Community colleges : policy in the future context /

This text addresses the various federal, state, and institutional policies affecting community colleges and speculates about future policy options within the current policy context.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Townsend, Barbara K. (Editor ), Twombly, Susan B. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Westport, Conn. : Ablex, 2001.
Colección:Educational policy in the 21st century ; v. 2.
Temas:
Community colleges > United States.
Higher education and state > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Collèges communautaires > États-Unis.
Enseignement supérieur > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Enseignement supérieur > Finalités > 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:
  • PART I: NATIONAL LEVEL: Governmental policies affecting community colleges: a historical perspective / Arthur M. Cohen
  • Federal policies and community colleges: a mix of federal and local influences / Cheryl D. Lovell
  • Statewide governance structures and two-year colleges / Richard C. Richardson, Jr. and Gerardo E. de los Santos
  • Accountability in community colleges: looking toward the 21st Century / Frankie Santos Laanan
  • The buffered and the buffeted institution: globalization and the community college / John S. Levin
  • PART II: STATE LEVEL: Policy directions for K-14 education: looking to the future / Margaret Terry Orr and Debra D. Bragg
  • State policies and the community college's role in workforce preparation / Kevin J. Dougherty
  • State dual credit policy and its implications for community colleges: lessons from Missouri for the 21st Century / Anthony G. Girardi and Robert B. Stein
  • Statewide transfer and articulation policies: current practices and emerging issues / Jan M. Ignash and Barbara K. Townsend
  • Reframing remediation as a systemic phenomenon: a comparative analysis of remediation in two state / Kathleen M. Shaw
  • Teaching and learning in the new information age: state-system policies for technology / Rosa Cintron, Connie Dillon, and Tammy Boyd
  • PART III: INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL: SUNY general education reform and the community colleges: a case study of cross-purposes / George H. Higginbottom and Richard M. Romano
  • Institutional policies that promote persistence among first-year community college students / Romero Jalomo, Jr.
  • Conclusion: The future of the community college policy in the 21st Century / Susan B. Twombly and Barbara K. Townsend.

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