 2008; Katsinas, Stephen G.

  Raymond J. Young (1923-2007) played a key role in the post-World War II development of community colleges in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and elsewhere. This article describes his scholarly and...
• Security, Dignity, Caring Relationships, and Meaningful Work: Needs Motivating Participation in a Job-Training Program
  April 1, 2008; Ayers, David F.;Miller-Dyce, Cherrel;Carlone, David

  Researchers asked 17 participants in a job-training program to describe their personal struggles following an economic restructuring. Examined through a critical theoretical lens, findings...
• The Institutional Vision of Community Colleges: Assessing Style as Well as Substance
  April 1, 2008; Abelman, Robert;Dalessandro, Amy

  Providing an accessible and adaptable education has become an increasingly daunting task for community colleges. Administrators must formulate adaptive strategies as well as purposefully...

January 2008

• Factors Predicting Community College Faculty Satisfaction with Instructional Autonomy
  January 1, 2008; Kim, Dongbin;Twombly, Susan;Wolf-Wendel, Lisa

  In light of growing speculation that the autonomy of community college faculty members is eroding, this study draws on the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty to explore the...
• Preparation for Midskilled Work and Continuous Learning in Nine Community College Occupational Programs
  January 1, 2008; Torraco, Richard J.

  This study examines student learning experiences in nine occupational education programs at two Midwestern community colleges. Interviews with 39 program graduates and 10 of their supervisors...
• Remediation in the Community College: An Evaluator's Perspective
  January 1, 2008; Levin, Henry M.;Calcagno, Juan Carlos

  Remediation is the most common approach to preparing students academically and socially during their early stages of college. However, despite its profound importance and its significant costs,...
• The Availability, Prospects, and Fiscal Potential of On-Campus Housing at Rural Community Colleges
  January 1, 2008; Moeck, Pat G.;Katsinas, Stephen G.;Hardy, David E.;Bush, V. Barbara

  Many rural community colleges have long provided on-campus housing. This article profiles the availability of housing at rural community colleges in 2001-2002 and 2005-2006, examines the factors...

December 2007

• Editor's Note
  December 22, 2007; Palmer, James C.

  This issue of the Community College Review includes two refereed articles. Both address timely themes. Christopher M. Mullin and David S. Honeyman describe a typology of state funding formulas,...
• Interpreting the Influence of Community College Attendance upon Baccalaureate Attainment
  December 22, 2007; Townsend, Barbara K.

  National quantitative studies examining the impact of community college attendance upon educational attainment conclude that initial attendance at a community college (as opposed to a 4-year...
• New Learning: Constructing Knowledge in Leadership Training Programs
  December 22, 2007; Wiessner, Colleen Aalsburg;Sullivan, Leila Gonzalez

  This study examined the new learning that occurred in a professional development program for participants who aspire to the community college presidency. Knowledge construction occurred on three...
• The Academic Legacy of Berta Vigil Laden
  December 22, 2007; Hagedorn, Linda Serra

  Berta Vigil Laden was a scholar who helped raise our understanding of minority-serving institutions generally and Hispanic-serving institutions in particular. She approached her work with empathy...
• The Community College Survey of Student Engagement
  December 22, 2007; McClenney, Kay M.

  The Community College Survey of Student Engagement, established in 2001 and administered by the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin, provides systematically...
• The Funding of Community Colleges: A Typology of State Funding Formulas
  December 22, 2007; Mullin, Christopher M.;Honeyman, David S.

  Community college funding formulas are tools utilized to substantiate the acquisition of funds and delineate the cost of education. This study develops a typology of community college funding...

September 2007

• An Exploratory Study of Community College Baccalaureate Teacher Education Programs: Lessons Learned
  September 22, 2007; Floyd, Deborah L.;Arnauld, Cheri St.

  Historically, community colleges have played a role in preparing teachers by strengthening articulation and transfer with university-based teacher colleges, hosting university center programs...
• Editor's Note.
  September 22, 2007; Palmer, James C.

  This issue of the Community College Review focuses on the community college role in teacher education. The guest editor, Barbara K. Townsend of the University of Missouri, has assembled a group...
• Pre-Service Teacher Education in the Community College
  September 22, 2007; Townsend, Barbara K.

  For several years, alarms have been sounding about a shortage of K-12 teachers. Massive impending retirements are claimed: According to Allen (2002), nearly 40% of current teachers will be...
• Teacher Pipelines: Career Pathways Extending from High School to Community College to University
  September 22, 2007; Bragg, Debra D.

  Because K-12 teacher preparation is enormously important to the future of the nation, university teacher education programs are being joined by programs at other educational institutions to...
• The Impact of a Grant-Funded Project on Selected Community College Teacher Education Programs
  September 22, 2007; Cunniff, Patricia A.;Belknap, Mary C.;Kinholt, Stephan

  Recent concern about the quality and supply of teachers in mathematics and science has prompted a rethinking of how teachers in these content areas are recruited and prepared. This article...
• The Specialized Associate's Degree in Teacher Education: Effective Pathway or Degree Proliferation'?
  September 22, 2007; Ignash, Jan M.;Slotnick, Ruth C.

  To address the teacher shortage, some states have developed special associate's degrees in teacher education. This article explores the prevalence and structure of these specialized associate's...

June 2007

• Community College Institutional Effectiveness: Perspectives of Campus Stakeholders
  June 22, 2007; Skolits, Gary J.;Graybeal, Susan

  This study addresses a campus institutional effectiveness (IE) process and its influence on faculty and staff. Although a comprehensive, rational [E process appeals to campus leaders, this study...
• Connecting Organizational Environments with the Instructional Technology Practices of Community College Faculty
  June 22, 2007; Mars, Matthew M.;Ginter, Mary Beth

  The ongoing integration of instructional technology within community colleges has occurred for a variety of reasons. First, community colleges have implemented technology-based models to make...
• Creating and Sustaining Community College-University Transfer Partnerships
  June 22, 2007; Kisker, Carrie B.

  This qualitative study of a community college-university partnership employs network embeddedness theory to examine the processes involved in creating and sustaining partnerships to enhance...
• Faculty Life at Community Colleges: The Perspective of Women with Children
  June 22, 2007; Wolf-Wendel, Lisa;Ward, Kelly;Twombly, Susan B.

  This article explores the dynamics of how female faculty members at 2-year colleges balance the demands of their faculty jobs with motherhood. Results suggest that the community college appears...
• Research on Race and Ethnic Relations among Community College Students
  June 22, 2007; Maxwell, William;Shammas, Diane

  Considerable research has been conducted in the past two decades on race and ethnic relations among community college students. The atheoretical underpinnings of this research have led to vague...
• The Last Dance
  June 22, 2007; Vaughan, George B.

  In a small town long ago and far away (actually only about 200 miles from where I now live), I somehow managed to survive my teenage years. One memory from those years is that of the high school...

March 2007

• "Dragging the Past Behind Us"
  March 22, 2007; Outcalt, Charles

  Many great universities define their missions as a mixture of teaching, research, and service. This tripartite division is quite useful for describing the impact Arthur Cohen has had on me, one...
• A Change in Direction
  March 22, 2007; Kozeracki, Carol

  Having entered UCLA's Graduate School of Education after growing up in New York and attending a private university back East, I had no understanding of the significance of community colleges'...
• Advancing Research on the Community College
  March 22, 2007; Bers, Trudy H.

