Gateway to opportunity? : a history of the community college in the United States /

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Community colleges hold immense promise if they can overcome their historical legacy and be re-institutionalized with unified missions, clear goals of educational success, and adequate financial resources. This book presents the history in all its complexity so that policy makers and practitioners m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beach, J. M. (Josh M.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Community colleges > United States > History.
Community college students > United States > History.
College students > Conduct of life > History.
Collèges communautaires > États-Unis > Histoire.
Étudiants de collèges communautaires > États-Unis > Histoire.
Étudiants > Morale pratique > Histoire.
College students > Conduct of life
Community college students
Community colleges
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The creation and institutionalization of Junior Colleges in the United States, 1900-1980's
  • Institutional ambiguity
  • Overburdened and underfunded
  • The Ambiguous legacy of the communitiy college

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