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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2020
Within the last ten years only the most bold and innovative American community colleges have ventured to make an association between on-campus education and international education. Wasn't the latter better left to senior institutions which were equipped to handle highly technical, sophisticated, elitist manpower needs? Most all government grants and contracting involving American higher education and U.S. or foreign governments flowed to and through senior universities. For the most part this pattern remains the same today.
But a viable argument has persistently been raised over the last ten years for increasing involvement of community-based junior colleges in international affairs. Raymond E. Schultz and others, documenting the maturation process of community colleges, have noted the urgent need for community college-type institutions abroad to train middle-manpower work forces and provide for greater human capital development through non-traditional higher education.
1 Comments from his address to the Second Annual Conference on Internationalizing the Community College, January 14-16, 1979, Walt Disney World, Florida.
2 Raymond E. Schultz, “Education for International Understanding: A role for Community Colleges,” U.S. Office of Education, Eric Document 075 015, 1973. Also see, Yarrington, Roger, (ed.), International Development of The Junior College Idea, (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Junior Colleges, 1970)Google Scholar and Glick, Ervie L., “An Unexplored Realm: International Education,” Community College Frontiers, Vol. 7, No. 1 (fall 1978)Google Scholar.
3 Proposal to Establish a World Community College, (Mimeo, 1975). A copy of the proposal may be had by writing the author. Also see, Allan, George B., “The International Institute: A World View of The Community College Movement: Community College Frontiers, Vol. 3, No. 2 (winter 1975)Google Scholar.
4 American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (ed.). Internationalizing the Community College, (Washington, D.C.: AACJC, 1978). This publication was the final report of the May 1978 Conference at Wingspread.
Several authorities have written on the community college movement in other countries, including Yarrington, op. cit. Also see, Kintzer, Frederick C., “Community Colleges in Other Nations,” Community College Frontiers, Vol. 4, No. 4 (summer 1976)Google Scholar: Meinhardt, Harry, “The Volkshochschulen: Germany's Community College,” Community College Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (summer 1961)Google Scholar: Hoffman, Allan, “Community Colleges for Developing Nations,” Community College Frontiers, Vol. 5, No. 1 (fall 1976)Google Scholar.
5 King, Maxwell C. and Breuder, Robert L., (eds.), The Community College in the World Community (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1979)Google Scholar.
6 Merritt, Richard L. and Coombs, Fred S., “Politics and Educational Reform,” Comparative Education Review, Vol. 21 , Nos. 2/3 (June/October 1977)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
7 Shannon, William G., “A Survey of International/lntercultural education In Two-Year Colleges—1976,” (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of Education, 1978)Google Scholar.
8 The endeavors of early writers on the economics of education such as Theodore W. Schultz and Mark Blaug are summarized in Sobel, Irvin, “The Human Capital Revolution In Economic Development: Its Current History and Status,” Comparative Education Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (June 1978)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.