Download or read book Community Colleges in the 1990s written by Glen Gabert and published by Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation. This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to provide an overview of the dramatic changes affecting community college education, this booklet presents a history of the movement which established community colleges, examines issues of particular importance in the 1990's, and offers predictions concerning community colleges in the 21st century. Following an introduction and brief history, the booklet profiles today's community colleges, reviewing the mission of two-year institutions and describing the characteristics which distinguish them from four-year schools. Then, student enrollments for the 1990's are discussed in terms of the factors contributing to projected enrollment increases. This section provides vignettes profiling 13 hypothetical students and the circumstances surrounding their enrollment, and highlights the demographic characteristics of the community college students of 1990. The next three sections look at curriculum and instruction; staffing; and finance, respectively, each concluding with a series of relevant questions currently facing community colleges. The final section provides a series of predictions concerning the status of community colleges in the year 2000, foretelling that the student body will include more minorities and persons over the age of 55; that the majority of faculty will have been hired in the 1990's subsequent to massive retirements; and that the academic agendas of fewer community colleges will be dictated by four-year institutions. (PAA)
Download or read book America s Community Colleges written by Allen A. Witt and published by American Association of Community Colleges(AACC). This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "America's Community Colleges: The First Century", Allen A. Witt, James L. Wattenbarger, James F. Gollattscheck, and Joseph E. Suppiger narrate the history of the first hundred years of American community colleges from the perspective of the 1990s. The authors show how junior colleges helped democratize education in American and became part of a long tradition that includes grammar schools and land-grant colleges. The authors take the reader on a grand tour of the personalities that shaped the community college movement and the state boards, associations, and colleges that helped build its momentum. Along the way, the authors debunk some of the myths that have haunted two-year institutions and uncover some surprising facts. The authors also discuss the baby boom's effects on the growth of community colleges, the efforts of African Americans to join AACC's Board of Directors, the controversy surrounding the first junior college, and the history of the very words "community college." Comprehensive and readable, "America's Community College" is the foremost work on the history of "the people's college." -- From publisher's description.
Download or read book Grown and Flown written by Lisa Heffernan and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.
Download or read book Proceedings from Effectiveness and Student Success written by Consortium for Institutional Effectiveness and Student Success in the Community College and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Basic Agenda Policy Directions and Priorities for the Nineties the Status Report written by California Community Colleges. Board of Governors and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Massachusetts Community Colleges written by Massachusetts Community College Presidents' Council and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating Community on College Campuses written by Irving J. Spitzberg Jr. and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Community on College Campuses addresses the most critical and difficult issues facing higher education in the 1990s: improving the quality of teaching and learning, raising academic standards, protecting freedom of expression, and simultaneously enhancing community of the whole and community of the parts. This book offers an understanding of community as a complex concept, one that incorporates the values of a democratic society and encourages learning and participation by all citizens of the campus, and discusses topics such as race and ethnicity, the climate for women, harassment and free speech, alcohol, crime, Greek life, and interaction among faculty and students. The authors conclude with concrete recommendations to support the implementation of pluralistic learning communities on our nation's campuses.
Download or read book Innovation in the Community College written by Terry O'Banion and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renaissance of innovation is taking place in America's community colleges. This book documents and analyzes stimulating changes that have marked the 1980s and points the way to new practices and structures that will continue to invigorate the community colleges during the 1990s. The 13 chapters offer a rich selection of possibilities for the future of the community college. Here are tested ideas and programs that make the community college such an important force in our changing society--the practices that serve students more fully, support faculty more effectively, and reach the community more extensively.
Download or read book The Establishment of Enterprise State Community College written by Kevin Tyler Ammons and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Colleges often fail to document their own local histories. Local leaders involved in the establishment of their local community colleges stories have not been told about their institutions. This is especially the case for the Alabama Community College System. Alabama lacks documented histories of its two- year institutions. As of today, the Alabama Community College System history consists of three written local histories: Carlton Kelly's The History and Development of John C. Calhoun State Community College, Alta Milican's history of Snead State Junior College and Reginald William Hall's The History of Alexander City State Junior College: Its Beginning, Foundation and Progress, which is today Central Alabama Community College. In 1988, twenty- five years after the system was established, the system grew to include 41 two- year institutions. Members of local community colleges have the potential to write the histories of their institutions, either established or merged from the Alabama Trade School and Junior College Authority. Since 1979-2005, Alabama has merged the system from 41 institutions to 25 community colleges. Alabama has witnessed over 50 years of establishing a two- year system of junior colleges, technical colleges and community colleges. Many of these institutions will celebrate their 50TH Anniversary in 2015. They will celebrate without a history, including Enterprise State Community College (ESCC). This study will fill the void.
Download or read book Basic Agenda written by California Community Colleges. Board of Governors and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Colleges and New Universities under Neoliberal Pressures written by John S. Levin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines seven higher education organizations, exploring their interconnected lines: organizational change and organizational stability. These lines are nested within historical, social, cultural, and political contexts of two nations—the US and Canada—two provinces and three states: Alberta, British Columbia, California, Hawai’i, and Washington. The author studies the development of the community college and the development of the university from community college origins, bringing to the forefront these seven individual stories. Addressing continuity and discontinuity and identity preservation and identity change, as well as individual organizations’ responses to government policy, Levin analyzes and illuminates those policies with neoliberal assumptions and values.
