Book description
In the midst of a challenging economic recovery, the nation's policy
makers and education leaders are seeking new and potentially more
effective strategies to align personal and public educational
investments with job creation, increased levels of employment, small
business development, and entrepreneurial activity. Reaching the 2020
national college completion goal will require powerful and fully
implemented innovations in two-year colleges, particularly in states
and regions where economic difficulties are more deeply entrenched.
Grounded in the Midwest context, this special issue examines several
promising policies and innovations that re-envision the role of
two-year colleges in developing regional rather than local solutions
to the emerging economic and educational challenges.
This is the 157th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly
report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents,
vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door
institutions,
New Directions for Community Colleges provides expert
guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding
educational mission.
