Author: Duane E. Leigh

Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0880993286

Describes community colleges as institutions with several missions: supplying courses to students interested in transferring to a university college, providing occupational training adapted to local labour market needs as well as adult basic education and workforce development. Using the 1996 cohort of first-time freshmen, discusses results of educational research into the questions to which extent the colleges meet the education and training needs of immigrants and whether the attainment responds to changing skill demands of the local economy.