Abstract
ABSTRACT U.S. rural community colleges serve approximately 3.4 million students, yet there is very little research on these institutions. We conducted a mulitple case study to develop a typology of rural community college locations. We gathered and analyzed publicly available data (n = 25) and private institutional data (n = 6) and conducted in-person interviews (n = 27), site visits (n = 7), and telephone interviews (n = 21) across Pennsylvania’s rural community college locations. Our typology includes two main types: the college hub and satellite sites, and six satellite sub-types: focused site, outreach site, scaled hub, virtual site, partner site, and closing site. Our findings indicate the need to adjust state funding formulas to account for the work of rural community college employees and the interdependence of the rural locations, as well as to maximize the use of rural community college locations to the benefit of constituents and communities.
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