ABSTRACTS, SUMMER 2001 (Volume 29, no. 1)
- Business Faculty Recruitment: The Effects of Full-Time Versus Part-Time
Employment
- Winter and Kjorlien
(pp. 18-34)
This study addressed faculty recruitment or community colleges, an issue of immediate importance because many faculty hired during the enrollment boom of the 1960's are retiring. The design for this research was a factorial experiment involving a three-way analysis of variance. The participants (N=136) were randomly selected male (n=68) and female (n=68) business professionals completing the MBA degree. The participants role-played the part of applicants for business department faculty positions by rating jobs described in simulated recruitment advertisements. The ANOVA results indicated that both male and female business professionals preferred part-time rather than full-time teaching positions. Implications for recruitment practice and future research are discussed. - Informal Student-Faculty Interaction: Its Relationship to Educational Gains in Science and Mathematics Among Community College Students
- Thompson (pp. 35-57)
- The central purpose of this study was to examine the connection between informal student-faculty interaction, the perceived educational gains in science- and mathematics-based courses for community college students within the context of Pace's (1979) concept of social and academic involvement. Pace's "quality of effort" concept of social and academic involvement assumes that the effects of college on students' differential patterns of growth and development can be assessed through the efforts students expend in utilizing the resources provided by higher education institutions. A path analytic model is proposed for the present study operationalizing constructs developed from previous research on the positive influences of informal student-faculty interaction on students' academic acievement in science and mathematics. This examination tested the hypothesized model's applicability in the study of the disparity between men and women persisting in science- and mathematics-based majors.
- Editors' Choice: An Open Memo to Community College Faculty and Administrators
- Kelly-Kleese (pp. 58-64)
- 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 this concept is helpful in conceptualizing the nature of the community college in general, in increasing perceptions of community college communicative competence, and in moving its professionals into positions of legitimate power within the larger higher education discourse community.
- ERIC Review: Issues in Global Education Initiatives in the Community College
- Zeszotarski (pp. 65-77)
- This review of literature examines the impact of globalization on the community college missions and the expected competencies that students should acquire from a community college education. In the late 1990's, many community colleges began incorporating an awareness of globalization into strategic planning and curriculum planning and initiatives. The author presents a list of accepted competencies for the "globabally competent learner," and suggests additional competencies, which include a focus on the importance of intersection of language and culture, an understanding of the interconnectedness of the economy and the environment, and the development of a critical approach to media and communications. Finally, the author explores the link between multiculturalism and globalization as concepts that have been considered for integration into the community college curriculum and mission during the past decade.
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