Access and Social Capital: A Profile of Community College and Global Counterparts

Authors

  • Rosalind Latiner Raby California State University, Northridge
  • Edward J. Valeau Senior Partner ELS group and Superintendent President Emeritus of Hartnell Community College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/ehe.2014.126

Abstract

Alternatives to the traditional four-year public and private university include a sector of higher education that offers a more advanced curriculum than secondary school and serves as a local and often lower-cost pathway that gives options for university overflow for adult learners, displaced workers, life-long learners, workforce learners, developmental learners, and non-traditional learners (Raby and Valeau 2009). These institutional types are known by several names including College of Further Education, Community College, Polytechnic, Technical College, and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) and are found on all continents. Based on a literature review of 1,083 academic publications these institutions share a mission that views educational access as necessary for growing the economic and social capital that is needed to help students improve lives. Central to this mission is the belief that any amount of post-secondary education is life-enhancing, regardless of length of study or level of completion. This article examines application of this mission at community colleges and global counterparts throughout the world.

Author Biographies

Rosalind Latiner Raby, California State University, Northridge

Rosalind Latiner Raby, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at California State University, Northridge in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department of the College of Education and is an affiliate faculty for the ELPS Ed.D. Community College program. She also serves as the Director of California Colleges for International Education, a non-profit consortium whose membership includes eighty-nine California community colleges. Dr. Raby received her Ph.D. in the field of Comparative and International Education from UCLA and since 1984, has worked with community college faculty and administrators to help them internationalize their campuses.

Edward J. Valeau, Senior Partner ELS group and Superintendent President Emeritus of Hartnell Community College

Senior Partner ELS group and Superintendent President Emeritus of Hartnell Community College

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Published

2014-12-11

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2014)

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