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.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Townsend, Barbara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Westport : Greenwood Pub. Group, 2000
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; 1 Governmental Policies Affecting Community Colleges; 2 Federal Policies and Community Colleges A Mix of Federal and Local Influences; 3 Statewide Governance Structures and Two Year Colleges; 4 Accountability in Community Colleges Looking toward the 21st Century; 5 The Buffered and the Buffeted Institution Globalization and the Community College; 6 Policy Directions for K-14 Education--Looking to the Future; 7 State Policies and the Community College's Role in Workforce Preparation.
  • 8 State Dual Credit Policy and Its Implications for Community Colleges Lessons from Missouri for the 21st Century9 Statewide Transfer and Articulation Policies Current Practices and Emerging Issues; 10 Reframing Remediation as a Systemic Phenomenon A Comparative Analysis of Remediation in Two States; 11 Teaching and Learning in the New Information Age State System Policies for Technology; 12 SUNY General Education Reform and the Community Colleges; 13 Institutional Policies That Pr.