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The Community College as a Baccalaureate-Granting Institution
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 28, Number 1, Fall 2004
- pp. 1-22
- 10.1353/rhe.2004.0029
- Article
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The introduction of baccalaureate degree programming and credentialing expands the mission and may lead to the alteration of the institutional identity of the community college. This study examines baccalaureate-degree granting community colleges through the lenses of both globalization theory and institutional theory, in a multisite, two-nation investigation. In addressing potential outcomes of baccalaureate-degree-granting status for community colleges, this study questions whether the institution can maintain its traditional role.