Advancing the Regional Role of Two-Year Colleges (eBook, PDF)

New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 157
Redaktion: Phelps, L. Allen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the midst of a challenging economic recovery, thenation's policy makers and education leaders are seeking newand potentially more effective strategies to align personal andpublic educational investments with job creation, increased levelsof employment, small business development, and entrepreneurialactivity. Reaching the 2020 national college completion goal willrequire powerful and fully implemented innovations in two-yearcolleges, particularly in states and regions where economicdifficulties are more deeply entrenched. Grounded in the Midwest context, this special issue examinesseveral promising policies and innovations that re-envision therole of two-year colleges in developing regional rather than localsolutions to the emerging economic and educational challenges. This is the 157th volume of this Jossey-Bassquarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries ofpresidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today'sopen-door institutions, New Directions for CommunityColleges provides expert guidance in meeting the challengesof their distinctive and expanding educational mission.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118405697
• Artikelnr.: 38246796