At The Beginning Of The 21st Century The Reform Of The American Community College Study

American Community College has experienced more than100years, becomingthe most dynamic area of American higher education. American Community Collegeplays an important role in the American Higher Education. Especially in the21stcentury, the U.S. federal and state governments make a series of policies to promotereforms to ensure that community college enrollment and community colleges toimprove the quality of Education. So the researches on the American CommunityCollege, both in China and on the development of community colleges around theworld have an important reference and reference value. The thesis through theintroduction of reform in American Community Colleges, at the beginning of the21stcentury, Explains the background of the reform and implementation of major policyreform, sums up the characteristics and problems of reform. The last part will discussthe reform of American Community College enlightens for Community Collegereform in China.This thesis is composed of six parts as the following:Part one: Introduction. This part is a brief introduction on this thesis’ researchinggoal, researching significance, researching content and its researching approaches. Italso introduces the current research situation as well as some relevant concepts.Part two: The historical process of American Community college reforms. Thispart describes the four main stages of development process.Part three: The analysis of American community college reform background atthe beginning of the21ts century. The analysis is from financial crisis influence onAmerican Higher Education and American community college calling to reform main problems.Part four: The American community college reform policy and theimplementation at the beginning of21st century. This Part introduces the U.S. federalgovernment, state governments (including California and Texas for example), theAmerican Association of Community Colleges launched a major reform of policy andpolicy implementation.Part five: Features and problems about community college reform at thebeginning of the21stcentury. This part summarizes the features of Americancommunity college reform, meanwhile some existing problems in the process of thereform are pointed out and reasons are analyzed.Part six: Enlightenment for American community college reform in our county.Combined American community college reform with the reality of communitycollege in our country, this part will sum up some enlightenments for our county’scommunity college reform.