DOCCH=T RESUME D 21., 358 J.: 010 238 AUTHCE Jean, 74-:. Caamunitas: of Connecticut Com,zunity Colleges. INSTITUTION Connecticut iional Community Colleges, Hartford. Boari of Tr. *;ees. PUB 112,TE 3 Lt.:31 Y,OTE 577_ CIT Connunitas: -:T:_-rnal of Connectict Community ML , 1581 :DRS ,NICE PC _ P: ')ostage. DESC;:PTORS c it Bilingual Education; Cl_assroom :.nmEanizz.t: :allege Administration: -1Coliege _as-__racticz _:cliege Transfer Students; *Community F- ,a__les; Hispanic Americans: *Learning _:tence Student College Teaching Styles. Triqcm-letr:-; Two Year c":11ege: -ns Education EN :77 :RS Cznr,,,,-- 7 _iddieSeX COMMUni:r Cc -E C: va..et f c-cational issues end :echriuues are . essa! 71ctl.ty and students It the Connecticut co' & ill Ait-aion recalls the aust-e-ze Oeginnings of COP- :ty .1=). Mary-Jo Hewitt decries her tc :four- ea. .: :1.e. e after transfer.: olg mr,= MCC. foliowiig a pr:ea by ..3mes Cdilds, Peter J. Uliss,araus instructors to cake studLt.'s aware of tIe:Lr enthusiasm for zylbject matter, and 0ov:a Hirsc:lorn examines .he application of .7am7cations theory to the :lass.7-: environment. LeRoy Barnes descri,fes approach to sociology instation which involves students ii oae :.:anacement of common familT c,_sese James C:_leman presents a rationa._ for a humaLities calurse which recui= studentstoresearch archival materials. A= Garrett Robins=z imagines how BoolLer T.iasdington might have reacted tc South Central Community Colleges,Annual Psychology At Exhibit. Marge Manfred examines the impact of sentence-comti7ling efercises on students' writing Richard Dolliver uses plane trigonometry to illustrate the desi;n of a sundial.litammaTorres refutes popular misconceptions about bilingual education, an EduarAo J. Marti looks at the implicaticf,s for college administratoriLL .nherent in the growing number of Hispannz students. 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OM, ON )42-6 ittr. /primer 745 .14' r '4.I,\: ' -Y'-.. r,...,- H f Olvt4UNTEAS Journal of Connecticut CommunityColleges Editorial Board Paul Brown Norwalk Community College Ray Cacciatore Mattatuck Community College Elaine Folkers Asnuntuck Community College John Kuchla Quinnebaug Community College Elizabeth Marafino Tunxis Community College Ray Marafino Greater Hartford Cctmiunity College Madge Manfred Mohegan Community College Michael Monte Housatonic Cammunity College Margaret Owens Manchester Community College Kenneth Robinson South Central Community College Chris Bossing Northwestern Community College Editor Jean Smith Middlesex Community College )0 The greatest discovery in generation is tha- human by changing the i=er of their minds, can chanT- outer aspects of 4:7.eir 1_ Liam "I don't understand _t,"muse: a acar_emic from a prestic_i_ous four-year Conned._cut c 'My well- paid associates are groaning about =-hour s, student apathy, and being in a rut while ouz Comm ,mv Cc. Lege col- leagues seem to thrive on 50-hour wcrkwee e7-iL,ss community projects, and an incrediblerange of stu:ae 8 to 801 Are they crazy", or are we?" The year was 1975, the setting WaEALtncit_Jn,IlC., where for the first time, the National Scienc 7-7-nc;tic.1 was re- viewing grant applications from two-vear __ty Colleges. From that day to this, the comparison hay ck, in my mind and retained its vitality. In 1981, Community College staffs :--t7._.;gle with the same long hours, ever shrinking budg.=,s,lnd student bodies that grow more eclectic eachyear. Open s systems, like women and minority executives, must prove elves continu- ously dedicated and ever diligentto brea 7:reudicial stereotypes of a skeptical society. New onal frontiers are forged with enthusiasm and applied ze '2.1e ever said it was easy. They simply said it was posL Iconoclastic thinking turns mathema-. ir:rto Editors and Advisory Council Members into avidsu;i: Happy reading in Communitas. Nancy _I Zimmer Regio7 ivisory Council Middle,_Community College March _ 9E1 4 CONTENTS Page THIS :S A COLTRG7- hy Philip D. V:=1-1r7M, ?resident, Middlesex TRAN:7ER OF A NON-77 _-.)17D) UDENT 3 b: Mary-Jo He.Ti_t-L, 1979 Middlesex Car -^--it ALLEGATICNS OF =LT 5 by James Child, Middlesex Caffar: _ Col_ege ENTHUSIASTIC TEAC-TIN{ :LT THE l'a'MUNTITY COLLEGE CLASSROOV 6 by Peter Ulisse, Housatonic Corrnity College THE MOMKNT THAT COUNT 9 by Joyce Hirschor7, South Central Cc:Ininunity College THE NEED FOR FIRE -RILL SOCIOLOGY 12 by LeRoy Barnes Middlesex Cc=unity College CARTOON 16 by Jack L. Sche_l_-_Laman, Manchester C=m unity College THE IMAGINATIVE RE.7NSIRULILON OF THE PAST 