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The community college is the largest single sector of the U.S. higher education network. As of 2005, 40 percent of newly enrolled undergraduate students attended community colleges. The American two-year school is a vast, rapidly changing, and under-studied institution. The aim of The Community College and the Good Society is tocritically analyze the internal changes and external forces that shifted the focus of the two-year college--from the liberal arts to job training.

Chad Hanson raises a series of questions about what is lost or forsaken when public institutions become...

Students become new and different people through the course of their education. When students earn the right to say, -I am a college graduate, - that new status becomes a part of who they are.

The authors in this volume--scholars from a range of fields--offer methods that staff and faculty can use to explore the process through which students develop new personal, civic, and professional identities. The research and ideas in this volume can assist in designing approaches to encourage student growth, and to help us understand what it means to attend and become a graduate of a college...