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A Researcher's Perspective
Author(s) -
Bailey Thomas R.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.114
Subject(s) - categorization , perspective (graphical) , diversity (politics) , computer science , sociology , data science , management science , knowledge management , engineering ethics , artificial intelligence , engineering , anthropology
Abstract The diversity of community colleges justifies a more subtle system of categorization than the traditional Carnegie system, but the large number of missions taken on by community colleges complicates this goal. Any system must be based on a clear understanding of the goals of the categorization. This chapter makes a distinction between a characteristics‐based system and an output‐based system and uses that distinction to discuss the proposed classification schemes.