Research Abstracts From the California Community College System

The California Community Colleges System has, in our opinion, really got its act together. We've been following and reading, via email from Willard Hom, a number of the "abstracts" that this system shares within itself. We have long wanted to share them here, but only just now realized that they are available to all on this website. Within the category "Strategic Planning" there are sub-categories for Accountability, Planning and Management, and Social Trends. The abstracts resource is explained by the system in these words:

In order to help researchers and staff in the community colleges, we (the Research & Planning Unit in the Technology, Research, & Information Services Division of the System Office) produce abstracts from a periodic review of publications (both electronic and paper media). These abstracts try to distill essential information from these publications that tend to be lengthy and esoteric in nature. To create broad and unfettered access to these abstracts, we have "deposited" them in the BiblioTrek information bank so that field staff and the public may "withdraw" them at no cost.