The community college at the crossroads

Abstract

This chapter is the story of a community college set in the crossroads of the world between Europe, Asia, and Africa. To be more precise, our community college is the English Preparatory School (EPS), which is situated in North Cyprus, part of the Island in the Eastern Mediterranean sea.1 The EPS is a transitional higher education institution that instructs both traditional and nontraditional students. Traditional students are the ones who come straight from high schools and the nontraditional students are mainly the adults who may already have degrees and/or are gainfully employed. Funding for the EPS is shared by the government of North Cyprus and by the board of trustees. 2 The EPS serves students from North Cyprus, Turkey, and over 20 other nations This chapter discusses such issues in the context of a different community college model in a Third World country-North Cyprus. At the end of this chapter, we will summarize the characteristics of this new community college model. In this chapter, we define community college as an institution in which the main purpose informs employers or other educational institutions that its students can succeed in a process that assures their capabilities through remediation and transfer © 2009 Springer Netherlands.