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This book aims to deepen public understanding of the community college and to challenge our longstanding reliance on a deficit model for defining this important, powerful, and transformative institution. Featuring a unique combination of data and research, Sullivan seeks to help redefine, update, and reshape public perception about community colleges. This book gives serious attention to student voices, and includes narratives written by community college students about their experiences attending college at an open admissions institution. Sullivan examines the history of the modern community college and the economic model that is driving much of the current discussion in higher education today. Sullivan argues that the community college has done much to promote social justice and economic equality in America since the founding of the modern community college in 1947 by the Truman Commission.
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Chapter 1 Scott Kiley.- Chapter 2 Julie Larkin.- Chapter 3 Eddie Rivera.- Chapter 4 Sarah Brihan.- Chapter 5 Ashley Partyka.- Chapter 6 Chhan D. Touch.- Chapter 7 Bethany Silver.- Chapter 8 Tim Taylor.- Chapter 9 Sabina Mamedova.- Chapter 10 Matt Dicks.- Chapter 11 Democracy's Unfinished Business.- Chapter 12 "Socialism Means Slavery": Economic Theory, Neoliberalism, and Higher Education.- Chapter 13 The Imaginary Universe of Perfect Competition.- Chapter 14 Different Psychological Worlds.- Chapter 15 Connecticut's PA 12-40 and "Undeserving" Students.- Chapter 16 Freedom, Unfreedom, and the "Common Good".- Chapter 17 A Stealth Revolution.- Chapter 18 Measuring "Success" at Open Admissions Institutions.- Chapter 19 Diverted Dreams, Cruel Hoaxes, and Institutional Ineffectiveness: The Community College "Failure" Narrative.- Chapter 20 The Consequences of a Deified Market Model.- Chapter 21 Literacy in American Lives.- Chapter 22 Conclusion.
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“Sullivan’s volume is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on economics, sociology, writing studies, higher education … providing a comprehensive and accessible understanding of what he sees as the role and the challenges of the community college. … this volume is the one I would choose for my administration to read as it provides a comprehensive and deeply informed perspective. The book provides the reader with one of the most complete pictures of the 2-year college and the material and ideological debates surrounding it.” (Darin L. Jensen, Community College Review, Vol. 46 (4), 2018)
“Sullivan (English, Manchester Community College, Conn.) provides an impressive counter-narrative to the notion that community colleges are failures. … Sullivan’s book is an excellent starting point for students and others interested in the community who wish to accept that challenge. Summing Up: Highlyrecommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals.” (M. Oromaner, Choice, Vol. 55 (10), June, 2018)
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"Sullivan's volume is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on economics, sociology, writing studies, higher education ... providing a comprehensive and accessible understanding of what he sees as the role and the challenges of the community college. ... this volume is the one I would choose for my administration to read as it provides a comprehensive and deeply informed perspective. The book provides the reader with one of the most complete pictures of the 2-year college and the material and ideological debates surrounding it." (Darin L. Jensen, Community College Review, Vol. 46 (4), 2018)
"Sullivan (English, Manchester Community College, Conn.) provides an impressive counter-narrative to the notion that community colleges are failures. ... Sullivan's book is an excellent starting point for students and others interested in the community who wish to accept that challenge. Summing Up: Highlyrecommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals." (M. Oromaner, Choice, Vol. 55 (10), June, 2018)
