Community Colleges, Eager to Prove Their Worth, Develop Voluntary Standards of Performance

Autor/in	Basken, Paul
Titel	Community Colleges, Eager to Prove Their Worth, Develop Voluntary Standards of Performance
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2008) 11, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Standards; Accountability; Educational Quality; Financial Support; Educational Finance; College Outcomes Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Standard; Verantwortung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Finanzielle Förderung; Bildungsfonds
Abstract	The federal government's recent focus on making institutions prove their academic quality has left community colleges feeling vulnerable, uncertain about how to demonstrate their value to students and worried about losing crucial taxpayer support as their enrollments rise in a sagging economy. This article reports that community-college leaders are now setting out to address this issue: over the past few weeks, the heads of the nation's major community-college associations began what they expect may be a yearlong process of developing voluntary standards in such areas as course-completion rates, transfer readiness, and employer satisfaction to build a body of statistical evidence to show why federal, state, and local governments, especially during a time of economic stress, should increase rather than reduce support for community colleges. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10