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Creator:: Griffin, Kenneth Neil, 1924-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a pilot summer program of orientation, study skills and reading on the persistence and grade point average of first year junior college students. The pilot program was offered as a voluntary summer program between graduation from high school in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: that most students can benefit from this type of training (6). 19 Louis Di Lorenzo reported a

Creator:: Lindstrom, Eric L.
Abstract:: Community colleges are being pressured to increase their direct support of the economic development agendas of their communities, their states, and even the nation. These pressures develop both externally and internally, and are exacerbated when increased demands for access to community college education must be met with chronically flat-lined or...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: & Brawer, 1989, p. 256; Lorenzo, 1994, p. 117) as being part of the community service function of the

Creator:: Buck, Sharon Thompson
Abstract:: The founders of Cascadia Community College changed faculty role and duties as they designed a new college. The college founders chose which themes of learning reform would be enacted by faculty in this new setting. They determined what elements of traditional roles continued to be important and what new expectations...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the traditional focus of their classroom. The Learning College Lorenzo and LeCroy (1994) defined 10

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