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The American community college / Arthur M. Cohen, Florence B. Brawer.
LIBRA LB2328 .C55 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Arthur M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community colleges--United States.
- Community colleges.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 566 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2008]
- Contents:
- Background : evolving priorities and expectations of the community college
- Students : diverse backgrounds, purposes, and outcomes
- Faculty : building a professional identity
- Organization, governance, and administration : managing the contemporary college
- Finances : sustaining and allocating resources
- Instruction : methods, media, and effects
- Student services : supporting educational objectives
- Vocational education : occupational entry, change, and development
- Developmental education : enhancing literacy and basic skills
- Community education : extending college services and training
- Collegiate function : transfer and the liberal arts
- Scholarship and assessment : research in and about the colleges
- The social role : a response to the critics
- Toward the future : trends, challenges, and obligations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-538) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780470174685
- 0470174684
- OCLC:
- 227205719
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