The contradictory college : the conflicting origins, impacts, and futures of the community college /

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Annotation This book systematically analyzes the evidence on four key issues that have divided commentators on the community college: The community college's impact on students, business, and the universities; the factors behind its rise since 1900; the cause of its swift vocationalization afte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dougherty, Kevin James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994.
Colección:SUNY series, frontiers in education.
Temas:
Community colleges > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Higher education and state > United States.
Collèges communautaires > États-Unis.
Enseignement supérieur > Finalités > États-Unis.
Enseignement supérieur > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Community colleges
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Higher education and state
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
  • 1. The Community College's Importance and Controversiality
  • The Debate Over the Community College
  • The Aims of This Book
  • The Content of the Chapters
  • 2. The Debate Deepened
  • The Debate Over the Effects of the Community College
  • The Debate Over Why Community Colleges Were Established
  • The Debate Over Why Community Colleges Were Vocationalized
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • SECTION II: OUTCOMES
  • 3. The Community College's Impact on Students, the Economy, and the Universities
  • The Impact on Business and the Economy.
  • The Impact on the Elite State Universities
  • The Effect on Students
  • Access to Higher Education
  • Educational Attainment
  • Economic Attainment
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • 4. How Does the Community College Hinder Baccalaureate Attainment?
  • Attrition in the Freshman and Sophomore Years
  • Failure to Transfer to Four-Year Colleges
  • Attrition after Transfer
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • SECTION III: THE ORIGINS AND EXPANSION OF THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
  • 5. The Founding of Community Colleges: Introduction
  • The Stages of Community College Growth.
  • Studying the Founding of Community Colleges
  • Explaining Community College Expansion
  • 6. Local-Level Institution Building: The Centrality of Local Educators
  • Private Interest Group Pressure was not the Main Cause
  • The Key Role of Local School Officials and Other Educators
  • 7. State-Level Advocates: The Interests of Governors and State University Officials
  • How Involved Were Nongovernmental Actors?
  • Government Agencies and Officials Weigh In
  • 8. National-Level Reinforcement of Local and State Initiatives
  • The Limited Impact of Private Interest Group Pressure.
  • Governmental Initiative
  • 9. The Politics of Community College Founding: Summary and Conclusions
  • Convergences and Divergences with the Institutional Perspective
  • From Diverse Origins to Contradictory Effects
  • Explaining the Homogeneity of Community College Expansion
  • SECTION IV: THE ORIGINS OF OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION
  • 10. The Vocationalization of the Community College: Introduction
  • The Timing of Occupational-Education Development
  • Studying the Process of Vocationalization
  • Explaining the Expansion of Occupational Education.
  • 11. Local-Level Vocationalization: Community College Heads as Vocational Entrepreneurs
  • Business and Student Demand are an Insufficient Explanation
  • Community College Officials Take the Lead
  • 12. State Governors and Legislators Discover Occupational Education
  • Business and Student Pressure Are Not the Explanation
  • The Interest of Government Officials
  • 13. National-Level Support for Vocationalization
  • Governmental Initiative
  • The Limited Impact of Private Pressure
  • 14. The Politics of Vocationalization: Summary and Conclusions.

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