| Summary: | 博士 === 國立中正大學 === 成人及繼續教育研究所 === 91 === The Study of the Implementation of the Learning College Project by the League for Innovation in the Community College in the United States
Abstract
Community colleges were designed uniquely as American adult higher education institutions with a 100-year history of development. There are currently more than one thousand and two hundreds community colleges, a share of about half of the total number of higher education institutions in the United States. More than 50% of the higher education students have registered in the community colleges, which have played an important part in American higher education system. Towards the new century, due to the increasingly rapid changes and economic and societal pressures, the community colleges have to adapt themselves and take innovation in order to cope with these changes and pressures. The learning college has emerged as one of the important transformation models for the community colleges. The League for Innovation in the Community College in the United States is one of the most dynamic organizations in the community college world. It was established for thirsty-four years with more than 750 member institutions of the League’s Alliance, and has served for more than 300,000 educators and 8-million students. The main aim of this study was to look at the Learning College Project implemented by the League for Innovation since 2002. The specific purposes of this study include an exploration of the backgrounds and developments of the learning college, the project formation, implementation and accountabilities, and the challenge facing the community colleges in the process of their becoming learning colleges.
The researcher carried out an interview with team members of the Vanguard Learning Colleges and the Project Director and relevant Staffs in the United States, so as to understand the process of the project formation, implementation and challenge concerned. For exploring the accountabilities of the Project, a questionnaire survey was conducted via the Internet, and copies of the questionnaire were sent to the 12 team-members and non-team-members of the Vanguard Learning Colleges for collecting their opinions on the differences of their colleges between before and after the Project implementation.
Based upon the interview and survey, eight conclusions and suggestions were drawn, and advice for conducting relevant researches aboard in the future was made as well.
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