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A New Model for Recruiting International Students: The 2 + 2
The system of higher education in the United States offers an opportunity that is not available in quite the same way to any of the major English-speaking competitors for international students: a nationwide network of community colleges. This network affords the option to present to students abroad a much more affordable baccalaureate degree choice, coupled with a uniquely broadening cultural experience by marrying two years at a community college with pre-arranged and guaranteed articulation to a four-year partner institution. This \"two-plus-two\" model exists in many areas of domestic study and lends itself perfectly to a new model for international recruitment. Under the \"Two-Plus-Two\" model, one or several community colleges contract with one or several universities both to recruit and provide educational programming to international students. For greatest simplicity, the model works most efficiently when one university establishes an agreement with one or more community colleges, simplifying the articulation issues. This symbiotic relationship provides both the participating colleges and the student participants with advantages that none can provide independently. As with any collaborative model, a number of obstacles must be recognized and addressed if the model is to work effectively. This article discusses these advantages and obstacles. Through the leadership of Joel Glassman, Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a Two-Plus-Two collaboration has been established with three of the state's community colleges that are in its initial evaluation phase. Jefferson College, south of St. Louis, Crowder College in rural southwest Missouri, and Moberly Area Community College in the central part of the state form the other partners in the collaborative. A description of this collaboration is also presented. (Contains 3 tables.)
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A new model for recruiting international students
On the basis of the data reported in \"Open doors: Report on international educational exchange\" between 2002 and 2004 the author describes in the first part of this article the development of international enrollment in the United States. Generally there is a trend towards a decline of international students for reasons of raised costs, difficulties in obtaining visa, success of international competitors, international political tensions et al. Whereas the costs for tuition and fees, room and board for four-year-institutions increased by 6% from 2000-2002, community college (two-years) costs for the same services and within the same period rose by only 4,5%. Due to these facts the \"international two-plus-two\" model has been worked out. It comprises \"the option to present to students abroad a much more affordable baccalaureate degree choice, coupled with a uniquely broadening cultural experience by marrying two years at a community college with pre-arranged and guaranteed articulation to a four-year partner institution. ... Under [this] model, one or several community colleges contract with one or several universities both to recruit and provide educational programming to international students. ... This... relationship provides both the participating colleges and the student participants with advantages that none can provide independently\": 1. Reduced costs and greater efficiencies in recruiting, 2. Significantly reduced costs to the student, 3. Broader social and cultural opportunities, 4. Residual articulation and transfer benefits. The author also mentions the barriers to the effective two-plus-two which, however, are not insurmountable. He finally gives a successful example for a college-university consortium in the state of Missouri. (DIPF/Kr.).
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The 4 Lessons That Community Colleges Can Learn From For-Profit Institutions
Four principles distinguish the best proprietary colleges. Unless public colleges adopt these principles, the appeal of proprietary technical education in the US will grow, drawing away even more students from the public sector and reducing state revenues to colleges that are commonly determined by enrollment-driven formulas.
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The Community College As Town Crier
More alarmingly, \"American students and young adults place anywhere from the middle to the bottom of the pack in all three continuing comparative studies of achievement in mathematics, science, and general literacy in the advanced industrial nations,\" according to a 2007 report by the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce (National Center of Education and Economy 2007). Intercultural learning is already one of the new basics in a contemporary liberal education, because it is essential for work, civil society, and social life (Association of American Colleges and Universities 2007).
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GLOBAL EDUCATION: AN EMERGING IMPERATIVE FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Critics of community college's emphasis on international programming and, thus, global education, may argue that as community-based institutions, the focus should be on local issues and problems and not global matters. In response, advocates contend that global issues do have an impact locally and, consequently, community colleges have an obligation to lead communities toward a more global focus. Here, Floyd et al describe current, relevant literature and event and discuss issues and challenges facing community college leaders in the new educational imperative of global education inclusion.
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Sliding Up the Slippery Slope: The Community College Baccalaureate
Most would support the notion, for example, that an institution that successfully moves baccalaureate level accountants to master's level accountants or turns baccalaureate in political science graduates into lawyers, is making no greater social contribution than one that provides an unemployed single mother with the skills needed to become a successful computer network administrator or registered nurse. The danger in sliding up this slippery slope is that if, as the horizontal or linear view maintains, community colleges provide a service of equal value to that of other sectors of higher education, by trying to become more like them, we may be compromising that unique social contribution.
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GETTING TOGETHER
If your folks are divorced, you may have lost contact with the parent who didn't get custody of you. If so, now that the holidays are here, you may decide that you want to get in touch with your mom or dad again. Here is some advice from Dr. Elliott D. Landau, a family therapist from Salt Lake City, Utah:
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