Globalizing the Community College : Strategies for Change in the Twenty-First Century

Long regarded as a local institution, the community college has become a globalized institution. It has been affected by global forces, and by the interpretations of organizational members to both global forces and to the responses of intermediaries. Globalization as a process finds an outlet within the community college where economic, cultural, and technological behaviors are advanced along lines consistent with and supportive of globalization. Furthermore, government actions have directed community colleges to respond and adapt to a global economy. In this book, seven community colleges are examined to demonstrate organizational change in the 1990s precipitated by globalization. Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii Globalization and the Community College....Pages 1-18 The Cases: Seven Colleges in Two Nations....Pages 19-38 The Domains of Globalization: The Economic Domain....Pages 39-62 The Cultural Domain....Pages 63-80 The Information Domain....Pages 81-97 The Domain of Politics....Pages 99-120 The Process of Globalization....Pages 121-157 What Remains Behind: The Community College in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 159-182 Back Matter....Pages 229-248 Given the pervasive influence of distance education and the wired quality of the classroom, the community college has become more important as a satellite institution that connects learners, and is no longer purely a local institution