The Community College as College: Should the Liberal Arts Survive in Community Colleges?

to their program? T -M-he -he community college's contribution to American higher education can be summarized in one word: access. By maintaining open admissions, designing programs for all types of students, and making it easy for anyone to attend, the community colleges have attracted a cohort of people who might not otherwise have participated in education beyond high school. They enroll one-third of all students in higher education, more than 40 percent of the entering fulltime freshmen. For years their enrollments have increased at a rate