Community colleges struggle with enrollment and student success challenges to enhance student experiences and improve completion through various initiatives. Despite efforts, many lack long-term sustainability efforts, leaving colleges seeking solutions. The Guided Pathways framework leverages a college's existing practices and restructures…

Over the last decade the governance of primary and secondary schools in the Netherlands has by no means become simpler. This paper sketches recent policy developments and their consequences for the leadership of Boards of Multiple Schools (BMSs) and their school leaders. Thereof we describe the challenges BMSs in the Netherlands currently face to…

The international expansion of higher education has intensified in recent decades with a rapidly growing number of international branch campuses appearing on the scene. This study investigates the economic, cultural and institutional, and educational determinants of transnational higher education on both the extensive margin (number of…

Few things can impact the success of students at community colleges more than budget and planning. Faculty must therefore have a basic comprehension of budget processes and of faculty roles in them. This paper aims to serve various purposes. It provides a primer on how the system-wide budgeting process works prior to colleges receiving monies from…

From the early 1960s through the early 1970s, a new idea drew the interest of local leaders and national networks of educators seeking to further desegregation but concerned about how to do so within the bounds of white resistance. Huge single- or multischool campuses, called education parks, would draw students from broad geographical areas and…

California community colleges are under pressure to increase core student attainment outcomes such as graduation rates, transfer rates, and certificate completion rates. This study examined whether, or how, the allocation of institutional expenditures for instructional, student support, administrative, and total educational and general activities…

IN AN ANALYSIS OF THE TREND OF URBAN JUNIOR COLLEGES TOWARD MULTICAMPUS DISTRICTS, THE ADVANTAGES OF VARIOUS MULTICAMPUS ORGANIZATIONAL PLANS ARE COMPARED. EACH OF THE 10 DISTRICTS STUDIED FOLLOWED ONE OF THREE BASIC ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS--(1) MULTICOLLEGE, IN WHICH THE DISTRICT OPERATES TWO OR MORE INDIVIDUAL COMPREHENSIVE COLLEGES, (2)…

One solution for the problem of increasing student population is the multi-unit junior college district with a governing central office. (MS)

College leaders serve important roles as guides for campus understanding during times of change. Within multicollege districts, campus members deal with several levels of leadership, ranging from department chairs, to the college president, to the system chancellor. These leaders may send conflicting messages regarding change, or have competing…

Often formed in developing state systems, the small multi-campus college appears to be setting a pattern for effective service-delivery in rural areas. (Editor)

Profiles the Dallas County Community College District, which by 1978 will have built seven campuses in twelve years, and records the growth of its services and student enrollment. (NHM)

Reviews the history of St. Petersburg Junior College from its founding as a private nonprofit two-year college in 1927, through its expansion into a multi-campus public institution, and briefly cites some of the college's achievements. (JG)

This series of eight briefs on the California junior college comprises (1) an argument in favor of the name "community" over "junior" college and remarks on a college campus vs. college district and on extended-district vs. single-campus functions, (2) what makes the junior college unique and the reasons for its increasing rate…

Long-range planning from the point of view of the multicampus system is discussed. The need for long-range planning generally is indicated, and special planning problems for the large multicampus district are described. A planning process model that is being developed by the Los Angeles Community College District to meet planning needs is…