Going Forward

Abstract

Community colleges now function in an era of extraordinary global sociopolitical, economic, and communications connectivity. Intellectual capital, workforce effectiveness and productivity are valued. Hence, community colleges and their global counterparts have become a key vehicle of economic development and for educating their residents across cultures. The rapidity with which new challenges emerge and the wide scope of those trends increase the need for responsive and transparent institutional behaviors. Increasing Effectiveness of the Community College Financial Model: A Global Perspective for the Global Economy is written at a time when community colleges and their global counterparts are experiencing unprecedented reductions to their budgets while the expectations are increasing for affordable tuition, highly functioning workforce development programs, and improved outcomes measured by student success within and beyond the classrooms.