The Uneven Distribution of Employee Traingning by Community Colleges : description and explanation
By: DOUGHERTY, Kevin J
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, March 2003Subject(s): Contract Training | Business Community Coleges | Workforce DevelopmentThe Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 586, p. 62-91Abstract: Community colleges have recently attrcted great attention because of their important role in supplying employee training to monay business establishments. But despite this major role, there is surprising variability in community colleges' supply of, and employers' demand for, employee training. While a few community colleges supply a lot of employee training, many provide little. Moreover, althought large employers and ones in industries such as manufacturing tend to utilize the community college heavily, smaleer employers and ones in industries such as retail trade use it much less. This article analyzes the causes of this variability in the demanded responses. Public policy, while encouraging broader community college and industry partnership in employee training must also move to counteract the harmful impacts of extensive employee training on other missions of the community college such as transfer preparation, remedial education, and general education
Community colleges have recently attrcted great attention because of their important role in supplying employee training to monay business establishments. But despite this major role, there is surprising variability in community colleges' supply of, and employers' demand for, employee training. While a few community colleges supply a lot of employee training, many provide little. Moreover, althought large employers and ones in industries such as manufacturing tend to utilize the community college heavily, smaleer employers and ones in industries such as retail trade use it much less. This article analyzes the causes of this variability in the demanded responses. Public policy, while encouraging broader community college and industry partnership in employee training must also move to counteract the harmful impacts of extensive employee training on other missions of the community college such as transfer preparation, remedial education, and general education
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