ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the community college professoriate’s professional practices and attitudes via a national survey. The survey instrument consisted of a mailed questionnaire of approximately 200 hundred questions in eight pages. Approximately 75 percent of survey questions were exact or near-exact repetitions of questions asked on the 1975 survey. Most survey questions were designed to illuminate one or more of several analytical categories. To generate the institutional sample, the directory of the American Association of Community Colleges, the national association of which almost all community colleges are members, was obtained. A total sample of 150 colleges was sought for the study. A small number of colleges sent course schedules after late September; it was not possible to include these colleges in the study. Respondents were asked to complete the survey, then seal it in the envelope addressed to the Center for the Study of the Community Colleges, then seal this envelope in the envelope addressed to the on-campus facilitator.
