Rural communities have fewer financial resources, making the community colleges located
in these regions central to economic development. This chapter reviews the importance of …

With community colleges educating up to one-half of all US undergraduates, more focus on
internationalization is warranted in order to ensure student competitiveness in today's global …

Study of four-year broad access institutions (BAIs) is important given their influence on
postsecondary educational opportunities and the continued importance of the bachelor's …

Objective: Despite extensive debate about the curricular mission of community colleges,
prior research has not sufficiently analyzed differences in the kinds of degrees (ie, the field of …

In this study, I draw on Bahr's (Research in Higher Education 51: 724–749, 2010; New
Directions for Institutional Research S1: 33–48, 2011) behavioral typology of first-time …

Performance-based funding (PBF) models intend to increase efficiency and productivity of
the institution, thereby influencing organizational change. This change may be structural …

Critical discourse analysis was employed to examine the narratives collected from 40
community college administrators who were asked to recount their experience in an event …

This chapter discusses the historic struggle to extend geographic access from before World
War II to the end of the Baby Boom era (1965–1973), when states created/expanded …

This study employed the career capital framework (DeFillippi & Arthur, 1994; Inkson &
Arthur, 2001) and the associated three ways of knowing adapted for community colleges …

Inclusion means that students with disabilities have access to high-quality and effective
instruction, as well as specialized services as needed, within least restrictive environments …