The Evolving Role of the Community College: Policy Issues and Research Questions
- 1 January 2002
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Abstract
Community colleges are much in the policy limelight these days. State and federal policymakers are looking especially at community colleges as a cost-effective way to serve the increasing number of students wishing to go to college (Phelan, 2000). Moreover, community colleges recommend themselves as key institutions to meet the training demands of the increasing sub-baccalaureate sector of the occupational structure (Grubb, 1996). And those concerned about remedial education and distance education naturally focus on community colleges since they are major purveyors of both forms of education (Spann, 2000).Keywords
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