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Professional development: Setting the context
Author(s) -
Watts Gordon E.,
Hammons James O.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.83
Subject(s) - professional development , context (archaeology) , faculty development , function (biology) , community college , public relations , political science , sociology , pedagogy , medical education , geography , medicine , archaeology , evolutionary biology , biology
Abstract Community college professional development has evolved and grown as a movement for over three decades. Although professional development has struggled at times and still faces some challenges, the need is firmly established, and it has become an essential institutional function.