  Arthur M. Cohen and his colleagues at the Center for the Study of Community Colleges have made significant and broad contributions to the scholarly literature and empirical research about...
• An Appreciation of Art Cohen from the Perspective of a Practitioner and Former Graduate Student
  March 22, 2007; Purdy, Leslie

  When I enrolled in the graduate school of education at UCLA in fall 1969, I had not heard of Arthur Cohen. I was inclined to focus my studies on the more traditional college and university...
• Arthur Cohen as a Mentor
  March 22, 2007; Laanan, Frankie Santos

  I first met Dr. Cohen in the fall of 1993 when I began my graduate work at UCLA. Two years prior, I transferred to UCLA from Los Angeles Valley College, one of the nine comprehensive community...
• Arthur M. Cohen's Publications: A Selected Bibliography
  March 22, 2007; Palmer, James C.

  Arthur M. Cohen's publications over a 40-year period, many coauthored with Florence B. Brawer, reflect his continual efforts to describe the American community college accurately. This...
• Editor's Note
  March 22, 2007; Vaughan, George B.

  This issue of the Community College Review is certainly one of the most interesting and informative ones I have been associated with since becoming editor. The subject of the volume--the work of...
• Organizing and Making Sense of the Literature: Arthur M. Cohen as Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges, 1966-2003
  March 22, 2007; Palmer, James C.

  A major part of Arthur M. Cohen's scholarly legacy is the archive of documents and journal articles catalogued by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges, which he led throughout its entire...
• Research That Makes Things Better
  March 22, 2007; Armstrong, William B.

  When I was asked to write a personal tribute to Arthur Cohen, I gratefully but nervously accepted the task. Describing Arthur's profound influence on my professional and intellectual development...
• Student appreciation of Arthur M. Cohen's teaching and scholarship.(Brief article)
  March 22, 2007; Palmer, James C.

  Over his 40-year career as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Arthur Cohen was the major advisor to almost 70 doctoral students. Few professors are able to shape...
• Teaching and Mentoring Future Leaders in the Field
  March 22, 2007; Ignash, Jan M.

  Any discussion of Arthur M. Cohen's contributions to community colleges must include the students he taught and mentored during his 40 years as a professor at the University of California, Los...
• The "Art" of Teaching and Scholarship: Arthur Cohen's Influence on My Development as an Educational Professional
  March 22, 2007; Rifkin, Tronie

  By the time I started graduate school at UCLA, Arthur Cohen was a seasoned and seemingly gruff professor, which, in the eyes of many students, including mine, made him a formidable figure. After...
• The Cohen Contribution to Community College Leadership
  March 22, 2007; Eaton, Judith S.

  Arthur M. Cohen has spoken to community college leaders on a diverse array of issues for many years. This article focuses on his contributions to this leadership in three major areas: (a)...
• The Scholarly Contributions of Arthur M. Cohen: A Special Issue of Community College Review
  March 22, 2007; Ignash, Jan M.;Palmer, James C.

  In 2004, Arthur M. Cohen retired from the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), after an exceptional 40-year career. Working with spouse and colleague Florence B. Brawer,...

December 2006

• From Learning to Education: A New Paradigm for the Community College
  December 22, 2006; Hanson, Chad M.

  In the 1990s, community colleges underwent a shift in their guiding paradigm. The transformation in norms, roles, and values took place in the name of "learning," as the change was driven by the...
• Involvement, Development, and Retention: Theoretical Foundations and Potential Extensions for Adult Community College Students
  December 22, 2006; Chaves, Christopher

  The aim of this article is to orient those interested in adult community college student research to a wide array of discourses and theoretical tools that can help us understand the underlying...
• Levin, J. S., Kater, S., & Wagoner, R. L. (2006). Community College Faculty: At Work in the New Economy.(Book review)
  December 22, 2006; Ponjuan, Luis

  Levin, J. S., Kater, S., & Wagoner, R. L. (2006). Community College Faculty: At Work in the New Economy. New York: Palgrave Macmillian. DOI: 10.1177/0091552106293415 This book offers...
• Missouri A+ Students: How Are They Doing?
  December 22, 2006; Jochems, Jeffrey T.;Hammons, James O.;Stegman, Charles

  This nonexperimental study of Missouri's A+ Program compares the academic performance of these students with two similar groups of students at a community college in southwest Missouri....
• The Influence of Subcultures on Planned Change in a Community College
  December 22, 2006; Locke, Mary G.;Guglielmino, Lucy

  This qualitative case study focusing on a collegewide change initiative was conducted to provide community college leaders with a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the role of...

September 2006

• Emerging Definitions of Leadership in Higher Education: New Visions of Leadership or Same Old "Hero" Leader?
  September 22, 2006; Eddy, Pamela L.;VanDerLinden, Kim E.

  The higher education literature suggests that alternative leadership styles are replacing the traditionally held definitions of leadership and provide new and different (and possibly superior)...
• Improving Access to the Baccalaureate: Articulation Agreements and the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education Program
  September 22, 2006; Zinser, Richard W.;Hanssen, Carl E.

  This article presents an analysis of national data from the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program regarding articulation agreements for the transfer of 2-year technical degrees to...
• Integrating High School and the Community College: Previous Efforts and Current Possibilities
  September 22, 2006; Kisker, Carrie B.

  This article explores three incarnations of the idea to integrate high school and the community college--Leonard Koos's 6-4-4 plan of public school organization, Middle College High School, and...
• Self-Identity Modification and Intent to Return: Baby Boomers Reinvent Themselves Using the Community College
  September 22, 2006; Palazesi, Louis Mark;Bower, Beverly L.

  This study examines the value importance to baby boomers of the community college as a means to reinvent or modify self-view and how value importance influences intent to return to the college...
• The Community College Review's New Partner
  September 22, 2006; Vaughan, George B.

  With the publication of the spring 2006 issue, the Community College Review (CCR) completed its 33rd year of publication. For the past 33 years, North Carolina State University (NCSU) has...

March 2006

• An Assessment of Web Accessibility Knowledge and Needs at Oregon Community Colleges
  March 22, 2006; Wisdom, Jennifer P.;White, Nathan A.;Goldsmith, Kimberley A.;Bielavitz, Sarann;Davis, Charles E.;Drum, Charles

  A needs assessment determined Oregon community college staff knowledge of (a) accessible information technology (IT) guidelines, (b) IT-related disability laws, (c) legal obligations regarding...
• Colorado's Voucher Legislation and the Consequences for Community Colleges
  March 22, 2006; Harbour, Clifford P.;Davies, Timothy Gray;Lewis, Chance W.

  In this article, the authors examine the new voucher program used to subsidize undergraduate education at Colorado community colleges and four-year institutions. The authors explain the voucher...
• Editor's Choice: Sexual Harassment Education on Campus: Communication Using Media
  March 22, 2006; Ramson, Amy

  Sexual harassment is a pervasive problem on our nation's college and university campuses, one that can have devastating results. Educational institutions had been shielded from liability for...
• UCLA Community College Review: Reverse Transfer and Multiple Missions of Community Colleges
  March 22, 2006; Yang, Po

  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....

December 2005

• Community College Honors and Developmental Faculty: Characteristics, Practices, and Implications for Access and Educational Equity
  December 22, 2005; Kisker, Carrie B.;Outcalt, Charles L.

