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Table of Contents
Reflections on Student Services
"...Community Colleges are Viewed Positively by Legislators"
"...Community Colleges are an Important Aspect to the Well-Being of California"
Three Key Issues for Community Colleges...
The Role of IR in Enrollment Management
Briefs & Abstracts
Putting Intersegmental Data Sharing to Work
Community College Pre-collegiate Research Across California
Pathways Through Algebra Project
Connected By 25
Student Insurance
Keenan & Associates
Welcome to Our Collaboration
Reframing

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Issue No. 9
Fall 2004

Conversations About Our Future

Table of Contents
Fall, 2004

Reflections on Student Services
An Interview with Chancellor Constance Carroll
By Margaret Gratton Turner

“…Community Colleges are Viewed Positively by Legislators”
An Interview with Senator Jack Scott
By Jeanne Hamilton, Ph.D.

“..Community Colleges are an important aspect to the well-being of California..”
An Interview with Lois Callahan, Chancellor Emeritus
By Patricia Griffin, Ph.D.

Three Key Issues for Community Colleges: the Changing Nature of Students, the Focus on Learning, and Preparing People for Leadership Roles
An Interview with Chancellor Peter Landsberger
By Yasmin Delahoussaye, Ed.D.

Research & Planning

The Role of IR in Enrollment Management
An Introduction to Strategic Enrollment Management and How One Community College is Using SEM During these Times of Constraint and Uncertainty
By Craig Hayward, Ph.D.

Briefs & Abstracts
A Review of Published Research & News
By Willard Hom

Putting Intersegmental Data Sharing to Work: How Cal- PASS Can Lead to Instructional Alignment Among Segments
A Statewide Initiative to Gather and Track Student Outcomes from K – 16
By Brad C. Phillips, Ph.D., William E. Piland, Ph.D., & Micah Jendian

Community College Pre-collegiate Research Across California: Findings, Implications, and the Future
Developing, Evaluating, and Improving Pre-collegiate Programs May Be the Single Most Difficult Curricular Issue Facing the California Community College System
By Robert M. Johnstone, Ph.D.

Pathways Through Algebra Project
Improving Student Success Rates in Elementary Algebra
By Ken Meehan, Ph.D. & Hal Huntsman

Connected by 25: Improving the Life Chances of the Country’s Most Vulnerable 14 – 25 Year Olds
More than 200,000 Youth Will Reach the Age of 25 Without Having Successfully Transitioned to Independent Adulthood
By Michael Wald, J.D. & Tia Martinez, J.D.

Other

Student Insurance
An Introduction to Our Sponsor
By Monique E. Palmieri

Domestic Partnerships: Benefit Issues
A Compliance Advisory from our Sponsor, Keenan & Associates
By Tim Crawford & Bob Schoenherr

Welcome to Our Collaboration
By Robert Gabriner, Co-editor

Reframing
By Sharon Donoff, Co-editor