Globalizing the Community College : Strategies for Change in the Twenty-First Century

by Levin, John S.

• ISBN13: 9780312295950
• ISBN10: 0312295952
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Long regarded as purely a local institution, the community college has become globalized. Two year schools have been affected by economic, cultural, and technological effects of globalization. This book traces the experience of seven community colleges as they engineered organizational change to respond to globalization.

Author Biography

John S. Levin is Professor of Higher Education at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xvii
Globalization and the Community College	1	(18)
The Cases: Seven Colleges in Two Nations	19	(20)
The Domains of Globalization: The Economic Domain	39	(24)
The Cultural Domain	63	(18)
The Information Domain	81	(18)
The Domain of Politics	99	(22)
The Process of Globalization	121	(38)
What Remains Behind: The Community College in the Twenty-First Century	159	(24)
Appendix	183	(12)
Notes	195	(34)
Bibliography	229	(16)
Index	245