  This study explores the demographic, personal, and professional characteristics of honors and developmental faculty in community colleges. The authors uncover significant racial and ethnic...
• Editor's Choice: A Community College Leadership Academy: Developing Leaders for Massachusetts
  December 22, 2005; Crosson, Patricia H.;Douglas, Kate;O'Meara, Kerry Ann;Sperling, Charmian

  Planned retirements and demographic trends suggest a crisis for community college leadership in the near future. This article describes a recently initiated program to develop current and future...
• Experiences of Transfer Students in a Collaborative Baccalaureate Nursing Program
  December 22, 2005; Cameron, Cherylyn

  Community college students who transfer to universities face innumerable challenges. While documented in the American literature on transfer, there has been relatively little published research...
• UCLA Community College Review: The Overlooked Minority: Asian Pacific American Students at Community Colleges
  December 22, 2005; Lew, Jonathan W.;Chang, June C.;Wang, Winnie W.

  This review examines the impact of Asian Pacific American (APA) students' characteristics and experiences on their academic achievement. The article begins by describing the demographics and...

September 2005

• Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers.(Book Review)
  September 22, 2005; Harbour, Clifford P.

  Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers Desna L. Wallin (Ed.). Anker Publishing: Bolton, MA. 2005, 227...
• Defining College Readiness from the Inside Out: First-Generation College Student Perspectives
  September 22, 2005; Byrd, Kathleen L.;MacDonald, Ginger

  This study provides understanding of college readiness from the perspectives of older first-generation college students who transferred from community colleges. Results indicate that life...
• Editor's Choice: The Significant Community College
  September 22, 2005; VanWagoner, Randall J.;Bowman, Linda S.;Spraggs, Laurence D.

  The level of success that has sustained community colleges in the past will not suffice for the future, Shifting environments, resources, competitors, accountability, and technology have changed...
• Organizational Climate in Its Semiotic Aspect: A Postmodern Community College Undergoes Renewal
  September 22, 2005; Ayers, David F.

  A study at a community college undergoing renewal provided an opportunity to explore how members of various institutional subsystems differ in the ways they make meaning of organizational climate...
• UCLA Community College Review: Why Practitioners and Researchers Ignore Each Other [Even When They Are the Same Person] (1)
  September 22, 2005; Cohen, Arthur M.

  Differences between researchers and practitioners can be found in four areas: the distance from the object of study; the ideological perspective; the purposes of the research; and the political...

March 2005

• Faculty and Administrative Support for Strategic Planning: A Comparison of Two- and Four-Year Institutions
  March 22, 2005; Welsh, John F.;Nunez, William J.;Petrosko, Joseph

  This article examines faculty and administrator support for strategic planning activities at two-year and four-year colleges and universities. Drawing data from public institutions in Kentucky, a...
• Faculty-Based Advising: An Important Factor in Community College Retention
  March 22, 2005; McArthur, Ronald C.

  Community college students are an at-risk group because of their lack of preparation and lack of a firm connection to the institution. Using the literature on student retention that equates a...
• Mentoring Community College Faculty and Staff: Balancing Contradictions of Informal Program Components and Formal Program Structure
  March 22, 2005; Hopkins, Ruth A.;Grigoriu, Elizabeth

  While research indicates that community colleges believe mentoring is valuable, there is recent evidence that the career benefits from community college mentoring programs may be less than...
• UCLA Community College Review: Campus Environment: A Missing Link in Studies of Community College Attrition
  March 22, 2005; Schuetz, Pam

  This paper explores the overlooked influence of campus environment in community college attrition. It discusses the campus ecology perspective, which raises awareness that the myriad of mutually...

December 2004

• Editor's Choice: Post-Testing in Developmental Education: A Success Story
  December 22, 2004; Hodges, Dawn Z.;Kennedy, Nichole H.

  Georgia's technical colleges and state university system have entered into an agreement that guarantees that five courses will transfer from technical colleges to the university system colleges....
• Funding Models of Community Colleges in 10 Midwest States
  December 22, 2004; Kenton, Carol Piper;Schuh, John H.;Huba, Mary E.;Shelley, Mack C., II

  The extent to which community colleges in 10 Midwest states relied on 12 current funds revenue sources between 1990 and 2000 is presented in this study. Four models of funding were identified and...
• The Motivations of First-Semester Hispanic Two-Year College Students
  December 22, 2004; Santos, Minerva

  In this study, the researcher developed an instrument to assess college attendance motivations in order to assess the motivations of 179 entering Hispanic freshmen and to explore the relationship...
• UCLA Community College Review: Community Education in the Community College
  December 22, 2004; Wang, Wei-ni

  This article begins by reviewing the development of community education in two-year colleges. It focuses on the five major types of community education programs: adult education, continuing...

September 2004

• Influence of a Community College Developmental Education Writing Course on Academic Performance
  September 22, 2004; Crews, Denise M.;Aragon, Steven R.

  According to Cohen and Brawer (1996), the increasing number of students leaving community colleges has influenced the expansion of retention initiatives. These initiatives include forming...
• Measuring the Effectiveness of Developmental Writing Courses
  September 22, 2004; Southard, Anne Hay;Clay, Jennifer K.

  The community college is the only academic safety net for underprepared students seeking a college education, and the number of developmental students continues to grow for several reasons....
• New Rural Community College Faculty Members and Job Satisfaction
  September 22, 2004; Murray, John P.;Cunningham, Sean

  What Charles Dickens said of the times leading up to the French Revolution could be said of the impending turnover of college faculty and administrators: "It was the best of times; it was the...
• UCLA Community College Review: Academic Literacy for English Language Learners
  September 22, 2004; Curry, Mary Jane

  Immigration to the United States has sharply increased in the past 30 years; between 1970 and 2000, the percentage of foreign-born people doubled to 10% of the overall U.S. population (Szelenyi...

June 2004

• A Comparison of Access to the Internet and Use of the Web for Instruction: A National Study of Full-Time and Part-Time Community College Faculty
  June 22, 2004; Akroyd, Duane;Jaeger, Audrey;Jackowski, Melissa;Jones, Logan C.

  This research explored the issues of access to the internet and use of the web for instructional purposes between full-time and part-time community college faculty. The findings that 40% of...
• Looking for Signs of Community College Arts and Sciences Faculty Professionalization in Searches: An Alternative Approach to a Vexing Question
  June 22, 2004; Twombly, Susan B.

  To explore professionalization of community college faculty, this study uses data from case studies of searches for full-time arts and sciences community college faculty. The author concludes...
• UCLA Community College Review: Community College Scholarship and Discourse
  June 22, 2004; Kelly-Kleese, Christine

  This review discusses the concept of the two-year college as a separate discourse community within the larger discourse community of higher education. The article offers a complete definition and...
• Understanding Students' Parental Education beyond First-Generation Status
  June 22, 2004; Lee, Jenny J.;Sax, Linda J.;Kim, Karen A.;Hagedorn, Linda S.

  The goal of this study is to explore and compare the experiences and views that community college students face across multiple levels of parental education. The findings demonstrate significant...

March 2004

• A practical guide for integrating civic responsibility into the curriculum.(Book Review)
  March 22, 2004; Thornton, Courtney H.

  A practical guide for integrating civic responsibility into the curriculum by Gottlieb, K., & Robinson, G. (Eds.). Washington, DC: Community College Press, 2002. 86 pages. $15 (AACC...
• Editor's Choice: An Assessment of the Association of California Community College Administrators Mentor Program
  March 22, 2004; Valeau, Edward J.;Boggs, George R.

  Since 1988, the Association of California Community College Administrators (ACCCA) has sponsored a statewide mentor program intended to prepare junior-level administrators for senior positions...
• Epistemic Beliefs of Teachers in Technology-Rich Community College Technical Education Programs
  March 22, 2004; Dirkx, John M.;Kielbaso, Gloria;Smith, Regina O.

