A Study On The History Of American Community College

American community college originated from Junior College Movement inthe late19th century and early20th century, which is centre to a two-year localschool with various functions of comprehensive education institutions. Communitycollege as the most dynamic in the higher education in America can find its placein American higher education system depending on unique characteristics and diversified school-running features from the founding to now which makes increasinglyperfect structure and reasonable function of the American higher education. The history over one hundred year of community college makes the American higher education popular. Therefore, analysis, thought and exploration the experience of the American community college mean a great deal to the development of our countryhigher vocational education.The history of education development is the same with the logic history development. The thesis attempts to study and analyze the history of community college,including background of community college, stage of development and the difficulties facing in the future as well as its unique experience and characteristics of school-running of the American community college. On this basis, to sum up the experience of the American community colleges has important referenced significance to thedevelopment of our country’s higher vocational education.This article is divided into five parts. The first part summarizes the background of the American community college; The second part elaborates on the development of American community college with the clue of time; The third part analyzes the difficulties facing the American community college in the future; The fourth part systematically sums up the rich experience and unique feature of American community colleges. In addition, the fifth part analyzes the development of the Americancommunity college to the significance of higher vocational education developmentin our country, namely, Focus on education legislation; Multi channel fund raising education, government should strengthen investment in education; Strengthen “double-professional teachers” training. The school enterprise cooperation.