The American Community College. Second Edition. The Jossey-Bass Higher Education Series.

Autor/inn/en	Cohen, Arthur M.; Brawer, Florence B.
Institution	ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, Los Angeles, CA.
Titel	The American Community College. Second Edition. The Jossey-Bass Higher Education Series.
Quelle	(1989), (485 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	ERIC Publications
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	1-55542-178-4
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; College Administration; College Curriculum; College Faculty; College Instruction; College Role; Community Colleges; Compensatory Education; Educational Finance; Educational History; Educational Objectives; Futures (of Society); General Education; Governance; Liberal Arts; Student Personnel Services; Teaching Methods; Two Year College Students; Two Year Colleges; Vocational Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Fakultät; Hochschullehre; Community college; Community College; Kompensatorischer Unterricht; Bildungsfonds; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Future; Society; Zukunft; Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung
Abstract	This monograph provides a comprehensive overview of community college education in the United States, emphasizing trends affecting two-year colleges within the past decade. Chapter 1 identifies the social forces that contributed to the development and expansion of community colleges and the continuing changes in institutional purposes. Chapter 2 examines the shifting patterns of student characteristics and goals, the reasons for the predominance of part-time attendance, participation and achievement among minority students, attrition issues, and recent moves toward student assessment. Chapter 3 draws on national data to illustrate the differences between full- and part-time faculty and discusses issues related to tenure, salary, workload, faculty evaluation, moonlighting, burnout, and job satisfaction. Chapter 4 reviews the changes that have taken place in college management as a result of changes in institutional size, the advent of collective bargaining, reductions in available funds, and changes in governance and control. Chapter 5 describes various funding patterns and their relationship to organizational shifts. Chapter 6 discusses the rise of learning resource centers and the maintenance of stability in instructional forms in spite of the introduction of a host of reproducible instructional media. Chapter 7 considers student personnel functions, including counseling, guidance, recruitment, retention, orientation, and extracurricular activities. Chapter 8 traces the rise of occupational education, as it has moved from a peripheral to a central position in the curriculum. Chapter 9 focuses on remedial and developmental programs and addresses the controversies surrounding student assessment and placement. Chapter 10 deals with adult and continuing education, lifelong learning, and community services. Chapters 11 and 12 examine curricular trends in the liberal arts and general education, highlighting problems and proposing solutions. Chapter 13 addresses the philosophical and practical questions that have been raised about the transfer function and the community college's role in enhancing student progress toward higher degrees. Finally, chapter 14 offers projections based on current trends in student and faculty demographics, college organization, curriculum, instruction, and student services. (JMC)
Anmerkungen	Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, 350 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94104 ($25.95).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01