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Breaking the Access Barriers: A Profile of Two-Year Colleges by Michael Brick — 1972The community junior college is not a monolithic movement but,
rather, a series of highly diverse two-year institutions populated
by heterogeneous groups of students and faculty. To mention just a
few of the variables, the institutions may be large, medium sized,
or small; county controlled, church affiliated, or independent;
focused upon a single curriculum or offering a veritable potpouiri
of curricula; fifty-years-old or opened last week. Similarly, the
students may be young or old; vocationally oriented, set upon
transferring to a four-year institution, or only interested in
self-improvement; well-to-do or frankly poor; WASP or Black. In
fact, a community college student may be practically anyone at all.
Faculty also show similar diversity. Some have Ph.D.'s, some no
college degree at all; some come from teaching at four-year
institutions, some from industry; most are committed to an idea of
egalitarian education, but others think that the community college
is diluting the standards of American higher education.
While diverse, these institutions, students, and faculty do hold
numerous traits in... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Michael Brick
Teachers College, Columbia University
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