Transfer Matters: Forward to the Special Issue on Transfer

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra D. Bragg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
The United States ◽  
Diverse Learners ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Future ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
State And Local

Transfer has a long history that parallels the evolution of community colleges in the United States. Research on transfer has focused extensively on policies and processes that operate under the auspices of these institutions, with somewhat less emphasis on universities acting as transfer partners. This issue is important for the success of all students but especially students who are historically underserved by higher education. This article reviews four articles that focus on the most critical issues facing transfer today. Highlighting the importance of addressing diverse learners’ needs, state and local policies and processes that influence transfer and articulation implementation, and the roles of community colleges and universities operating as part of systems and also in tandum with one another is central the research appearing in this issue, including findings that are important for other researchers to consider to guide their work in the future.

scholarly journals Essential pathways: An examination of how community colleges compromise their unique contributions to American higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
Khadijah Zakia Ali-Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Open Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
The Future ◽  
Effective Community

Community colleges in the United States have historically held a unique position within the system of higher education because of three characteristics. These characteristics include their doctrine of open access, their consistent affordability in comparison to other higher education options, and courses that are directly applicable to the workforce. However, over the years, contradictions have arisen that compromise the practice of these ideals. Focusing on three policy priorities, this analysis determines how effective community colleges are today in offering students an education that is accessible, applicable to the labor market, and affordable. The concluding points include predictions of what the future of community colleges looks like within the next twenty years.

scholarly journals International Students and Scholars in the United States: Coming From Abroad

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-298
Author(s):  
Neete Saha
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
International Students ◽  
International Education ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Critical Issues

International students and scholars in the United States: Coming from abroad is a well-written, well-researched, and well-timed monograph. In pursuit of higher education, international students have continued to attend colleges and universities in the United States of America in spite of the educational, emotional, and cultural issues. According to the Institute of International Education (IIE), 723, 277 international students and more than 115,000 international scholars matriculated in American colleges and universities in 2010/2011 (pp. 4-9). The editors, Heike Alberts and Helen Hazen, have not only provided readers with an opportunity to learn about international students and scholars from Asia, Africa, and Europe but have also addressed critical issues faced by the international students and scholars in the United States. 

Winning the Argument and Moving the Fight: The Legacy of a Grassroots Humanitarian

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Mary Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Winning Strategy ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Trade Offs

The author of this article argues that the two-decades-long litigation struggle was necessary to push the political actors in Mississippi into a more virtuous than vicious legal/political negotiation. The second and related argument, however, is that neither the 1992 United States Supreme Court decision in Fordice nor the negotiation provided an adequate riposte to plaintiffs’ claims. The author shows that their chief counsel for the first phase of the litigation wanted equality of opportunity for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), as did the plaintiffs. In the course of explicating the role of a legal grass-roots humanitarian, Coleman suggests lessons learned and trade-offs from that case/negotiation, describing the tradeoffs as part of the political vestiges of legal racism in black public higher education and the need to move HBCUs to a higher level of opportunity at a critical juncture in the life of tuition-dependent colleges and universities in the United States. Throughout the essay the following questions pose themselves: In thinking about the Road to Fordice and to political settlement, would the Justice Department lawyers and the plaintiffs’ lawyers connect at the point of their shared strength? Would the timing of the settlement benefit the plaintiffs and/or the State? Could plaintiffs’ lawyers hold together for the length of the case and move each piece of the case forward in a winning strategy? Who were plaintiffs’ opponents and what was their strategy? With these questions in mind, the author offers an analysis of how the campaign— political/legal arguments and political/legal remedies to remove the vestiges of de jure segregation in higher education—unfolded in Mississippi, with special emphasis on the initiating lawyer in Ayers v. Waller and Fordice, Isaiah Madison

Challenges Facing Contemporary Community Colleges

2019 ◽  
pp. 186-200
Author(s):  
Shah S. Ardalan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Workforce Training ◽  
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Student Completion

For over a century, American community colleges have delivered on their mission of open access and now educate about half of all undergraduate students in the United States. Recognized as primary providers of higher education and workforce training, especially to non-traditional and socioeconomically disadvantaged students, community colleges serve as transformative engines of prosperity and democratization of education. Contemporary community colleges face many challenges. Mainly, while community colleges are persistently underfunded, their leaders are under ever-increasing demand to improve student completion.