Download or read book Gateway to Opportunity written by J. M. Beach and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the U.S. keep its dominant economic position in the world economy with only 30% of its population holding bachelor’s degrees? If the majority of U.S. citizens lack a higher education, can the U.S. live up to its democratic principles and preserve its political institutions? These questions raise the critical issue of access to higher education, central to which are America’s open-access, low-cost community colleges that enroll around half of all first-time freshmen in the U.S. Can these institutions bridge the gap, and how might they do so? The answer is complicated by multiple missions—gateways to 4-year colleges, providers of occupational education, community services, and workforce development, as well as of basic skills instruction and remediation.To enable today’s administrators and policy makers to understand and contextualize the complexity of the present, this history describes and analyzes the ideological, social, and political motives that led to the creation of community colleges, and that have shaped their subsequent development. In doing so, it fills a large void in our knowledge of these institutions.The “junior college,” later renamed the “community college” in the 1960s and 1970s, was originally designed to limit access to higher education in the name of social efficiency. Subsequently leaders and communities tried to refashion this institution into a tool for increased social mobility, community organization, and regional economic development. Thus, community colleges were born of contradictions, and continue to be an enigma. This history examines the institutionalization process of the community college in the United States, casting light on how this educational institution was formed, for what purposes, and how has it evolved. It uncovers the historically conditioned rules, procedures, rituals, and ideas that ordered and defined the particular educational structure of these colleges; and focuses on the individuals, organizations, ideas, and the larger political economy that contributed to defining the community college’s educational missions, and have enabled or constrained this institution from enacting those missions. He also sets the history in the context of the contemporary debates about access and effectiveness, and traces how these colleges have responded to calls for accountability from the 1970s to the present.Community colleges hold immense promise if they can overcome their historical legacy and be re-institutionalized with unified missions, clear goals of educational success, and adequate financial resources. This book presents the history in all its complexity so that policy makers and practitioners might better understand the constraints of the past in an effort to realize the possibilities of the future.
Download or read book The Community College Story written by George B. Vaughan and published by Amer. Assn. of Community Col. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Profile of Community Colleges written by Kent A. Phillippe and published by Amer. Assn. of Community Col. This book was released on 2005 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a national view of trends and statistics related to today's community colleges. The new edition includes completely revised text as well as updates to charts and tables on topics such as enrollment, student outcomes, population, curriculum, faculty, workforce, and financial aid. Informative narrative introduces and provides context for the data. An excellent resource for presentations, public information, media relations, and long-range planning. Chapter 1, Community Colleges Past and Present, recounts the history of community colleges and summarizes some of the more pressing issues facing them today. Chapter 2, Community College Enrollment, provides detailed information and demographics concerning enrollment at community colleges and puts it in perspective with the rest of higher education. Chapter 3, The Social and Economic Impact of Community Colleges, describes the impact of community colleges on students and their communities through measures such as degree and certificate completion, employment data, and educational attainment within the general population. Chapter 4, Community College Staff and Services, offers a view of staffing at community colleges, from the presidency and senior administration to faculty and support staff. Chapter 5, College Education Costs and Financing, focuses on the financial aspects of community colleges, as they affect the institution and its students. Chapter 6, A Look at the Future, presages trends and issues that will define the community college of the future. The book also contains a Preface, Glossary, References, Index, and About the Authors. (Contains 39 figures and 77 tables.).
Download or read book Understanding Community Colleges written by John S. Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Community Colleges provides a comprehensive review of the community college landscape—management and governance, finance, student demographics and development, teaching and learning, policy, faculty, and workforce development—and bridges the gap between research and practice. This contributed volume brings together highly respected scholars in the field who rely upon substantial theoretical perspectives—critical theory, social theory, institutional theory, and organizational theory—for a rich and expansive analysis of community colleges. The latest text to publish in the Core Concepts in Higher Education series, this exciting new text fills a gap in the higher education literature available for students enrolled in Higher Education and Community College graduate programs. This text provides students with: A review of salient research related to the community college field. Critical theoretical perspectives underlying current policies. An understanding of how theory links to practice, including focused end-of-chapter discussion questions. A fresh examination of emerging issues and insight into contemporary community college practices and policy.
Download or read book Community College Financing 1990 written by David Smith Honeyman and published by American Association of Community Colleges(AACC). This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a national survey of state-level community college financial policies and procedures, this report reviews trends in financial support, community college expenditures, tuition, and financial aid. Introductory material examines the relationship among enrollment, tuition, and financial aid. Based on data from 37 states, part I focuses on community college funding indicating an increase in overall levels of support. Data are provided on sources of operating funds by percentage of total funds available, state appropriations for all education, sources of state funds for general operating expenditures; funds allocated on the basis of program costs; reported changes in support mechanisms since fiscal year 1986; sources of funding for non-credit programs; funding for operations by means other than enrollment calculations; percentage of total state funds in support of categorical programs; sources of funds for capital outlay; and sources of local tax revenue in support of community colleges. Part II contains data on mean expenditures per full-time equivalent (FTE) student, including comparable data for 1985. This section also provides information on full-time and part-time headcount enrollments, as well as annual FTE student enrollment figures. States are listed in rank order by expenditure per FTE. Part III offers additional information on the financial support of community colleges, pointing to tuition and fee increases by state and changes in student financial aid. This section concludes with survey responses regarding the most critical problems facing community colleges. The questionnaire and a list of respondents are included. (JMC)
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
