Globalization and community college model development

Abstract

Globalization serves as the impetus for sociopolitical and economic change. As a dynamic force, globalization perpetuates a borderless world where practices and ideas are shared across space and time aided by technology, mobility, communication, socioeconomic relationships, and environmental interdependence. As an identified concept, globalization impacts institutional mission and curricula that internationalize the campus, and in so doing, supports intercampus and intercountry relationships as a requisite seed for internal change that reflects how the institution responses to [globalization] pressures (Levin, 2001, p. x). This chapter profiles how community college models are affected by, and perpetuate conditions that advance, globalization in terms of (a) a global-local dichotomy; (b) economic and humanitarian philosophical influences upon which models are based; and (c) positive and negative consequences that result from the globalization process. © 2009 Springer Netherlands.