Community College in America

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The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the major historical turning points in the development of community colleges over the course of the past one hundred years. Primarily, it focuses on how the nature of these institutions transformed from mere variations of the junior college into a medium of educational egalitarianism.

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"The history of the community college as an institution in America is one that stretches back more than one hundred years into the annals of higher education in the New World. Unlike the educational institutions of the Old World that were transplanted to the Americas in an often dogmatic fashion, the community colleges that arose during the course of the twentieth century have proved to be quite innovative right from the start, challenging many of the existing precepts about what constitutes higher education and exactly who deserves to receive it (O'Banion, 1997). For that reason, if no other, community colleges occupy as position of institutional primacy in the history of education in America. The purpose of this study is to examine some of the major historical turning points in the development of community colleges over the course of the past one hundred years. "

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