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curriculum planning is the most important strategy for course management.
However, “curriculum planning” is also perceived as the most difficult course
management issue in community college (Table 6 ).
(3) From interactive point of view: The “considerate service” is the most important
strategy for course management. Teachers, with college degree, will tend to
perceive that considerate service is the most important strategy for course man-
agement. Teachers in city-type community college thought that the considerate
service could maintain the students select the courses stably. However, “in-
terpersonal communication” is the most time-consuming course management
strategy. The result reveals there are significant differences between the teachers
who come from different sizes of community colleges. Teachers belonging to
the school size with 11-30 classes thought that interpersonal communication
was the most time-consuming course management strategy.“Interpersonal com-
munication” also lets student keep register. The finding shows there are
significant differences between teachers with different blood types. Teachers
with O blood type thought that interpersonal communication could let students
keep register.

5 Conclusions

This study establishes the fuzzy decision system for better course management in
community college. We set up a rule-base of course supply and demand model for
the community college. According to results of the study, the meaningful findings
are listed as follows:

(1) Although the largest number of students elective life skill courses, the present
condition of curriculum status is supply exceeded demand in life skill classes
and demand exceeds supply in academic courses. Therefore, life skill classes
should reduce the course, academic courses should be promoted to increase the
courses to meet student request, and club classes are balanced in the state of
supply and demand.
(2) Moreover, “students' request” is the most important indicator for successful
classroom management that the teachers gave the highest recognition. Teachers
also believed that “teaching professional” was the secondary important indica-
tor for enhancing the course attraction.
(3) Teachers of life skill classes are very good at using interactive model of course
management, just like interpersonal communication and considerate service.
(4) Teachers of countryside-type schools thought that interpersonal communication
was the most time-consuming, but it can help keep students to join the class
stably.
In this study, the designed fuzzy decision system and the practical case study
may provide an example for better managing course demand and supply in
community college.