Understanding Community Colleges

Name: Understanding Community Colleges
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ISBN: 9780415881272

ISBN-10: 0415881277

ISBN-13: 9780415881272

Edition: 2013

Authors: John S. Levin, Susan T. Kater

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Understanding Community Collegesprovides 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 Educationseries, this exciting new text fills a gap in the higher education…

Book details

List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

John S. Levin is the Bank of America Professor of Educational Leadership and the Director and Principal Investigator, California Community College Collaborative, at the University of California, Riverside, USA.




The Core: Community Colleges and their Students



Community College Mission in Historical Perspective




Student Diversity in Community Colleges: Examining Trends and Understanding the Challenges




Student Development and Consumerism: Student Services on Campus




International Students in U.S. Community Colleges: Status, Opportunities, and Future




Adult Student Development: The Agentic Approach and its Relationship to the Community College Context




Teaching Academically Underprepared Students in Community Colleges




Institutional Issues for the Community College



Planning Programs for Community College Education: Theory, Policy, and Practice




Managing Today's Community Colleges: A New Era?




Leadership: Community College Transitions




Deconstructing Governance and Expectations for the Community College




State Fiscal Support for Community Colleges




Economic and Workforce Development



Career and Technical Education:Old Debates, Persistent Challenges in Community Colleges




The Comparative Political Economy of Vocational Education: Lessons for the Study of Community Colleges in the United States




Community College Economic and Workforce Development Education in the Neoliberal and Academic Capitalist Contexts




The Future: Community College Research & Scholarship



Understandings of Community Colleges in Need of Resuscitation: The Case of Community College Faculty