Community Colleges

16 records
Title	Date	Abstract
Integrating industry-driven competencies in education and training through employer engagement	2011	This research paper describes partnership efforts between community colleges and employers, exploring models promoting curric...
The role of community colleges in state adult education systems, a national analysis	April 2004	This report (Working Paper #3) examines the structure of adult education in the United States with special attention to the r...
Forging new partnerships: adult & developmental education in community colleges	December 2004	This working paper examines nationally the relationship between developmental and adult education in community college settin...
Adult ESL and the community college	December 2004	This report (Working Paper #7) describes the role of community colleges in providing adult English as a second language (ESL)...
Passing the torch: strategies for innovation in community college ESL	February 26, 2007	This report provides an "in-depth look" at ESL program service in several community colleges across the nation, with a focus ...
To ensure America's future: building a national opportunity system for adults	February 9, 2005	This paper summarizes research on the connections between adult education and community colleges and proposed a National Oppo...
Building bridges to college and careers, contextualized basic skills programs at community colleges	January 2003	Central to a “career pathways model [that integrates education, training and work] is the development of connections…between ...
Pathways and outcomes: tracking ESL student performance, a longitudinal study of adult ESL service at City College of San Francisco	January 7, 2008	This report provides an "in-depth look" at adult ESL services at the City College of San Francisco, considered an exemplary p...
The Illinois community college system & adult education	July 2004	This report (Working Paper #5) examines various aspects of the relationship between adult education and literacy and communit...
Torchlights in ESL, five community college profiles	June 4, 2007	This report follows the recently published CAAL study, "Passing the Torch, Strategies for Innovation in Community College ESL...
Adult education & literacy and community colleges in Massachusetts	March 2004	This case study (Working Paper #2) examines the "role of community colleges in providing adult education services (ABE, ESL, ...
Adult education & literacy and community colleges in Kentucky	May 2004	This report (Working Paper #4) examines both the actual and potential relationship between adult education and community coll...
An examination of Latina/o transfer students in California's postsecondary institutions	May 2007	This brief, number 16 in the Latino Policy & Issues series, "examines the transfer function from community college to four-ye...
Oregon shines! Adult education & literacy in Oregon community colleges	October 2004	This report (Working Paper #6) examines the "the governance structure in Oregon; forms of collaboration among state and local...
Adult basic education & community colleges in five states	September 2003	This working paper was prepared as a part of a project to examine the role and potential of community colleges in adult educa...
Adult basic education & community colleges in five states: a report from the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS)	September 2003	CAAL commissioned this report by CASAS as part of the effort to build understanding and improve the role of community college...