  Dramatic changes in the nature of work and its organization emphasize the need for workers to address complex and ill-structured problems and to produce knowledge useful in the workplace....
• Gender Differences in the Preparation and Promotion of Community College Administrators
  March 22, 2004; VanDerLinden, Kim E.

  This study addresses the career advancement of community college administrators, with particular attention to the relationships between gender, human capital, and promotion. The findings indicate...
• UCLA Community College Review: Performance Indicators and Performance-Based Funding in Community Colleges
  March 22, 2004; Zarkesh, Maryam;Beas, Allison Marcela

  This review explores the context in which performance indicators and performance-based funding in community colleges have emerged as a means of measuring institutional effectiveness in community...

December 2003

• Correction.(Correction Notice)
  December 22, 2003; Donahue, John

  The fall 2003 issue (Volume 31, No. 2) contained an error on page 46. The state for Moraine Valley Community College was incorrectly listed in the author listing for John Donahue. The correct...
• Editor's Choice: Becoming Student Centered Via the One-Stop Shop Initiative: A Case Study of Onondaga Community College *
  December 22, 2003; Walters, Evon Washington

  The article provides a blueprint of how a mid-sized community college in the midst of coping with increasing enrollment and scarce resources was able to improve dramatically its services to new...
• Help Wanted: Preparing Community College Leaders in a New Century (New Directions for Community Colleges Series, No. 123)
  December 22, 2003; Sullivan, Leila Gonzalez

  by William E. Piland and David B. Wolf. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2003. 114 pages. ISBN 0194-3081. Reviewed by Leila Gonzalez Sullivan. In response to a nationwide sense of crisis in...
• Stress Factors End Community College Deans: The Stresses of Their Role Identified
  December 22, 2003; Wild, Linda L.;Ebbers, Larry H.;Shelley, Mack C.;Gmelch, Walter H.

  Community college deans responded to a national survey about their perception of stress, using a 41-item stress inventory. Using principal components factor analysis, nine stress factors were...
• The Influence of the Rural Community College Initiative on Increasing Civic Capacity in Distressed Rural Communities
  December 22, 2003; Jensen, Jane McEldowney

  This article discusses the influence of the Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI) on the development of civic capacity in distressed rural communities. RCCI was a demonstration project funded...
• UCLA Community College Review: Community College Partnerships with the Private Sector-Organizational Contexts and Models for Successful Collaboration
  December 22, 2003; Kisker, Carrie B.;Carducci, Rozana

  Community college partnerships with the private sector have grown in significance in the past 15 years due to state budget shortfalls, evolving labor requirements, the need to provide a...

September 2003

• A Case Study of Select Illinois Community College Board Chair Perspectives on Their Leadership Role
  September 22, 2003; Donahue, John

  The leadership perspectives of three community college board chairs were examined in a multiple-case study. Qualitative data were collected and analyzed. The themes of facilitation,...
• Building a System of Autonomous Institutions: Coordination and Collaboration in British Columbia's Community College, University College, and Institute System
  September 22, 2003; Gaber, Devron A.

  This study explores the historical development of British Columbia's community college, university college, and institute system with the focus on voluntary collaboration in relation to...
• ERIC Review: The Impact of Financial Crises on Access and Support Services in Community Colleges
  September 22, 2003; Sheldon, Caroline Q.

  This review discusses the impact of fiscal contraction on community colleges. It explores how reduced state appropriations have adversely affected community college instruction and student...
• Learning to Lead: a Handbook for Postsecondary Administrators.(Book Review)
  September 22, 2003; Downey, John A.

  by James R. Davis. Westport, CT: American Council on Education and Praeger Publishers, 2003. 249 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by John A. Downey. Community college administrators can finally...
• Net Effects of Institutional Type on Baccalaureate Degree Attainment of "Traditional" Students
  September 22, 2003; Christie, Ray L.;Hutcheson, Philo

  This study explores the net effects of institutional type on degree attainment. The literature suggests that two-year college matriculants are much less likely to earn a baccalaureate degree than...
• The Role of the Community College in Teacher Education (New Directions for Community Colleges Series No. 121).(Book Review)
  September 22, 2003; Jaeger, Audrey J.

  by Barbara K. Townsend and Jan M. Ignash. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, 2003, 113 pages, $28, softcover, ISBN 0194-3081. Reviewed by Audrey J. Jaeger. Teacher shortages across the nation...

June 2003

• An Examination of Student Cheating in the Two-Year College
  June 22, 2003; Smyth, M. Lynnette;Davis, James R.

  This study statistically analyzes the experiences of two-year college students with cheating, the predominant unethical student behavior in the college environment. Males in this survey are more...
• Demographic Risk Factors, Study Patterns, End Campus Involvement as Related to Student Success among Guilford Technical Community College Students
  June 22, 2003; Schmid, Carol;Abell, Patricia

  The educational literature suggests that certain demographic characteristics are more likely to put community college students at risk of not attaining a degree or program completion than their...
• Editor's Choice: The Worklife of Student Service Professionals at Rural Community Colleges *
  June 22, 2003; Hirt, Joan B.;Esteban, Ron;McGuire, Lisa

  The literature on community colleges focuses extensively on students, faculty members and the top leadership. Noticeably absent are studies about administrators such as those who provide services...
• ERIC Review: Understanding the Relationships between Proprietary Schools and Community Colleges: Findings from Recent Literature
  June 22, 2003; Outcalt, Charles L.;Schirmer, James E.

  This review explores the recent literature on proprietary schools. It examines the characteristics of proprietary schools and the distinctions between proprietary schools and community colleges....

March 2003

• Community and Diversity in Urban Community Colleges: Coursetaking among Entering Students
  March 22, 2003; Maxwell, William;Hagedorn, Linda Serra;Cypers, Scott;Moon, Hye S.;Brocato, Phillip;Wahl, Kelly;Prather, George

  Classrooms and curriculum are increasingly recognized as uniquely significant for student success. Due to high attrition rates, especially in urban community colleges, the first semester of study...

December 2002

• Community College Mentoring: Minority Student Perception
  December 22, 2002; Pope, Myron L.

  The ethnic and cultural landscape of the American community college is becoming increasingly diverse. The U. S. Census Bureau reported that 42.3% of African Americans in higher education are in...
• Correction.(Correction Notice)
  December 22, 2002

  The fall 2002 issue (Volume 30, No. 2) contained an error on page 9. Table 5 was reproduced incorrectly. The correct table is shown below. The editor and managing editor apologize to our...
• Democratic Leadership and Faculty Empowerment at the Community College: A Theoretical Model for the Department Chair
  December 22, 2002; McArthur, Ronald C.

  When I first became the chair of our department in 1998, I immediately realized that being a chair would be very different from what I had experienced in the military or from what one would...
• ERIC Review: Learning Communities at the Community College
  December 22, 2002; Minkler, James E.

  Beginning in the early 1990s, learning communities (LCs)--deliberate restructuring of the curriculum to build a community of learners among students and faculty (Smith & Hunter,...
• Mission Priorities of Community Colleges in the Southern United States
  December 22, 2002; Ayers, David F.

  Since their inception, community colleges have existed to identify and respond to the educational needs of adult learners within a specified service area (Cohen & Brawer, 1996; Vaughan,...

September 2002

• Editor's Choice: Measuring Outcomes: Is the First-Time, Full-Time Cohort Appropriate for the Community College?
  September 22, 2002; Dellow, Donald A.;Romano, Richard M.

