Rethinking Cooling out at Public Community Colleges: An Examination of Fiscal and Demographic Trends in Higher Education and the Rise of Statewide Articulation Agreements.
Rethinking Cooling out at Public Community Colleges: An Examination of Fiscal and Demographic Trends in Higher Education and the Rise of Statewide Articulation Agreements.
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重新思考公立社区学院的降温：对高等教育财政和人口趋势以及全州衔接协议兴起的审查。
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10.1111/j.1467-9620.2006.00657.x
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发表时间：
2006
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通讯作者：
Jeffrey C. Sun
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作者：
G. M. Anderson;M. Alfonso;Jeffrey C. Sun
最近的数据表明，很大一部分进入社区学院的学生正在确定终端证书或职业副学士学位，而不是学术专业或转移作为他们的短期目标。尽管如此，在20世纪80年代和90年代的大部分时间里，各州制定了衔接协议作为政策工具，以促进学生从公立两年制院校转到四年制院校。这个难题提出了一个有趣的两部分问题：在社区学院入学者对转学的需求没有显著增加的情况下，为什么各州颁布了这些协议，以及这些立法趋势可能产生哪些潜在影响？运用国家相对自治理论，我们认为，衔接协议的兴起构成了一个新的国家战略，以科普高等教育拨款的停滞，学费成本的螺旋上升，以及对负担得起的高等教育的过度需求。
Recent data indicate that a large proportion of students entering community colleges are identifying terminal certificate or occupational associate degrees instead of academic majors or transfer as their short-term goal. Despite this, throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, states established articulation agreements as policy instruments to enhance the transfer of students from public 2-year institutions to 4-year institutions. This conundrum raises an interesting two-part question: In the absence of a significant increase in the demand for transfer by community colleges entrants, why have states enacted these agreements, and what potential impacts may arise from these legislative trends? Applying the state relative autonomy theory, we contend that the rise of articulation agreements constitutes a new state strategy to cope with the stagnation of higher education appropriations, the spiraling costs of tuition, and an excess demand for affordable higher education.