17 by James Colema.r. tiohegan Com=ity College THE PSYCHOLOGY ART -TIBIT AND THE IMAGINARY TOUR HISTORICAL PERSONAGE 20 by Ann Garrett Ro':ison, South Central Comity College age TIM-ENE OOMB1E11; AND DUITUNTIY C--IFGE STUDENT _4 Marge Manfred, Mbhegan C7mmunity College D7----NING A SUNDIAL Richard Dolliver, Create,: Hartford Community Colleg C DST WORD PUZZLE 34 7 -7TION STAMIENT ON BILINGUAL EDUCATIITN 35 Dhnpna Torres, Housatonic Community College 3PANIC STUDENT INFLUENCE ON INSTITUTIONS ADMINISTRATORS DURING THE 1980's 37 ay Eduardo J. Marti, Middlesex Oannuaity College EXAMINATION OF FACTORS INFLUENCING DROPOUT 1-_N ADULT WOMEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS 42 by John H. Coggins, Middlesex Community College THLE IS A COLLEGE: 13: Phillip D. T,,,7heaton We always claime-7:- that Middlesex .:7mmunity College wasborn in a coffee pct. That 7,ms ::-_-2ause when President Fred Lowe, the founding father of Middlesex's pa-r- It college, IviEl-lester CommunityCollege, came to Middletown to c 'le doors of tr new branch, he besought along a coffee pot, whiL:n EilL2 has permitted us torecall as the first physical asset of the c.11__ege. That, of course. -:as not quite so. The Middletown Board of Education had donated little white house for administrative purposes. Somebody put a sign out E-ront, and someone had gone to a tagsale and got a couple of old desi!;s and chairs. But, in the beginning, the coffee pot sitting alone on e '._--)are floor was the only itemof significance that we remember,.tha and the grass outside that needed mowing. There were nc pencils, typewrittrs, xerox machines. There was no paper, and there k e no books,form., files, catalogs, or regula- tions. There was no ±aculty, no studenrs, no registrar,admissions, not even a Dean or ar athletic director. As the song goes, we had plenty of nothing. 1:Dt even committees or demonstrations. We counted our blessings. In seconds. We were so insignificant that theFUllerbrushman who stopped at the door asked to see the lady of thehouse. 'This is a college?" he asked dumbfounded. There were those that wou!.', :rave answered that questionwith a resounding no. It was a. branch now and would be forever. Be satisfied with a branch, we were told grudgingly. The state can do without yet another college. It soon became apparent to me that there werethose who were thinking otherwise. The local founders, the townspeople, the Press, talked about the college from the beginning. In short order, the mailman began-Elivering letters addressed to thePresident, various Deans, Department Chairpeople of MiddlesexCommunity College when there was only my secretary and myself on board. We even got mail for the Middlesex Community College AlumniAssociation and we hadn't even opened our doors! Somebody leaked the word to the federal government about our existence, and soon we werereceiving requests for all kinds of information about our studentsand faculty and staff that we couldn't possible answer. Salesmen came to the door to sell 1 us scientific equipment and computers. People phoned us to speak to all and sundry just as if we were a college in full bloom. It was as;: to forget our branch status. And then there were students who wanted to go to the college. As we sat in our spartan surroundings, we wondered andEoubted. How could anyone enroll in a college that did not exist? Talk about faith. We prayed for twenty-five and got fifty. We projected seventy -fire and soon there were a hundred and fifty. We didn't know the reasons, but God, it was exciting! We first had a feeling that we were a col age when a group of students gathered in the little white house to decide on an appropriate occasion for openers. No offense to Manchester, it was apparent they wanted to open their own college. We had no facilities and no money, and so an out-door backyard picnic was planned. We had our doubts. Where would the food come from for maybe two hundred people, and how would you prepare it when the only piece of equipment you had was President Lowe's coffee pot? Talk about feeding the multitudes! All day long the food came. Hot dogs and hamburgers by the gross from stores. A huge roast from the Father of one of the new students. Casseroles and salads from homes. And chips, pickles, watermelon and cakes. By five o'clock of that great day, we had food for five hundred. So taken were we with all of this, we did not notice the gathering of dark clouds in the sky, and a summer cloudburst drenched the picnickers twenty minutes after the picnec had begun.