A Study On Community College Policy Of The Obama Administration

For a long time,community colleges have been marginalized in America system of higher education.Faced with a severe financial crisis internal and a serious decline in the world's ranking in higher educational attainment external,the Obama administration regard community colleges as a means of tackling the financial crisis and restoring America's leadership in educational attainment.The Obama administration's educational policies focusing on community colleges have played an important role in alleviating the higher unemployment rate,maintaining stability of the nation and society,expanding the equity of higher education and improving the educational attainment of community colleges to a certain extent.This paper includes four parts,as follows:Part ?:The introduction describes five themes,including the research question and significance of the study,the current situation of the research on the issue,the concept of cores and the research methods.The background of making community colleges policies by the Obama administration.Community colleges have been marginalized in the America system of higher education for a long time.The financial crisis causes negative impacts on GDP,labor productivity and unemployment rate.The United States has lost its leadership in the world's ranking of higher education attainment.Part ?:The main contents of community colleges policies by the Obama administration.This part sorts out and discusses the American Graduation Initiative,The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act and America's College Promise Act of 2015.This part studys the introduction and legislation,the main content and the characteristics,trying to systematic research the community college policies by the Obama administration.Part ?:The evaluation of community colleges policies by the Obama administration,including American Graduation Initiative,The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act and America's College Promise Act of 2015.It also examines the usefulness of the policies,including alleviating the higher unemployment rate,maintaining stability of the nation and society,expanding the equity of higher education and improving the educational attainment of community colleges to a certain extent.Part ?:The inspiration of community colleges policies by the Obama administration for us.Combining the facts of ourselves,this part introduces the successful experiences from reforming the grants management mechanism,innovating new model "school-enterprise integration",and creating platforms for higher vocational colleges with other stakeholders.