Since 1901, community collegesColleges in the United States have played an important role in the higher educationHigher education sector. These unique institutions serve multiple important missions, which include providing open and relatively affordable accessAccess to college, training workers in skillsSkills demanded by industry, helping students achieve academic success, and otherwise serving the community’s educational needs. Community colleges are unique not only because of the expectation that they fulfil these multiple missions, but also because all levels of government in the United States—federal, state, and local—play key roles in these institutions’ functioning. In the United States, community colleges exist within—not outside—larger systems of higher education. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
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