Community College Review articles from April 2008

Community College Review archives from April 2008

Editor's note.
April 1, 2008... The Community College Review depends on the volunteer efforts of knowledgeable reviewers who carefully assess manuscripts and provide the authors and me with valuable feedback. This feedback helps determine which manuscripts will be published....

Security, dignity, caring relationships, and meaningful work: needs motivating participation in a job-training program.(Report)
April 1, 2008... Researchers asked 17 participants in a job-training program to describe their personal struggles following an economic restructuring. Examined through a critical theoretical lens, findings indicate that the learners enrolled in the program to...

Performing gender in the workplace: gender socialization, power, and identity among women faculty members.(Report)
April 1, 2008... Organizational cultures shape and reinforce socially appropriate roles for men and women. Drawing on a performativity framework, which assumes that gender is socially constructed through gendered "performances," this study employs interviews...

The institutional vision of community colleges: assessing style as well as substance.(Report)
April 1, 2008... Providing an accessible and adaptable education has become an increasingly daunting task for community colleges. Administrators must formulate adaptive strategies as well as purposefully articulate them. A content analysis of the mission and...

Remembering Raymond J. Young and the grass-roots development of community colleges from 1950 to 1976.(Editor's Choice Essay)(Essay)
April 1, 2008... Raymond J. Young (1923-2007) played a key role in the post-World War II development of community colleges in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and elsewhere. This article describes his scholarly and professional contributions in developing "bottom-up,"...

Levin, J. S. (2007). Nontraditional Students and Community Colleges: The Conflict of Justice and Neoliberalism.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Levin, J. S. (2007). Nontraditional Students and Community Colleges: The Conflict of Justice and Neoliberalism. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. DOE 10.1177/0091552108315591 Nontraditional Students and Community Colleges: The Conflict of...