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Handbook of Comparative Studies on Community Colleges and Global Counterparts

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Rosalind Latiner Raby

    1. College of Education, California State University, Northridge, USA

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  2. Edward J. Valeau

    1. The ELS Group, Monterey, USA

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  • Focuses on critical analysis of governance, leadership, and mission
  • Highlights the challenges of the field in a variety of countries worldwide
  • Begins to build comparative understanding of the field at large

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Table of contents (44 entries)

  1. A Horse of a Different Color? Reexamining International Students at Community Colleges in the USA and Canada

    • Jonathan Z. Friedman

  2. Academic Education of Israeli Arabs: Transitions from 2006 to 2016 and the Impact on Their Social Integration

    • Nitza Davidovitch, Dan Soen, Yaacov Iram

  3. Adult Learning in Italy: Historical Context and Perspectives for a New Provision

    • Luisa Daniele, Claudio Franzosi, Domenico Nobili

  4. Analyzing the Media Narratives in South Africa’s #FeesMustFall Movement

    • Kristin Bailey Wilson, Wouter Van Alebeek

  5. Building a Higher Educational Sector: Volume Introduction

    • Rosalind L. Raby, Edward J. Valeau

  6. Center and Periphery in Israel’s Higher Education

    • Nitza Davidovitch, Dan Soen

  7. Challenges and Opportunities: Community College Development in Afghanistan

    • David J. Roof

  8. Community Colleges and Global Counterparts as Evolving Forms

    • Edward J. Valeau, Rosalind Latiner Raby

  9. Community Colleges and Global Counterparts: Defining a Higher Educational Sector

    • Rosalind Latiner Raby, Edward J. Valeau

  10. Developing a Skilled Workforce Through Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the Philippines

    • Kiran S. Budhrani, Mark M. D’Amico, Jose Lloyd D. Espiritu

  11. Developing Community Education: A New Model of Community Colleges in Mainland China

    • Yi Leaf Zhang

  12. Developments in the Postsecondary Education Niche in South Africa

    • Cassie Kruger, Charl C. Wolhuter

  13. Dimensions of Collaboration Between Community Colleges and Universities in Facilitating Attainment of Baccalaureate Degrees in Career and Technical Education

    • Michael L. Skolnik

  14. Economics of Education in Afghanistan: Expanding Academic Programs Based on Market Demands Dictated by International Agency Funds Toward Self-Sustainability

    • Audree Chase-Mayoral, Fayaz Amiri

  15. Educational Reform Through Sponsored Projects in Curacao: Government-Sponsored Technical and Career Institutions, Postsecondary Education, and the Challenges of Workforce Development

    • Rosita Tormala-Nita

  16. Enablers and Constrainers of Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study from Portugal

    • Anabela Mesquita, Olímpio Castilho

  17. Evaluation of Teaching and Learning Outcomes in Health Systems Management Studies, the Case of Israel: Ideal Versus Actual

    • Rachel Nissanholtz-Gannot, Nitza Davidovitch

  18. Evolution of Community Colleges in Thailand: From Formal Establishment to the Present Time

    • Pattanida Punthumasen, Takayoshi Maki

  19. Feasibility and Challenges on a National Qualifications Framework and Permeability in Education and Training System in Japan

    • Keiichi Yoshimoto

  20. Fostering Creative, Practical, and Professional Engineers: National Institute of Technology (KOSEN) in Japan

    • Asami Shimoda, Takayoshi Maki
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About this book

This book explores the complexities of community colleges and global counterparts by focusing on critical analysis of governance, leadership, and mission. These complexities represent emerging and evolving phenomena that impact the institutions’ ability to a) serve students; b) offer sound curricula; c) admit and retain students; d) increase completion rates; e) create viable and sustained partnerships locally and internationally; f) address the needs of unique populations; g) funding and sustainability, and h) support staff development to enhance faculty and staff excellence. 


This work will introduce and elaborate upon these topics to highlight not only the challenges of the field in a variety of countries worldwide, but to also begin to build comparative understanding of the field at large.  In that these institutions are now identified, it is time to academically address their role in higher education.


Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Education, California State University, Northridge, USA

    Rosalind Latiner Raby

  • The ELS Group, Monterey, USA

    Edward J. Valeau

About the editors

Rosalind Latiner Raby, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at California State University, Northridge in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department of the College of Education and is an affiliate faculty for the ELPS Ed.D. Community College program.  She also serves as the Director of California Colleges for International Education, a non-profit consortium whose membership includes eighty-six California community colleges.  Dr. Raby is the past-NAFSA Education Abroad Knowledge Community College chair for NAFSA, and the past-NAFSA Region XII Community College Coordinator.  Dr. Raby received her Ph.D. in the field of Comparative and International Education from UCLA and since 1984, has worked with community college faculty and administrators to help them internationalize their campuses.  Among her many publications on the topic of international education and community colleges are: “Global Engagement at US Community Colleges.” (2012) Global Engagement: New Modalities No.2 International Briefs for Higher Educational Leaders. American Council on Education (ACE) and The Boston College Center for International Higher Education. Pgs. 9-11; “A comparative view of Colleges of Further Education (UK) and Community Colleges (US): maintaining access in an era of Financial constraint.” with Martin Jephcote. Research in Post-Compulsory Education 17, No. 3, September 2012, 349–366. Financing Community Colleges (2011); Community College Models: Globalization and Higher Education Reform (Spring, 2009); “Community Colleges and Study Abroad” in NAFSA’s Guide to Education Abroad for Advisers and Administrators: 3rd Edition (2005); and Looking to the Future: Report on International and Global education in California Community Colleges, State Chancellor of the California Community Colleges: Sacramento. (1999).


Edward J. Valeau, Ed.D., is Superintendent President Emeritus of Hartnell Community College located in Salinas, California andwhere he served for twelve years. He is also President Emeritus of California Colleges for International Education. Ed is an American Council on Education Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. He is the co author of several books including his latest contribution, Increasing Effectiveness of the Community College Financial Model: A Global Perspective for the Global Economy. He is the founder and Senior Partner of the ELS Group, a national Chief Executive Search 
firm located in Northern California.


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