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June, 2007

Community College Identity Fragmentation in the 21st century

By Jeffrey Ross

In a recent article posted at Insidehighered.com, “Second Thoughts About ‘Professionalism,'” I questioned the culture of professionalism which has emerged in American community colleges. The basic premise of that discussion was that the community college identity, or its purpose, has been blurred by “external” forces. I considered that community colleges have failed to develop, since the 1960’s open door policy, a “native” theoretical framework.


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