Community college institutional effectiveness: Perspectives of campus stakeholders

Community College Review

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 302-323

  Skolits, Gary J ^a   Graybeal, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community college effectiveness; Institutional effectiveness; Institutional research

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247576678     PISSN: 00915521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0091552106299493     Document Type: Article

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