Re-visioning Community Colleges traces the development and generational
evolution of community colleges, explores the past success and future
capacity of community colleges as disruptive innovators, and analyzes
this sector's unique advantages and vulnerabilities. Ultimately, Sydow
and Aflred presents alternative futures for community colleges as
they--like all sectors of higher education--face rapidly changing
environmental forces and conditions. Re-visioning, the primary thrust of
the book, is the process of foresight into the shape that community
colleges will likely take in the future, on the basis of their growth
and innovation trajectory and in response to the dramatic industry shift
that is currently underway in the higher education enterprise.