Detailansicht
Re-visioning Community Colleges
eBook - Positioning for Innovation, ACE Series on Community Colleges
ISBN/EAN: 9781442214880
Umbreit-Nr.: 860476
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 148 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 27.12.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span><span><span>Re-visioning Community Colleges</span><span></span><span>traces the development and generational evolution of community colleges, explores the past success and future capacity of community colleges as disruptive innovators, and analyzes this sectors unique advantages and vulnerabilities. Ultimately, Sydow and Aflred presents alternative futures for community colleges as theylike all sectors of higher educationface rapidly changing environmental forces and conditions.</span><span>Re-visioning</span><span>, the primary thrust of the book, is the process of foresight into the shape that community colleges will likely take in the future, on the basis of their growth and innovation trajectory and in response to the dramatic industry shift that is currently underway in the higher education enterprise.</span></span></span>
- Kurztext
- <span><span><span>Re-visioning Community Colleges</span><span> </span><span>has the foresight into the shape that community colleges will likely take in the future. Their predictions are based on an analysis of the growth and innovation trajectory in community colleges as they respond to the dramatic changes in the field.</span></span></span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span><span><span>Debbie L. Sydow</span><span> is the president of Richard Bland College.</span></span><br><span><span><br></span><span>Richard Alfred</span><span> is professor emeritus of higher education in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan.<br><br></span></span></span>