  At least until the early 1980s, the most important measure of the quality of institutions of higher education had more to do with the inputs that went into the educational process than the...
• Eric Review: Educating Immigrants: The Community College Role
  September 22, 2002; Szelenyi, Katalin;Chang, June C.

  At the beginning of the twenty-first century, immigration to the United States continues to be a powerful force shaping the country's population counts and ethnic composition. According to the...
• Next Steps for the Community College.(Book Review)
  September 22, 2002; Holt, Helen

  edited by Trudy H. Bets and Harriot D. Calhoun. San Fransisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002. 155 pages, $28. Editors Trudy Bets and Harriott Calhoun have assembled a useful collection of topical...
• Professional Development for Presidents: A Study of Community and Technical College Presidents in Three States
  September 22, 2002; Wallin, Desna L.

  Introduction and Background In an era where the diminishing supply of qualified leaders has been well documented (Shults, 2001; Campbell, 2002) at the same time that the complexity and...
• The Managerial Roles of Public Community College Chief Academic Officers
  September 22, 2002; Anderson, Philip;Murray, John P.;Olivarez, Arturo, Jr.

  The position of Chief Academic Officer (CAO) at a community college is of critical importance to the success of the mission of the institution. Some scholars have suggested that the position is...

June 2002

• Community College Leadership Preparation: Needs, Perceptions, and Recommendations
  June 22, 2002; Brown, Linda Carol;Martinez, Mario;Daniel, David

  This research provides the results of a random survey, administered in 2001, of 128 community college instructional leaders. Respondents rated 48 skills and areas of expertise in effectively...
• ERIC Review: Exploring the Meaning of "Nontraditional" at the Community College
  June 22, 2002; Kim, Karen A.

  This review of literature raises the issue of whether the term nontraditional is too broad to be helpful in identifying specific student needs at a community college because of the number of...
• The Location of Developmental Education in Community Colleges: A Discussion of the Merits of Mainstreaming vs. Centralization
  June 22, 2002; Perin, Dolores

  This study compares mainstreaming and centralizaton, two ways in which community colleges organize developmental education. Based on previous literature, the two models are compared in terms of...
• Using Segmentation Modeling to Predict Graduation at a Two-Year Technical College
  June 22, 2002; Hyers, Albert D.;Zimmerman, Allen

  This article reports the results of a longitudinal study of graduation rates at a two-year technical college where students enroll in an Associate of Applied Science terminal-degree program....

March 2002

• ERIC Review: Issues in Developmental Education
  March 22, 2002; Kozeracki, Carol A.

  In recent years, much public attention has been paid to the issue of developmental education. A 1996 report released by the Department of Education revealed that 41% of first-time community...
• Faculty Development in SACS-Accredited Community Colleges
  March 22, 2002; Murray, John P.

  Community college leaders have historically placed importance on faculty development for a number of reasons. First, community colleges have struggled with the changing demographics that have...
• Identification and assessment of community college peer institution selection systems.(Abstract)
  March 22, 2002; Hurley, Rodney G.

  Introduction Institutional effectiveness criteria, accountability measures, and performance standards drive the determination of methods for answering the question "How well are we doing...
• The Legislative Evolution of Performance Funding in the North Carolina Community College System
  March 22, 2002; Harbour, Clifford P.

  Introduction The use of performance-based allocations in higher education has increased dramatically over the past five years (Burke & Minassians, 2001). In 1997, 24 states considered...
• Using Survey and Focus Group Research to Learn about Parents' Roles in the Community College Choice Process
  March 22, 2002; Bers, Trudy H.;Galowich, Pamela M.

  Introduction Background and Purpose Colleges and universities continually seek new approaches to recruiting students and creating new linkages with parents, who generally play an...

December 2001

• A Comparison of Learning Outcomes for Dual-Enrollment Mathematics Students Taught by High School Teachers versus College Faculty
  December 22, 2001; Hebert, Laura

  Dual enrollment allows students to earn college credit while concurrently enrolled in high school. Transferability of the credit is key concern, as some institutions discriminate between credits...
• Eric Review: Community College Students: Recent Findings and Trends
  December 22, 2001; Bryant, Alyssa N.

  Recent shifts in student composition have shaped and will shape community college mission and policies. Community college faculty and administrators should be aware of enrollment shifts, changing...
• Globalizing the Community College: Strategies for Change in the Twenty-First Century. (Book Reviews).
  December 22, 2001; Zeszotarski, Paula

  Globalizing the Community College: Strategies for Change in the Twenty-First Century by John S. Levin. Palgrave, New York, NY. 2001, 248 pages. $35, hardcover, ISBN 0-312-23906-8. Reviewed by...
• Innovative Linkages: Two Urban Community Colleges and an Elite Private Liberal Arts College
  December 22, 2001; Morphew, Christopher C.;Twombly, Susan B.;Wolf-Wendel, Lisa E.

  This paper reports on the result of two case studies of innovative transfer agreements between urban community colleges and an elite private women's college. Transfer agreements between...
• What Influences Student Persistence at Two-Year Colleges?
  December 22, 2001; Cofer, James;Somers, Patricia

  The Higher Education Act of 1992 increased the availability of student loan funds dramatically. Using the National Student Postsecondary Aid Study, this study examines the difference in effects...

September 2001

• A Lesson from the British Polytechnics for American Community Colleges
  September 22, 2001; Ward, Cynthia V. L.

  Even though the antecedents of American higher education can be traced to the ancient universities of England, the American system has moved beyond the original model. Community colleges,...
• Eric Review: Integrating Academic and Occupational Instruction
  September 22, 2001; Prentice, Carolyn M.

  "New vocationalism," the concept of integrating occupational and academic courses in order to enrich both liberal arts and vocational programs, attracted a great deal of attention during the...
• Opening the Door to the Baccalaureate Degree
  September 22, 2001; Walker, Kenneth P.

  Community colleges have made their mark by providing high-quality, open access to higher education. This democratization of learning has resulted in the development of nearly 1,200 community and...
• Redefining the Community College Transfer Mission
  September 22, 2001; Townsend, Barbara K.

  Current patterns of student transfer from and to the community college need to be considered in examining the community college transfer mission. These patterns demonstrate that two sets of...
• Students' Perceptions of Constructivist Learning in a Community College American History II Survey Course
  September 22, 2001; Maypole, Joanne;Davies, Timothy Gray

  In constructivist teaching all learning is filtered through the learner's lens of reality. This qualitative study explored community college students' perceptions of constructivism applied in an...
• Undocumented and Documented International Students: A Comparative Study of Their Academic Performance
  September 22, 2001; Dozier, Sandra Bygrave

  Researchers on international students focus on F1s, or documented students. These students are characterized as high achievers with excellent academic skills. One group of international students,...

June 2001

• An Assessment of the Community College's Influence on the Relative Economic Development of a County
  June 22, 2001; Pennington, Kevin L.;Pittman, Robert B.;Hurley, J. Casey

  Abstracts The study investigated the impact of establishing a community college upon a county's relative economic development. Census data from 1940 through 1990 were used in graphical...
• Business Faculty Recruitment: The Effects of Full-Time versus Part-Time Employment
  June 22, 2001; Winter, Paul A.;Kjorlien, Chad L.

  Abstracts This study addressed faculty recruitment for community colleges, an issue of immediate importance because many faculty hired during the enrollment boom of the 1960's are retiring....
• Community Colleges as Cultural Texts: Qualitative Explorations of Organizational and Student Culture.(Review)
  June 22, 2001; Harbour, Clifford P.

