Overview
Description
Organization and administration of the community college in the context of its mission and role in American higher education.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate understanding of the American community college history, mission, philosophy, and goals.
- describe a minimum of three community college governance models, finance structures, and organizational patterns.
- identify core competencies for community college leaders as developed by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).
- demonstrate a familiarity with the community college curriculum and its relationship to mission, the state economy, and community.
- demonstrate an awareness of the community college student demographics, their needs, and institutional responses to student access and success.
- describe state and federal policies and their relationship to community college operations and student success using the Achieve the Dream: Community Colleges Count project.
- analyze research on the effectiveness of community colleges.