A Study On The Function Of American Community Colleges

Community colleges are American invention that put publicly funded higher education at close-to-home facilities, beginning more than 100 year with Joliet Junior College. Since then, they have been inclusive institutions that welcome all who desire to learn, regardless of wealth, heritage, or previous academic experience. With its former institution-Junior College funded in1896, the first public community college opened in 1902.Nowadays, the higher education in China makes a great progress after Chinese open-door policy. The gross college enrolment ratio has raised from 9.8% in the year of 1998,13.3% in 2001 to more than 15% in 2002 during Chinese extended policy of higher education, which indicates the era of mass period of higher education from former′s elite one.American's higher education is the most advanced one of the world. And America is the first county to enter mass higher education. In its mass era, it is the funding of community colleges that formed three levels of higher education structure with Research University and Four-year College; its associate degree completed the whole degree system together with bachelor, master and doctor degree.The experiences of mass higher education in America comes along with the enormous change of function system and functional reallocation of every college level. American community colleges have found its right place in whole higher...