Above all, we wish to thank the many instructors and deans whom we interviewed about their practices in community colleges and technical institutes. They were unfailingly generous with their time, with materials produced for courses and programs, and with their insights. Those who have been developing innovative approaches to teaching were especially informative: Their excitement and commitment were unmistakable, and their ideas provided the most important stimulus for this monograph. We regard this report as a distillation of these individuals' creativity, and any role it may play in furthering the integration of occupational and academic education at the postsecondary level should be attributed to these teachers and administrators.
While we interviewed too many individuals to thank individually, the following were especially helpful: Diana Metcalfe of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, who was a consistently reliable source of leads; Meryl Sussman and Roberta Matthews of LaGuardia Community College; Connie Pettingill, Cheryl Baraldi, and Gail Carberry of Springfield Technical Community College; Judy Sullivan of Southern Maine Technical College; and Susan Walling and David Massey of Bunker Hill Community College.
We also want to thank Liz Alpert of Hartnell College and the University of California at Santa Cruz, who carried out a round of interviews at an early stage of this research that formed the basis for our subsequent survey and interviews.
As always, the interpretations in this report are ours alone and do not represent the positions of either the National Center for Research in Vocational Education or its sponsor, the U.S. Department of Education.