Challenges Facing Rural Community Colleges: Issues and Problems Today and Over the Past 30 Years

For over 30 years, researchers and practitioners have identified challenges unique to small, rural community colleges. The purpose of this study was to examine the distinctive problems facing rural community colleges today and the challenges those institutions must address to fulfill their mission i...

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Published inCommunity college journal of research and practice Vol. 30; no. 8; pp. 641 - 655
Main Authors Pennington, Kevin, Williams, Mitchell R., Karvonen, Meagan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 01.09.2006
Routledge
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College Faculty
Community Colleges
Educational Change
Educational Equity (Finance)
Grantsmanship
Institutional Mission
Kansas
Rural Areas
Rural Schools
School Demography
Teacher Recruitment
Technology Uses in Education
Kansas
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Summary:For over 30 years, researchers and practitioners have identified challenges unique to small, rural community colleges. The purpose of this study was to examine the distinctive problems facing rural community colleges today and the challenges those institutions must address to fulfill their mission in rural America. There are 5 current challenges commonly identified by 10 rural community college administrators in Kansas: technology use, grant writing, an evolving student population and corresponding changes to the mission, funding inequalities between institutions, and hiring qualified people. Identified challenges were compared with problems described in the literature from the last 30 years.
ISSN:1066-8926
1521-0413
DOI:10.1080/10668920600746086