Speech and the community college

The main purpose of the educational program at the two‐year college is to facilitate the upward social, economic and educational mobility of its students. Therefore, the speech program should be consonant with that purpose. To achieve that purpose under Open Admissions in the City University of New York seems increasingly to require remediation of the students’ communication skills in English. Oral language skills make a preferred vehicle for introducing remediation in all the communication skills. Beyond that, the student should learn those skills important to his everyday situations: interpersonal and small group.