Full Description
Understanding Community Colleges provides a critical examination of contemporary issues and practices and policy of community colleges. This contributed volume brings together highly respected scholars as well as new scholars for a comprehensive analysis of the community college landscape, including management and governance, finance, student demographics and development, teaching and learning, policy, faculty, and workforce development. At the end of each chapter, the "Questions for Discussion" section helps to bridge the gap between research and practice. Written for students enrolled in higher education and community college graduate programs, as well as social sciences scholars, this provocative new edition covers the latest developments in the field, including trends in enrollment, developmental education, student services, funding, and shared governance.
Contents
CONTENTS
List of Tables and Figures
Series Editors Introduction
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 The Historical Origins of the Comprehensive Community College Mission, 1901-1965
Ken Meier
Chapter 2 Student Diversity in Community Colleges: Examining Trends and Understanding the Challenges
Lindsey E. Malcom-Piqueux
Chapter 3 Student Development Versus Consumerism: Student Services on Campus
Joan B. Hirt and Tara E. Frank
Chapter 4 Hispanic Community College Students: A Profile of Theory and Research
Amaury Nora, Vincent Carales, and Ripsimé K. Bledsoe
Chapter 5 International Student Enrollment in U. S. Community Colleges: Joint Endeavors by Individuals and Institutions
Yi Leaf Zhang and Linda Serra Hagedorn
Chapter 6 Adult Student Development: The Socio-Agentic Approach and its Relationship to the Community College Context
Virginia Montero-Hernandez and Christine Cerven
Chapter 7 Teaching Academically Underprepared Students in Community Colleges
Dolores Perin
Chapter 8 Career and Technical Education: Old Debates and Persistent Challenges
Debra D. Bragg
Chapter 9 Faculty and the Connection to the Institution
John S. Levin
Chapter 10 Leading in the Middle
Marilyn Amey and Pamela Eddy
Chapter 11 Redefining Shared Responsibility: Governance in the 21st Century Community College
Susan T. Kater and Carrie B. Kisker
Chapter 12 State Fiscal Support for Community Colleges
Jim Palmer and Richard M. Romano
Chapter 13 The Future is Probabl[e]y: The Same but Different
John S. Levin, Susan T. Kater, and Ariadna I. López Damián
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