Florida Community College Research Articles

A College Tells Its Story: An Oral History of Florida Community College at Jacksonville, 1963-1991. By Robert B. Gentry. Jacksonville: Florida Community College at Jacksonville, 1991. 537 pp. Hardbound, $15.00.

A College Tells Its Story: An Oral History of Florida Community College at Jacksonville, 1963-1991. By Robert B. Gentry. Jacksonville: Florida Community College at Jacksonville, 1991. 537 pp. Hardbound, $15.00.

Florida Community Colleges Meet the Challenge: Preparing Students for Minimum Competency Testing

Florida Community Colleges Meet the Challenge: Preparing Students for Minimum Competency Testing

DEMOGRAPHIC AND JOB SATISFACTION CHARACTERISTICS OF FLORIDA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY

The demographic and job satisfaction characteristics of Florida community college faculty were studied in Florida's 28 community colleges. A total of 1,116 faculty responded in the fall of 1977 to an instrument developed to measure faculty characteristics and attitudes. The results showed that the Florida faculty is a satisfied faculty with over 95% reporting that they were satisfied with community college work as a career and with 72% stating that they plan to stay in the community college field until they retire. Second, it was found that faculty participation in in‐service training programs had increased significantly since 1968. In 1977‐1978, 69% of the faculty reported participation in one or more in‐service programs while the 1968 percentage was 37%. It is concluded that periodic surveys in other community colleges and states similar to this one should provide useful information for the further development and improvement of community colleges.

Balancing state and local control in Florida's community colleges

AbstractMore financial support by state government for local community colleges need not result in additional state controls.

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: A STUDY IN AUDIENCE REACTION

ABSTRACT In the light of the Children's Television Workshop research‐guided productions of Sesame Street and The Electric Company, relatively inexpensive production styles such as camera in the back of a classroom and the simple studio set with the camera on the teacher have drawn harsh criticism. A theoretical basis for this criticism has been that the available audiovisual message capacity is not being used to its full potential, particularly the visual portion, in the simpler, teacher‐centred styles. Recent programming by TV College of the City Colleges of Chicago presented an opportunity to conduct an evaluation of two distinctly different instructional television production styles for adult open learning students. In this research a Miami‐Dade (Florida) Community College documentary film program which was part of the 30‐program series Man and Environment (ME) was compared with a program locally produced by TV College (TVC) which was broadcast back‐to‐back with the M&E program. This programing was p...

Governing a multicampus district

AbstractA multicampus college experiences special problems and tensions as a consequence of its sire, complexity, and the distances separating its units; the authors describe one system of governance that has evolved to meet the needs of a rapidly growing Florida community college.