Best in Class: Community Colleges Could Take Notes from the Nation's Top Schools.

Autor/in	Kazis, Richard
Institution	Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA.
Titel	Best in Class: Community Colleges Could Take Notes from the Nation's Top Schools.
Quelle	In: CommonWealth, 7 (2002) 4, S.19-24 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Access to Education; Awards; Community Colleges; Educationally Disadvantaged; First Generation College Students; Job Skills; Minority Groups; Nontraditional Students; Student Characteristics; Two Year College Students; Two Year Colleges; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Award; Auszeichnung; Community college; Community College; Produktive Fertigkeit; Ethnische Minderheit; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	MetLife Foundation created a national awards program to identify and reward community colleges that are best promoting educational and economic advancement of underserved youth and adults. Jobs for the Future, a Boston-based national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping young people and adults gain skills needed to succeed in a changing world, managed this effort for the foundation. The six finalists and the two award recipients reflect the wide range of American community colleges. West Hills Community College (WHCC) in California's San Joaquin Valley is a small school in a largely Hispanic rural area. At WHCC, recruiting from the area's Hispanic population is the highest priority. Advisors and counselors go out into the community; Hispanic enrollment has increased from 17% to 48% since new leadership took over 8 years ago. Sinclair Community College (SCC) in Dayton, Ohio, is large and urban, with significant concentrations of poor Appalachian whites and African Americans in its classrooms. SCC targets zip codes with high percentages of African Americans and Appalachian residents for outreach. The author describes some innovations in Massachusetts community colleges, but argues that they are the exception in that state rather than the rule. Massachusetts has low state support for community colleges, resulting in tuition that is among the highest in the nation, which in turn depresses enrollment. (Author/NB)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://www.jff.org/jff/PDFDocuments/BestInClass.pdf.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC