Community Colleges Online

Online Community and Democracy

The debate over the contribution of the Internet to democracy is farfrom settled. Some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the US to argue thatthe Internet will restore the public sphere. Others claim that the Internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. This paper argues f...

Immigrants in community colleges.

Immigrant youth and children of immigrants make up a large and increasing share of the nation's population, and over the next few decades they will constitute a significant portion of the U.S. workforce. Robert Teranishi, Carola Suárez-Orozco, and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco argue that increasing their educational attainment, economic productivity, and civic engagement should thus be a national prior...

Fostering success at community colleges.

119 COVER Tens of thousands of books appear in this photograph of the interior of the sculpture Idiom, by Matej Krén. On page 176, Michel et al. describe an even larger collection: a 5.2-million-book corpus containing 4% of all books ever published. Statistical analysis of this corpus makes it possible to study cultural trends quantitatively.

Shared Governance in Community Colleges

INTRODUCTION Shared governance is one of the most widely discussed and misunderstood topics in postsecondary education today. Lacking precise definition and often interpreted in ways that support special interests, it can have different meanings for different audiences. Some view it as a system of self-government in which policies, procedures and decision-making involve the entire organization....

Efficiency, Economy, and Social Equity in Online Education at America's Community Colleges