Globalizing the community college : strategies for change in the twenty-first century / John S. Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, John S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community colleges--United States.

Community colleges.

United States.

Community colleges--Canada.

Canada.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 248 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2001.

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.

Contents:

1. Globalization and the Community College 1

2. The Cases: Seven Colleges in Two Nations 19

3. The Domains of Globalization: The Economic Domain 39

4. The Cultural Domain 63

5. The Information Domain 81

6. The Domain of Politics 99

7. The Process of Globalization 121

8. What Remains Behind: The Community College in the Twenty-First Century 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-248) and index.

ISBN:

0312239068

OCLC:

45757836