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Student Success in Community Colleges As more and more underprepared students enroll in college, basic skills education is an increasing concern for all higher education institutions. Student Success in Community Colleges offers education leaders, administrators, faculty, and staff an essential resource for helping these students succeed and advance in college. By applying the book’s self-assessment instrument, colleges can pinpoint how their current activi… More >>

Student Success in Community Colleges: A Practical Guide to Developmental Education

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The goal in developing this ASHE Reader was to provide a contextualized picture of community colleges, having their own history, their own place within the contemporary higher education system, and their own future trajectory. These selections of readings do not place community colleges on a pedestal, nor do they attempt to condemn. They offer a rich array of perspectives, theoretical frameworks and research-based evidence drawn from quantitative and qualitative … More >>

ASHE Reader on Community Colleges

The entire concept of community college developed in the United States in the early part of the 20th century. The community colleges have been an educational institution that has developed based on the convenience of the local community primarily. There are various advantages associated with a community college that makes it an attractive proposition for everybody.

A community college is an inexpensive proposition that enables one to kick start ones career; it helps one to carry forward credits to the graduate colleges; very importantly, it enables one to do work and obtain education in a manner that is very job centric.

Since the community colleges place a lot of emphasis on job oriented learning, so it goes without saying that pass outs or graduates from a community college have an advantage as far as the jobs are concerned.

Let us take a look at the very genesis of a community college. A community college was the result of some thoughts going into providing focused education in specific areas to specific sections of the community.

The community college concept was necessary because the four year colleges had been pretty expensive and not ever body could afford to study in a four year graduate college. The concept of such a college, especially in the local community, is pretty close to the hearts of people.

Now let us take a look at the various advantages that a community college can bring to its students.

First, a community college brings to you absolutely focused education. In fact, the very theme and the very basic principles on which the college is based are about focus and a mission. Since these colleges mainly focus on the vocational education, the main aim is to prepare the students for the professional world.

The students are given extensive training on various aspects of different types of jobs that a student might take up in the future. The emphasis is a great deal on the practical aspects of the job. In other words, this is a finishing school. For example, a technical school in this mould will focus on teaching technical aspects of a job.

Second, these types of colleges are much cheaper than the regular four year graduate colleges. These principles are specifically aimed at the students who intend to taking up a good education but are not in a position to finance the cost of education in a four year college. In other words, the very foundation of these types of colleges is based on noble principles.
These types of colleges form the spine of a large section of the population and are a glimmer of hope for many people who are unable to have good education because of circumstances.

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With the federal government’s emphasis on workforce development, U.S. community colleges have become important entities in the national policy agenda and have taken on renewed importance to states. This book provides a critical analysis of various federal, state, and institutional policies affecting community colleges at the start of the 21st century. Addressed to anyone interested in the future of the community college, the book examines the national historical and… More >>

Community Colleges: Policy in the Future Context