ProgramCIP 13.0407

Community College Administration

A program that focuses on the principles and techniques of administering community and junior colleges and related postsecondary systems, the study of community and junior colleges as objects of applied research, and that may prepare individuals to function as administrators in such settings. Includes instruction in community and junior college finance; policy and planning studies; curriculum; faculty and labor relations; higher education law; student services; research on community and junior colleges; institutional research; marketing and promotion; and issues of evaluation, accountability and philosophy.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Community College Leadership, Community College Education.