  Community Colleges as Cultural Texts: Qualitative Explorations of Organizational and Student Culture edited by Kathleen M. Shaw, James R. Valadez, and Robert A. Rhoads. State University of New...
• Editor's Choice: An Open Memo to Community College Faculty and Administrators
  June 22, 2001; Kelly-Kleese, Christine

  Abstracts To maintain a strong presence with higher education, the community college should consider itself a discourse community, a concept that borrows from "speech community." Understanding...
• ERIC Review: Issues in Global Education Initiatives in the Community College
  June 22, 2001; Zeszotarski, Paula

  Abstracts This review of literature examines the impact of globablization on the community college missions and the expected competencies that students should acquire from a community college...
• Informal Student-Faculty Interaction: Its Relationship to Educational Gains in Science and Mathematics among Community College Students
  June 22, 2001; Thompson, Michael D.

  Abstracts The central purpose of this study was to examine the connection between informal student-faculty interaction, the perceived quality of effort asserted in science courses, and...

March 2001

• Editor's Choice: The Efficacy of Service-Learning for Community College ESL Students
  March 22, 2001; Elwell, Marlene D.;Bean, Martha S.

  Higher education has been criticized for failing to address meaningful environmental, economic, and social problems as well as failing to prepare college graduates to meet the rigors of socially...
• ERIC Review: The Role of Community Colleges in Training Tomorrow's School Teachers
  March 22, 2001; Gerdeman, R. Dean

  Over the next 10 years, the U.S. will be facing a shortage of elementary and secondary teachers. In 1997, Secretary of Education Richard Riley estimated that schools will need to hire 2 million...
• Managing Colleges and Universities: Issues for Leadership.(Review)
  March 22, 2001; Oromaner, Mark

  Managing Colleges and Universities: Issues for Leadership edited by Allan M. Hoffman and Randal W. Summers. Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Connecticut. 2000, 221 pages. ISBN:0-89789-645-9. Reviewed...
• Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education.(Review)
  March 22, 2001; Dollar, David L.

  Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education edited by Rim Dunn and Shirley A. Griggs. Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Connecticut, 2000, 269 pages, $64.50, Hardcover, ISBN:...
• The Career Lines of Chief Academic Officers in Public Community Colleges
  March 22, 2001; Cejda, Brent D.;McKenney, Cynthia B.;Burley, Hansel

  Administrative careers in higher education have typically been examined from two perspectives: individual and structural. The vast majority of these studies are from the individual orientation...
• The Impact of Community Colleges on the School-to-Work Transition: A Multilevel Analysis
  March 22, 2001; Mobley, Catherine

  In the past several decades scholars have expressed increasing concern about the school-to-work transition at all levels of education (William T. Grant Foundation 1988; Commission on the Skills...

December 2000

• Editor's Choice: Caring, Community, and Transcendance-Developing Spirit to Improve Learning
  December 22, 2000; Smith, Myrna J.

  Fortunately, American colleges and universities have escaped the school violence carried out in Arkansas, Oregon, and Colorado in 1998 and 1999. Institutions of higher education, influenced by...
• ERIC Review: What Community Colleges Should Do to Assist First-Generation Students
  December 22, 2000; McConnell, Penny J.

  In the years since World War II, institutions of higher education have been called upon to educate an increasing number of diverse students with a wide variety of backgrounds and needs. From 1984...
• Evaluating State-Level Articulation Agreement According to Good Practice
  December 22, 2000; Ignash, Jan M.;Townsend, Barbara K.

  As we move into the twenty-first century, transfer between two- and four-year colleges has become increasingly important. Many states are promoting transfer between two- and four-year sectors to...
• From Theory to Practice: Implementing a State-Level Comparator-Based Finding Request and Allocation Model
  December 22, 2000; Henry, Thomas C.

  Community colleges have become among the most popular public higher education institutions in the nation to provide transfer, technical, developmental, business and industry, and community...
• Submitting Manuscripts
  December 22, 2000

  The Community College Review, a quarterly academic journal dedicated to community college education, publishes manuscripts from scholars and practitioners who would like to present their research...
• The Propensity of Community College Chief Academic Officers to Leave an Institution
  December 22, 2000; Murray, John P.;Murray, Judy I.;Summar, Cliff

  The study described in this report was designed to measure the propensity of community college chief academic officers (CAOs) to leave their current position and college, the levels of...

September 2000

• Community Colleges under the Microscope: An Analysis of Performance Predictors for Native and Transfer Students
  September 22, 2000; Carlan, Philip E.;Byxbe, Ferris R.

  Stratified random samples of native and transfer students at a university were compared based on data extracted from student transcripts for 1989, 1990, and 1991. Transfers' first-semester GPAs...
• Critical Academic Skills for Kansas Community College Graduates: A Delphi Study
  September 22, 2000; Larzon, Elizabeth;Wissman, Janice R.

  A three-round Delphi survey was used to gain consensus among 23 community college administrators and faculty representing 19 community colleges in Kansas. First-round participants defined 199...
• ERIC Review: Community College Teaching-Toward Collegiality and Community
  September 22, 2000; Outcalt, Charles L.

  This review of the literature focuses on community college faculty and their teaching practices. After summarizing faculty demographic changes since the 1970s, the author describes both obstacles...
• Evaluating, Improving, and Judging Faculty Performance in Two-Year Colleges.(Review)
  September 22, 2000; Murray, John P.

  Evaluating, Improving, and Judging Faculty Performance in Two-Year Colleges by Richard I. Miller, Charles Finley, and Candace Shedd Vancko. Bergin & Gravey, Westport, Connecticut. 2000, 181...
• Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web.(Review)
  September 22, 2000; Williams, Saundra Wall

  Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web by Judith Boettcher and Rita-Marie Conrad. League for Innovation in the Community College, Mission Viejo, California...
• The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe.(Review)
  September 22, 2000; Davis, Frances A.

  The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe edited by Dick Raspa and Dane Ward. American Library Association, Chicago, Illinois. 2000, 158...
• The Revised Institution: The Community College Mission at the End of the Twentieth Century
  September 22, 2000; Levin, John S.

  Seven urban and rural community colleges in the United States and Canada were examined using a qualitative multiple-case-study design to define changes in the colleges' institutional missions...

June 2000

• Are We Marginalized within Academe? Perceptions of Two-Year College Faculty
  June 22, 2000; Townsend, Barbara K.;LaPaglia, Nancy

  A sample of 311 faculty at seven community colleges completed survey questions that elicited their ratings of statements about four-year faculty attitudes toward two-year college faculty and...
• Career Stages of Community College Faculty: A Qualitative Analysis of Their Career Paths, Roles, and Development
  June 22, 2000; Fugate, Amy L.;Amey, Marilyn J.

  Twenty-two faculty at a Midwestern community college were interviewed to elicit their perceptions of their career paths, their early-stage career roles, and the role played by faculty development...
• Community College Faculty Recruitment: Predictors of Applicant Attraction to Faculty Positions
  June 22, 2000; Winter, Paul A.;Kjorlien, Chad L.

  Each of 176 MBA program students provided biographical data and rated his or her reactions to one of four different simulated position ads for a community college business faculty position. Ads...
• Editor's Choice: Valuing Diversity-Student-Teacher Relationships That Enhance Achievement
  June 22, 2000; Jacobson, Linda Olson

  Based on experience as a developmental writing teacher, the author describes strategies for promoting student success within diverse groups of learners. After discussing how teachers can...
• ERIC Review: An Examination of Non-Liberal-Arts Course Transferability in California
  June 22, 2000; Striplin, Jenny Castruita

  Course catalogs and class schedules were examined from all 26 community colleges in California to determine the extent of non-liberal-arts course transferability by subject area to the California...
• Five Perspectives on Teaching in Adult and Higher Education.(Review)
  June 22, 2000; Dollar, David L.

