Community Colleges and Global Counterparts: Defining a Higher Educational Sector -- The Changing Shape of Further and Higher Education in the UK TAFE in Australia -- Sustainability of Massification in East Asian Higher Education: Community Colleges in Hong Kong in Retrospect and Prospects -- Transnational Education Policy and a Globally Competitive Workforce: A Comparative Analysis of Vocational Education and Training Policy in the European Union and the United States -- Developments in the Postsecondary Education Niche in South Africa -- Economics of Education in Afghanistan: Expanding Academic Programs Based on Market Demands Dictated by International Agency Funds Toward Self-Sustainability -- From Pilot Project to Permanent Status: Community Colleges in Vietnam -- Developing Community Education: A New Model of Community Colleges in Mainland China -- Re-envisioning Community Colleges in Nepal: Preparing All Student for Success -- Translating the Community College Concept in India -- Center and Periphery in Israel’s Higher Education -- Second-Tier Higher Education Institutions and the Diversity Challenge: Structural Components Adopted Through a Germanic Lens -- Analyzing the Media Narratives in South Africa’s #FeesMustFall Movement -- Further Education Colleges in the United Kingdom: Providing Education for Other People’s Children -- Academic Education of Israeli Arabs: Transitions from 2006 to 2016 and the Impact on Their Social Integration.

This book explores the complexities of community colleges and global counterparts by focusing on critical analysis of governance, leadership, and mission. These complexities represent emerging and evolving phenomena that impact the institutions’ ability to a) serve students; b) offer sound curricula; c) admit and retain students; d) increase completion rates; e) create viable and sustained partnerships locally and internationally; f) address the needs of unique populations; g) funding and sustainability, and h) support staff development to enhance faculty and staff excellence. This work will introduce and elaborate upon these topics to highlight not only the challenges of the field in a variety of countries worldwide, but to also begin to build comparative understanding of the field at large. In that these institutions are now identified, it is time to academically address their role in higher education.