A Survey of Community- and Small-College Astronomy Instruc- tors: Preliminary Results

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Dec 1996

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American Astronomical Society, 189th AAS Meeting, #05.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1277

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Estimates are that about 40-50% of the non-science students who take introductory astronomy in the U.S. do so at community (2-year) colleges. A further (to be determined) number do so at small colleges where research is not expec- ted of faculty. We report the preliminary results of a survey of full-time and part-time faculty at such institutions. Among topics covered are the fields of the instructors' highest degrees, the number and length of astronomy courses and labs they teach, the facilities that are available to them, their access to the Web and e-mail, and their budgets. Possible ways to reach this group of instructors (who have often been isolated from and somewhat neglected by the rest of the astronomical community) will be discussed.

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