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Fuwey provides _perspective on college students Fact: Conestoga students were jobâ€"oriented. Empioyment was Nearly 75 per cent of the students who received questionnaires reâ€" sponded to a set of 88 questions about themselves, their backâ€" grounds. and their perceptions of the College and its programs. ‘‘Originally. our aim was to counteract assumptions about stuâ€" dents,"" said Johnstone. ‘"We wantâ€" ed to obtain factual data to provide a basis for better decisionâ€"makâ€" ing. Opinion: Community college stuâ€" dents take courses because they have nothing better to do. They‘re drifters Fact: Fourteen per cent of the respondents either were graduates of. or had taken courses at various colleges or universities. QQRUiCQ.. worthy of your confidence. Some of the results Johnstone and Cleminsonâ€"ebtained follow. Opinion: Community colleges atâ€" tract students from lower econoâ€" mic backgrounds. Students choose community colleges because they or their families can‘t afford a uniâ€" versity education for them Fact: Based on questions conâ€" cerning parental occupation and inâ€" come. the study showed an even distribution of students from upper. middle and lowerâ€"income origins. s Opinion: Community colleges cater to high school dropouts. HARRY ROSS HUEHN BRUBACHER Eighteen months ago, Bill Cleâ€" minson, a counsellor at the Colâ€" loge‘s Doon campus in Kitchener, and Geoff Johnstone, coâ€"ordinator of Conestoga‘s Social Services proâ€" gram, sent questionnaires to nearâ€" ly 3,900 fullâ€"time students at Conesâ€" toga‘s six campuses â€" Doon, Waâ€" terloo, Guelph, Stratford . Cambridge and Clinton. Who goes to a community colâ€" lege® A survey of students at midwesâ€" tern Ontario‘s Conestoga College dispels the notion that community colleges are nothing more than glorified high schools, the poor boys" of postâ€"secondary education If one believes many of the old myths about community colleges and the education they offer, they may be in for a surprise funeral home and chapel 621 KING WEST â€" 745â€"9495 Convenient Parking, entering Wellington or King Street a tradition since 1925. Patzâ€"~Bechtel Johnstone said the study gives a new perspective on the community college student: the picture of a sensible. mature student. who is concerned about content and quaâ€" lity of education,. about his or her economic and professional future. and about gaining practical skills The Conestoga survey was based on a similar project undertaken by St. Clair College in Windsor. That model was altered and refined with the advice of a committee of repreâ€" sentatives from each Conestoga campus. Those who formulated the St. Clair questionnaire also providâ€" ed input. Opinion: Instruction at comâ€" munity colleges is of poor quality. and the students couldn‘t care less about what and how they are taught. + Fact: The study revealed satisâ€" faction with the community college method of instruction. Over oneâ€" third indicated that they learned best from practical experience tlabs. field work. work projects) â€" the type of instruction community colleges stress. Also, an overâ€" whelming 85 per cent felt their voâ€" cational (program; choice was a good one. Fact: The survey certainly calls this belief into question. Seventeen per cent of the respondents indicatâ€" ed a willingness to relocate in Onâ€" tario, 18 per cent elsewhere in Canâ€" ada and 22 per cent anywhere at all to obtain employment in their fields of study Opinion: Even after finrshing a program. community college stuâ€" dents stay put. They don‘t want to go where the jobs are In fact. the concluding section of the study stressed ~Conestoga students are not in our buildings to keep the dull winds of February and unemployment at bay. The tyâ€" pical student makes a conscious choice about a career path he, she wants to pursue and then chooses a program that will efficiently enaâ€" ble him/{her to a thieve that goal. considered the primary educaâ€" tional goal by 76 per cent of the respondents, and 36 per cent were employed while enroiied at the Colâ€" lege. One in seven had worked in their field of study prior to enterâ€" ing Conestoga Mon.â€" Fri. 9:30 a.m. â€" 9:30 p.m. Sat. 9:30 a.m. â€" 6:00 p.m. Conestoga Mail 886â€"2789 !?N@_Pflwav and King St.) "StClair we really like your Style!" = _ StClair 44 . 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