Interactions with Asians in Higher Education: Beyond Multicultural Myths

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Festus E. Obiakor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Culturally And Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Model Minorities ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Education Today

AbstractOne of the critical issues in education today is how to help all students to maximize their fullest potential. Achieving this goal seems to be difficult for many people who come from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. At all levels, they endure direct and indirect disenfranchisements, disadvantages, and disillusionments, especially if they learn differently, are racially different, demonstrate different behavioral patterns, have different personal idiosyncrasies, or come from different countries. Despite these apparent impediments, Asians are viewed by many as “model” minorities when compared to African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. This view has continued to affect how Asians view themselves and how the society as a whole views them. Coming originally from Nigeria to the United States, I have had myriad interactions with Asians as student, professor, scholar, leader, and professional. In this article, I share my experiences with Asians and how these experiences have exposed multicultural realities and myths.

Community Colleges in America and Distance Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 302-303
Author(s):  
Gary A. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Common Mistake ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Institutional Types ◽  
Four Year Institutions

Community colleges in the United States have played an important role in the development and implementation of various forms of computer- and media-based education. A common mistake made when discussing distance learning in American higher education is to fail to distinguish the policies and practices of different institutional types. Generalizations about distance learning are particularly misleading if one does not recognize the very large differences in mission, resources, stakeholders, and external pressures between community colleges and four-year institutions.

The North American Community College and Australian Higher Education

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. S. Harman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Community College ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Student Transfer ◽  
The North ◽  
Education Today

This paper discusses the development of community colleges in the United States and Canada, outlines some of their key distinguishing characteristics and the main models that have developed with regard to student entry to higher education and student transfer between institutions, and attempts an evaluation of the community college idea, looking at both strengths and weaknesses. The paper then explores the possible relevance of the community college for Australian higher education today.

Toward Exclusion through Inclusion: Engendering Reputation with Gender-Inclusive Facilities at Colleges and Universities in the United States, 2001-2013

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander K. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Original Sample ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Formal Organizations ◽  
Campus Newspaper

Ample sociological evidence demonstrates that binary gender ideologies are an intractable part of formal organizations and that transgender issues tend to be marginalized by a wide range of social institutions. Yet, in the last 15 years, more than 200 colleges and universities have attempted to ameliorate such realities by adopting gender-inclusive facilities in which students of any gender can share residential and restroom spaces. What cultural logics motivate these transformations? How can their emergence be reconciled with the difficulty of altering the gender order? Using an original sample of 2,036 campus newspaper articles, I find that support for inclusive facilities frames such spaces as a resource through which an institution can claim improved standing in the field of higher education. This process of engendering reputation allows traditional gender separation in residential arrangements to be overcome, but it also situates institutional responsiveness to transgender issues as a means of enhancing a college or university’s public prestige. This, in turn, produces novel status systems in the field of higher education—albeit ones that perpetuate familiar forms of institutional and cultural exclusion.

The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Archibald ◽  
David H. Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Returning Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Future ◽  
Four Year Institutions ◽  
Age Range

This book evaluates the threats—real and perceived—that American colleges and universities must confront over the next thirty years. Those threats include rising costs endemic to personal services like higher education, growing income inequality in the United States that affects how much families can pay, demographic changes that will affect demand, and labor market changes that could affect the value of a degree. The book also evaluates changing patterns of state and federal support for higher education, and new digital technologies rippling through the entire economy. Although there will be great challenges ahead for America’s complex mix of colleges and universities, this book’s analysis is an antidote to the language of crisis that dominates contemporary public discourse. The bundle of services that four-year colleges and universities provide likely will retain their value for the traditional age range of college students. The division between in-person education for most younger students and online coursework for older and returning students appears quite stable. This book provides a view that is less pessimistic about the present, but more worried about the future. The diverse American system of four-year institutions is resilient and adaptable. But the threats this book identifies will weigh most heavily on the schools that disproportionately serve America’s most at-risk students. The future could cement in place a bifurcated higher education system, one for the children of privilege and great potential and one for the riskier social investment in the children of disadvantage.

Anthropology and Public Policy in Alaska

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Kerry Feldman ◽  
Steve Langdon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

This special issue of Practicing Anthropology includes seven papers which cover a broad spectrum of anthropological practice in Alaska, but share a common orientation toward public policy. We have chosen to focus on anthropology and public policy in Alaska for several reasons. First, there appears to be a high level of anthropological involvement in and impact on Alaskan public policy compared to other regions of the United States. Second, that involvement and influence is not limited to one or two topics but ranges over a variety of issues. Finally, we feel that because of the nature of contemporary Alaska—its size, small population, ethnic diversity, present economy, and youth as a state—public directions taken at this time will be crucial to the future of the people who are presently residents of Alaska. A sense of that urgency as well as of the powerful forces at work comes through in a number of the articles.

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