The Community College Reform Movement

Contentions and Ideological Origins

Milton E. Clarke (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-60138-0 (ISBN)

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This book critically examines the rise of the higher education reform movement, often referred to as the “completion agenda,” which since the early 2000s has sought to restructure core aspects of the community college experience. Using community colleges from across 9 US states as practical examples, it explores the major higher education reforms, including dual enrollment, the demise of developmental education, corequisites, and performance-based funding. Against the popular view that support for such policies is tied to neoliberalism, it argues for a more nuanced understanding of the complicated and often indistinct ideological foundation of the reform movement, demonstrating that supporters and detractors alike draw on similar concepts such as equity, student success, and affordability. This complication is further clarified through an account of the history, processes, functions, and institutions that paved the way for the advent of the higher education reform movement.

Vital reading for anyone interested in the future of community colleges and higher education more generally, this book will particularly appeal to scholars, researchers, and educators working in higher education, educational reform, and educational policy.

Milton E. Clarke is a full-time Community College Instructor at Los Medanos College, CA-USA.

1. Introduction: The Community College Reform Movement: Origin of Contentions and Ideological Roots 2. Looking Backwards at Community Colleges and the Reform Movement – The past is present 3. The Role of State Government in California Community College Affairs 4. Funding Community Colleges 5. Community College Governance in the 21st Century 6. Instruction Amid a “Reformist” Surge 7. The Evolving Roles of Community College Faculty and Students 8. And So, What Future Community College?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Higher Education
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-032-60138-8 / 1032601388
ISBN-13	978-1-032-60138-0 / 9781032601380
Zustand	Neuware