Fostering the Liberal Arts in the 21st-Century Community College - New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 163

From the Editor
The founding mission of the public, comprehensive community college included vocational training, developmental education, community education, and its collegiate function: transfer and the liberal arts. Early on in its history, however, the community college's mission began to drift toward vocational training to such an extent that at the local, state, and national level the dominant narrative of the 21st-century community college portrays a job (re)training center more than an educational institution. While numerous books have described the growing threat to the liberal arts in 4-year colleges and universities, the response to "mission shift" within the community college has been muted. This volume offers a timely, much-needed, and persuasive argument for the importance of a liberal arts education, particularly in the humanities, for all students attending a public, comprehensive community college.

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Summary

Liberal arts education is one of the founding missions of community colleges. However, it has drifted toward vocational training to such an extent that the dominant narrative of the 21st-century community college portrays a job (re)training center more than an educational institution.

Product details

• Authors: Cc, Keith Kroll
• Assisted by: Keith Kroll (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2013
• EAN: 9781118834558
• ISBN: 978-1-118-83455-8
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: New Directions for Community C; J-B CC Single Issue Community Colleges; New Directions for Community C
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries