Abstract: collection of essays presents the updated positions of nine critics of the community college who from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s participated in a debate with two-year college proponents over many of the fundamental assumptions of the community college movement. volume contains: (1) From Mass to Class in Higher Education,' by William M. Birenbaum; (2) Colleges and Social Stratification in the 1980s, by Jerome Karabel; (3) The Devaluation of Transfer: Current Explanations and Possible Causes, by Alison Bernstein; (4) Vocational Education: More False Promises, by Fred L. Pincus; (5) Lifelong Learning: New Form of Tracking, by L. Steven Zwerling; (6) Minority Students and the Community College, by Reginald Wilson; (7) A Place for Women? by Marilyn Gittell; (8) Independent Students at Two-Year Institutions and the Future of Financial Aid, by W. Lee Hansen and Jacob O. Stampen; (9) Strangers to Our Shores, by Howard B. London; and (10) Sources and Information: Social Role of the Community College, by Jim Palmer. (EJV) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** NEW DIRECTIONS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES Community College and Its Critics L. Steven Zwerling, Editor
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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