All access is not equal: The need for collegiate education in community colleges
✍ Scribed by Judith S. Eaton
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Weight
- 527 KB
- Volume
- 1994
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0194-3081
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✦ Synopsis
The community college has been the nation's primary site of access to higher education. More students have enrolled in community colleges than in any other individual educational sector. The enormous enrollment growth in the higher education enterprise to which Americans frequently point with pride could not have occurred without the two-year school. Central to occupylng this important position has been the community college's investment in its collegiate role: providing the liberal arts and transferable career education that together make up the institution's collegiate function.
Defining Collegiate Education
What is collegiate education and how can it be sustained in an era of conflicting demands? Strong collegiate education in a community college means that its collegiate function is dominant. This occurs when four conditions prevail. First, structured, sequential liberal arts and career education offerings drive the curriculum. They contain the majority of enrollments and offerings. Second, primary attention is given to students' development of college-level competencies through these curricula. These competencies are more important than, for example, "precollege" competencies earned in developmental and remedial
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This material is based mainly on J. S. Eaton's Strengthening Collegiate Education in Cornmunity Colleges published by Jossey-Bass in 1994.