 | International Education at Community Colleges This book bringstogether distinguished scholars, community college practitioners, and emergingleaders to expand upon existing theories, provide reflection on practice, anddemonstrate the dynamic nature of community college internationalization. Thereis a special challenge for United States community colleges to move fromselected international programs that impact a few students to sustainablechange that influences the entire college community. A key importance is realization that reformis not based on chance, but on intentional designs that are intended to guidefuture endeavors. The research, casestudies, and experiences of the authors in this book are both inspiring andcritical in the quest to encourage an academic shift for long-term change thatpromotes international literacy as an integral component of the communitycollege and celebrates the needs of the changing local communities. RosalindLatiner Raby is Senior Lecturer in the Educational Leadership and PolicyStudies Department of the College of Education at California State University,Northridge, USA, where she is also Affiliate Faculty for the Ed.D. CommunityCollege program. She serves as theDirector of California Colleges for International Education, a non-profitconsortium of eighty-nine Californiacommunity colleges. EdwardJ. Valeau is Superintendent President Emeritus of Hartnell Community College,USA, President Emeritus of California Colleges for International Education, andis the founder and Senior Partner of the ELS Group, a national Chief ExecutiveSearch firm. |
