TY  - BOOK
AU  - Townsend,Barbara K.
AU  - Twombly,Susan B.
TI  - Community colleges: policy in the future context 
T2  - Educational policy in the 21st century
SN  - 058539444X
AV  - LB2328.15.U6 C655 2001eb
U1  - 378.1/543/0973 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Westport, Conn.
PB  - Ablex
KW  - Community colleges
KW  - United States
KW  - Higher education and state
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - Collèges communautaires
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Enseignement supérieur
KW  - Politique gouvernementale
KW  - Finalités
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Higher
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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