1st Meeting with Supervisor

Date: Sep 10, 2009
Time: 17.00 - 18.00

Key points:

- Do teachers at LU know about LA education?
- Do I know what LU CC graduates do?
- Does LU enjoy an edge since it has rolled out LA education for more than a decade, given all uni follow suit with the 3-3-4 implementation?
- What makes LU's LA unique?
- Stakeholders include senior mgmt, academic staff, parents
- Does LU have to recalibrate LA education?
- How is the notion of US CC embedded in local CC? Any comparisons?

- What are my main arguments? conceptual framework? Theories?

Actions:

1. Write a 1-pg document containing:

* research problems with sub-problems
* key concepts
* important lit (3-4 essential books/ journal articles)
* conceptual models
* methodology/ preliminary hypothesis
* expected outcomes

2. Schedule (when to deliver the research seminar)

3. Re-send previous UWA research proposal

Submitted on 24 Sep.

Suggested readings:

1. Community college models : globalization and higher education reform
By Rosalind Latiner Raby, Edward J. Valeau.
London : Springer, c2009.

2. Global Development of Community Colleges, Technical Colleges, and Further Education Programs
by Paul A. Elsner, George R. Boggs, and Judith T. Irwin (Paperback - Nov 30, 2008)

3. Dimensions of the Community College: International, Intercultural, and Multicultural Perspectives (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)
by Norma Tarrow (Hardcover - April 1, 1996)

4. Do Community Colleges Respond to Local Needs
by Duane E. Leigh and Andrew M. Gill (Paperback - Aug 31, 2007)

5. Community College Faculty: At Work in the New Economy
by John S. Levin, Susan T. Kater, and Richard L. Wagoner (Hardcover - Jan 19, 2006)