  Five Perspectives on Teaching in Adult and Higher Education by Daniel D. Pratt and Associates. Kreiger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. 1998, 289 pages, $32.50 Cloth, ISBN 0-89464-937-X....
• The Community College in the Twenty-First Century: A Systems Approach.(Review)
  June 22, 2000; Harbour, Clifford P.

  The Community College in the Twenty-First Century: A Systems Approach by Michael Scott Cain. University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland. 1999, 168 pages, $32.00, Cloth, ISBN 0-7618-1357-8....

March 2000

• Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom.(Review)
  March 22, 2000; Dollar, David L.

  Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt. Jossey-Bass Publishing, San Francisco, California. 1999, 206...
• Editors' Choice: Technology Refresh-A Multi-College Approach
  March 22, 2000; Spiwak, Rand

  The author describes a cooperative purchasing effort initiated by Florida community colleges and extended to all the state's postsecondary institutions that has resulted in some $33 million in...
• ERIC REVIEW: Service Learning in the Community College
  March 22, 2000; Kozeracki, Carol A.

  After presenting a comprehensive definition of service learning in postsecondary education, the author reviews the literature on service learning at community colleges. In addition to discussing...
• Faculty Computer Use and Training: Identifying Distinct Needs for Different Populations
  March 22, 2000; Dusick, Diane M.;Yildirim, Soner

  A quantitative survey directed at all faculty at a California urban community college yielded data from 117 faculty about computer use, competency, and attitudes toward using computers....
• Institutional Expenditure Patterns and the Facilitation of Mission
  March 22, 2000; Thompson, Michael D.;Riggs, Robert O.

  The authors examine the relationship between institutional spending patterns and performance funding standards at the 14 public community colleges in Tennessee, the first state to implement...
• Multiple Realities: Characteristics of Loan Defaulters at a Two-Year Public Institution
  March 22, 2000; Christman, Dana E.

  Data from the National Student Loan Data System and a college's student data base for cohort years 1993, 1994, and 1995 yielded descriptive statistics on 260 borrowers who defaulted on student...
• Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education.(Review)
  March 22, 2000; Harbour, Clifford P.

  Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education by Eugene Y. Lowe. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 1999, 206 pages. $29.95, Cloth, ISBN 0-691-00489-7. ...

December 1999

• A Comparison of Grading Patterns between Full- and Part-Time Humanities Faculty: A Preliminary Study
  December 22, 1999; McArthur, Ronald C.

  The author analyzed grades submitted over three consecutive spring semesters by 6 full-time and 12 part-time humanities faculty at a community college in New Jersey to determine if differences...
• A Qualitative Study of Women's Experiences in Community College Leadership Positions
  December 22, 1999; Tedrow, Barbara;Rhoads, Robert A.

  The authors present and analyze, qualitative data collected during interviews with 30 senior female administrators working at community colleges in the Midwest. Theoretical and inductively...
• Background Factors Common among Outstanding Community College Presidents
  December 22, 1999; McFarlin, Charles H.;Crittenden, Barbara J.;Ebbers, Larry H.

  A survey instrument requesting demographic and background information mailed to a population of 975 presidents of public two-year college elicited 718 responses. Based on peer selection, 622...
• Editors' Choice Mentoring: The Association of California Community Colleges Project
  December 22, 1999; Valeau, Edward J.

  The author describes a mentoring program developed by the Association of California Community Colleges to provide one-year mentoring experiences between veteran administrators and administrative...
• ERIC Review U.S. Community Colleges and China's Counterpart Institutions
  December 22, 1999; Kong, Xiangping;Gimmestad, Michael

  After providing an overview of the higher education sector in China, the authors discuss its challenges with a particular emphasis on the role played by junior colleges and vocational...
• Faculty Development in a National Sample of Community Colleges
  December 22, 1999; Murray, John P.

  The author defines the activities that distinguish successful development programs and describes a survey administered in 1998 to faculty development officers at 250 randomly selected community...
• Teaching and Learning Models for Community College Instruction.(Review)
  December 22, 1999; Tipton, Darren

  Teaching and Learning Models for Community College Instruction by Dale Maeder. Academic Publishing Service, Binghamton, NY. 1998, 364 pages, $31.50 (Paper) ISBN 8-891-80410-X. On-line...
• The Community College Presidency at the Millennium.(Review)
  December 22, 1999; Whitlow, H. Clay

  The Community College Presidency at the Millennium by George B. Vaughan and Iris M. Weisman. Community College Press, Washington, D.C. 1998, 173 pages. $26 AACC members or $33 nonmembers...
• Thinking about Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First-Year College and University Students.(Review)
  December 22, 1999; Dollar, David L.

  Thinking about Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First-Year College and University Students by Robert Leamnson. Stylus Publishing, Sterling, Virginia. 1999, 256 pages....

September 1999

• ERIC Review: Effective Elements of Developmental Reading and Writing Programs
  September 22, 1999; McCusker, Manuela

  The author summarizes the literature on developmental reading and writing programs by discussing strategies for addressing remedial needs and obstacles to remediation. Based on the review, the...
• Forces That Influence Late-Admitted Students
  September 22, 1999; Weiss, Dana Freer

  The author used orientational qualitative inquiry to capture advisors' perceptions of students who register late when they enroll in community college. The resulting profile of late-admits...
• Honored but Invisible: An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges.(Review)
  September 22, 1999; Steinberg, Steven K.

  Honored but Invisible: An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges by W. Norton Grubb and Associates. Routledge, New York. 1999, 392 pages, $24.99 (Paper) ISBN 0-415-92165-1, $75.00...
• Remedial Education and Student Attrition
  September 22, 1999; Hoyt, Jeff E.

  Data from entering student surveys for the fall 1993, 1994, and 1995 freshmen cohorts at Utah Valley State College and 1998 outcomes data from the college's student information system were...
• The Relationship between Environmental Conditions and Transfer Rates of Selected Rural Community Colleges: A Pilot Study
  September 22, 1999; Higgins, C. Steven;Katsinas, Stephen G.

  Defining external and internal environmental conditions as independent variables and institutional transfer rate as the dependent variable, the authors investigate the relationship between...
• Underprepared Community College Students: Implications of Attitudinal and Experiential Differences
  September 22, 1999; Grimes, Sue K.;David, Kelly C.

  Data from a freshman survey instrument (CIRP) completed by the 1992 entering cohort of 500 freshmen at a Florida community college and three-year outcomes data from the college's database were...

June 1999

• Community College Reverse Transfer Students: A Field Survey of a Nontraditional Student Group
  June 22, 1999; Winter, Paul A.;Harris, Michael R.

  Data from a 54-item survey directed at reverse transfer students in the University of Kentucky Community College System was analyzed based on responses from two subgroups: 734 completers (those...
• Editor's Choice: Lessons on Disability and the Rights of Students
  June 22, 1999; Treloar, Linda L.

  The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990 form the basis for this discussion of students with disabilities and the role played by community college faculty in...
• ERIC Review Faculty Evaluation: A Response to Competing Values
  June 22, 1999; Redmon, Kent D.

