US Community Colleges

Innovators and Influencers

Authors

  • Richard R. Hopper USAID

Keywords:

Workforce development, microcredentials, cost-sharing, developmental education, corequisite model, guided pathways, dual and concurrent enrollment

Abstract

US community colleges are scrappy, agile, and adaptive. Some recent innovations have been workforce development and microcredentials; a diversification of cost-sharing arrangements for professional development; transition of traditional remedial education toward developmental education; a simplification of administrative hurdles to speed up graduation via guided pathways; and college credit to high school students who take college-level courses through dual and concurrent enrollment. These innovations have influenced the university sector to embrace similar changes.

 

 

Author Biography

Richard R. Hopper, USAID

Richard R. Hopper is chief of party, USAID-Vietnam Partnership for Higher Education Reform, Hanoi, Vietnam, and former president of Kennebec Valley Community College, Maine, US. Email: rick_hopper@post.harvard.edu.

 

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Published

2023-04-17

How to Cite

Hopper, R. (2023). US Community Colleges: Innovators and Influencers. International Higher Education, (114), 9–11. Retrieved from https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/16417

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No. 114 (2023): Spring Issue

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