We will study their concerns, and I think you will see that many of the student-related problems they grappled with are with us today. Community college students . We'll study the wide-ranging characteristics, educational goals, and attendance patterns of community college students. You' ll have the opportunity to analyze data from a national survey of 100,880 students who were enrolled in community colleges during the fall of 1999. You'll leave the class with a good sense of who community college students are and how they use the institution to pursue varied educational goals.
Community colleges are open-access institutions.
We'll study what this means and examine matriculation processes. These processes entail testing of entering students to identify individuals who need remedial instruction before enrolling in college-level classes. Such testing is a key part of community college work with students. A guest speaker from Heartland Community College will describe the testing procedures used at his institution. Student transfer to four-year colleges.