  The author reviews the literature on faculty evaluation to define how different purposes (formative and summative) and competing values (those of administrators and those of faculty) have...
• Interviewing to Hire Competent Community College Faculty
  June 22, 1999; Murray, John P.

  The author focuses on improving the interview process as a critical step in hiring new faculty who will thrive and prove to be effective in the community college environment. Necessary...
• Policy, Pedagogy, and Social Inequality: Community College Student Realities in Post-Industrial America.(Review)
  June 22, 1999; Oromaner, Mark

  Policy, Pedagogy, and Social Inequality: Community College Student Realities in Post-Industrial America by Penelope E. Herideen. Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Connecticut. 1998, 160 pages. ISBN ...
• The Role of the Community College in Baccalaureate Attainment at a Private Liberal Arts College
  June 22, 1999; Cejda, Brent D.

  Degree audits on 1,188 graduates of a private liberal arts college revealed that 49% had earned credit hours toward completing the baccalaureate at a community college. After defining the...

March 1999

• Distance Learners in Higher Education: Institutional Responses for Quality Outcomes.(Review)
  March 22, 1999; Weisman, Iris

  Distance Learners in Higher Education: Institutional Responses for Quality Outcomes edited by Chere Campbell Gibson. Atwood Publishing, Madison, Wisconsin. 1998, 156 pages. ISBN 1-891859-23-4. ...
• Editor's Choice: The Teaching Scholar and the Scholarly Teacher
  March 22, 1999; Hale, Pryor

  Drawing upon more than 25 years of experience teaching at a community college, the author describes how teaching and scholarship work together to create an educational experience for students: By...
• ERIC Review: Scholarship in the Community College System
  March 22, 1999; Ford, Clara V. P.

  The author reviews the literature on scholarship in community colleges, discusses the notable contributions that community college scholars make through research efforts such as action research,...
• Past Present, and Future Variations in Community College Organizational Structure
  March 22, 1999; Underwood, James C.;Hammons, James O.

  A survey directed at 135 community college presidents in 1991 elicited details about how their colleges were organized five years prior to 1991 and in 1991, as well as their preferred...
• Sexual Harassment Policies and Computer-Based Training
  March 22, 1999; Wellbrock, Richard D.

  After summarizing the concepts and legislation involved in the need for a well-stated sexual harassment policy in a community college environment, the author links computer-based training to...
• The Changing Role of Community College Faculty: Implications in the Literature
  March 22, 1999; Dickinson, Robyn

  After discussing major environmental forces for change in higher education, the author draws upon organizational theory to analyze the community college environment with a focus on faculty as the...
• The Importance of Being First: Unique Characteristics of First Generation Community College Students
  March 22, 1999; Inman, W. Elliot;Mayes, Larry

  A survey of 5,037 applicants to 12 colleges in the University of Kentucky Community College System revealed that first-generation enrollees came from a unique socioeconomic background, were...

December 1998

• Ethics in Higher Education: Case Studies for Regents
  December 22, 1998; Oromaner, Mark

  Ethics in Higher Education: Case Studies for Regents by Alexander B. Holmes. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 1996. 112 pages. $21.95. ISBN 0-8061-2857-7. Within the past year, the...
• Global Perceptions of the Community College
  December 22, 1998; Kintzer, Frederick C.;Bryant, Donald W.

  The authors trace and discuss changes in location between secondary and post-secondary educational systems based on the concept of short-cycle higher education. They extend this theme globally by...
• Institutional Effectiveness in Two-Year Colleges: The Southern Region of the United States
  December 22, 1998; Todd, Timothy S.;Baker, George A., III

  Using institutional effectiveness criteria established by the Southern Assocation of Colleges and Schools, the authors surveyed administrators and faculty at institutions granting associate's...
• The Transforming Leader: A Meta-Ethnographic Analysis
  December 22, 1998; Pielstick, C. Dean

  The author describes an analysis of the leadership literature conducted to identify the themes, patterns, and connections that define transformational leadership. Meta-ethnography is explained as...
• Transfer Shock in an Academic Discipline: The Relationship between Students' Majors and Their Academic Performance
  December 22, 1998; Cejda, Brent D.;Kaylor, Alice J.;Rewey, Kirsten L.

  The study described in this report involved associate's degree recipients who were traditional age and enrolled full-time at a two-year college before pursuing their same majors at a four-year...
• Women Faculty in Community Colleges: Investigating the Mystery
  December 22, 1998; Clark, Sandra L.

  The author reviews recent literature on women faculty in higher education and in two-year institutions specifically. Existing research indicates that despite their higher numbers in...

September 1998

• A Study of White, Black, and Hispanic Students' Transition to a Community College
  September 22, 1998; Weissman, Julie;Bulakowski, Carole;Jumisko, Marci

  Student transition from school or work to college is a complex and challenging process. Many experiences are common among first-time freshmen, such as confusion over the enrollment process,...
• Evaluating Placement and Developmental Studies Programs at a Technical Institute: Using ACT's Underprepared Student Follow-Up Report
  September 22, 1998; Hodges, Dawn Zoller

  Technical schools and community colleges serve very diverse student populations, many of whom are high-risk students underprepared for college studies (Wattenbarger & McLeod, 1988; Newman,...
• Honors Programs in Community Colleges: A Review of Recent Issues and Literature
  September 22, 1998; Byrne, Joseph P.

  This review of honors programs and their curricula in comprehensive community colleges is based upon an examination of prescriptive literature outlining such programs and on reports about a...
• In over Our Heads: Applying Kegan's Theory of Development to Community College Students
  September 22, 1998; Tinberg, Howard;Weisberger, Ronald

  An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. (Matt, 1995) While training increases the fund of knowledge, ...
• Supplemental Instruction, Learning Communities, and Students Studying Together
  September 22, 1998; Maxwell, William E.

  This study was designed to investigate the extent to which peer relations increased among students who participated in a modified program of supplemental instruction at a community college. Peer...

June 1998

• Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College.(Review)
  June 22, 1998; Kelly, Christine A.

  Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College by Howard B. Tinberg. National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Illinois. 1997, 95 pages. $19.95. ISBN 0-8141-0378-2 An...
• Learning Styles, Classroom Environment Preferences, Teaching Styles, and Remedial Course Outcomes for Underprepared Adults at a Two-Year College
  June 22, 1998; Miglietti, Cynthia L.;Strange, C. Carney

  Sixty-one adult (age 25 and over) and 95 traditional-age (ages 18 through 24) two-year college students responded to a battery of instruments (Adult Classroom Environment Scale, Adaptive Style...
• Sorting, Supporting, Connecting, and Transforming: Intervention Strategies for Students at Risk
  June 22, 1998; Perez, Leonor Xochitl

  The author reviews the literature on strategies for serving students considered to be at risk because they need assistance to succeed academically and socially at the college level. After...
• Teaching Writing in Community Colleges: A Situated View of How Adults Learn to Write in Computer-Based Writing Classrooms
  June 22, 1998; Hansman, Catherine A.;Wilson, Arthur L.

  Traditional models of writing focus on steps learners should take to produce writing without considering the learning context and its affect on the process. Proponents of situated cognition argue...
• The Two Doors to the Community College Presidency
  June 22, 1998; Moore, Dan W.

  This experience-based analysis of applying for, interviewing for, and attaining the community college presidency focuses on whether an applicant is an inside candidate (from the institution...
• Today's Transfer Students: Who Are They?
  June 22, 1998; Fredrickson, Janyth

  The author used statewide databases to examine a sample of students who transferred from North Carolina's community colleges to its public universities in 1993. Identified by social security...