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标题：Community college community
期刊名称：The New England's Journal of Higher Education
印刷版ISSN：1938-5978
出版年度：1999
卷号：Summer 1999
出版社：New England Board of Higher Education

Community college community

Former American Council on Education President Robert H. Atwell once remarked that community colleges, with their cutting-edge workforce training programs and flexibility to respond to changing student needs "are America's most exciting colleges."

"Community colleges," Atwell added, "often are more vital to the social and economic health of their states and communities than the local research universities."

Now, the two-year public institutions are getting some key organizational support.

The Denver-based Education Commission of the States was awarded a three-year, $750,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Education to create a Center for Community College Policy. The center will develop an electronic information clearinghouse to collect, analyze and disseminate information on community college policy issues, commission new research on the issues and work with state and federal policymakers.

The New England Consortium for Community College Leadership, meanwhile, was created to research, develop and direct a leadership development program for community college administrators and faculty. The consortium planned to convene New England community college presidents and trustees and nationally prominent educators in Maine in October 1999 for three days of informal sessions devoted to working with local communities.