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Documents

• Annual Reports to the Executive Board
  Annual report  (2006)
  Annual report  (2005)
  Area Committee Report and Review Board Comments (2004) This document is currently at the AAPT website, but it may soon be replaced by the annual report for 2005.
   
• Guidelines for Two-Year College Physics Programs
  Over the past few years the committee and our community have  diligently worked  on revising the official AAPT guidelines for TYC Physics Programs. This effort was  led by editor William Hogan. The new guidelines have been reviewed by the AAPT publications committee and accepted for publication by AAPT. Here is the final version:
            Guidelines for Two Year College Physics Programs
   
• SPIN-UP/TYC
  Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at Two-Year Colleges: The AAPT SPIN-UP/TYC initiative is the third project in a series since 1989 to tap the rich resources at two-year colleges to produce  an increase in the number of STEM majors, particularly physics majors, and a better understanding of the contributions of TYC programs to physics education. Click here to find a  variety of information related to this project  at the AAPT website.
  
  Download full report in PDF format
  
  Findings from the 2003 Background Survey of Two-Year College Physics Programs. A look at program priorities, recent curricular changes and student issues. (Supported by funding from the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation).
  Download PDF document
   
• Physics in the Two-Year Colleges: 2001-02
  Findings from the 2001-02 Survey of Two-Year College Physics Programs. An updated look at program size; faculty background and current appointment; faculty turnover, including retirements and new hiring; and physics course offerings.
  View Highlights (HTML)    Download highlights (PDF)    Download Full Report (PDF)
   
• Two Year Colleges in the Twenty-First Century: Breaking down Barriers (TYC21)
  Link to full report (PDF)
   
• A Vision For Tomorrow: The Two Year College in the Twenty-First Century
  Proceedings April 9-11, 199 Fort Worth, Texas (PDF)
   
• Some documents generated by the TYC21 program are archived here. Here are the three TYC21 White Papers:
            TYC21 White Paper - The TYC21 Networking Model
            TYC21 White Paper - The TYC21 Isolation Study
            TYC21 White Paper - Critical Issues in Two Year Colleges
   
• Other committee documents found here include the committees contribution to the official AAPT response to the "Shaping the Future" report:
            Response to the Shaping the Future Report
   
• Archived Newsletters
  TYC Newsletter Summer, 1993.      TYC Newsletter Winter 1993-94          
   

Credits: The material found on these pages is courtesy of their authors, the AAPT-CPTYC , the AAPT and the American Institute of Physics (AIP).

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