Community Colleges [microform] : General Information and Resources
- Bib ID:
- 5577436
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges, Los Angeles, CA
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED377911
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995
- 4 p.
- Series:
- ERIC Digest.
- Summary:
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This digest offers general information about American community colleges and lists a variety of sources of additional information about these institutions. The digest provides the defining characteristics of community colleges and information on their curricula; statistics on enrollments and student characteristics; information on faculty characteristics; information on revenue sources; the names and addresses of nine organizations concerned with community college education; a list of periodicals focusing on community colleges; information on available Internet resources, including selected listservs, gophers, and usenet newsgroups; and a bibliography of 12 major publications on community colleges. The digest notes that: (1) there are 1,024 public community colleges and 445 private two-year institutions in the United States; (2) 42% of all first-time, full-time freshmen enroll in community colleges; (3) in fall 1991, credit course enrollment totaled 1.9 million full-time and 3.5 million part-time students nationally; (4) the average student age is 32 years, though the modal age is 19; (5) 57.5% of all community college students are women; (6) 72.2% of community college students are Caucasian, 9.2% are African-American, 8.3% are Hispanic, 4.5% are Asian, 1.1% are Native American, and approximately 1% are non-resident aliens; (7) approximately 46.7% of all minorities enrolled in higher education are attending two-year colleges; (8) community colleges employ 253,711 faculty, with 53.4% employed on a part-time basis and 64.9% holding a master's degree; (9) the average salary for faculty was $36,000 in 1992; (10) state appropriations accounted for 46% of the operating revenues in fall 1992, while tuition accounted for 20%; and (11) average charges for tuition in 1994 were $1,200 at public community colleges and $6,100 at private two-year colleges. (KP)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: RR93002003.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2065 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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