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AUTHOR Zwerling, L. Steven, Ed. TITLE The College and Its Critics. New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 54. INSTITUTION ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, Los Angeles, Calif. SPONS AGENCY Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. REPORT NO ISBN-87589-708-8 PUB DATE Jun 86 CONTRACT 400-83-0030 NOTE 127p. AVAILABLE FROMJossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, 433 California St., San Francisco, CA 94104 ($9.95). PUB TYPE Viewpoints (120) -- Information Analyses - ERIC Information Analysis Products (071) Collected Works - Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT New Directions for Community Colleges; v14 n2 Jun 1986

EDRS PRICE MFO1 /PC06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *College Role; College Transfer Students; *Community Colleges; Continuing Education; *Educational Assessment; Educational Discrimination; Females; Minority Groups; *Politics of Education; Relevance (Education); *Social Responsibility; Social Stratification; Student Financial Aid; Two Year Colleges; Vocational Education ABSTRACT A 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. The volume contains: (1) From Mass to Class in Higher Education,' by William M. Birenbaum; (2) "Community 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: A 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: The Social Role of the Community College," by Jim Palmer. (EJV)

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