Title The Diverted Dream : Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985

Published Oxford University Press, USA 1991

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Description 1 online resource Contents Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1: Community Colleges and the American Social Order -- Community Colleges and Democratic Ideology -- Curricular Change in the Community College -- PART I: Community Colleges in the United States: From Liberal Arts to Vocational Training -- 2: Organizing a National Education Movement: 1900-1945 -- University Sponsorship and the Rise of the Junior College -- The Founding of a National Association: The American Association of Junior Colleges -- The California Example -- The Depression Boom -- The Terminal Education Project Toward Vocationalization: Sponsorship and Opposition -- 3: The Takeoff Period: 1946-1970 -- The Truman Commission Report and the Junior College -- The Political and Economic Context of Expansion -- Meritocracy, the Cold War, and the Junior College -- The Great Enrollment Surge -- The California Master Plan -- External Support and the New Push for Vocationalization -- The Junior College Movement Looks to the 1970s -- 4: The Great Transformation: 1970-1985 -- External Support for Vocationalization -- Market Forces in Context: Perception and Reality -- The Surge in Vocational Enrollments Vocational Programs and the Labor Market -- The AAJC and the Growth of Marketing -- Institutional Climates, Transfer Patterns, and Students' Life Chances -- Ties to Business -- The Long Road from Joliet -- PART II: Community College Transformation at the State and Local Level: The Case of Massachusetts -- 5: Designs for Comprehensive Community Colleges: 1958-1970 -- The Origins of Community Colleges in Massachusetts -- The Dwyer Administration and the Rise of Vocational Education -- 6: The Process of Vocationalization: Mechanisms and Structures -- The Dynamics of Vocationalization The Exception That Proves the Rule: The Case of Roxbury -- Patterns of Faculty and Student Response to Vocationalization -- 7: The Final Transformation in Massachusetts: Market Pressures, Fiscal Crises, and Business Influences, 1971-1985 -- State Policy and the Growth of Vocationalism, 1971-1978 -- The Era of Business Dominance, 1979-1984 -- Organizational Tensions and Market Competition -- The Vocationalization of Community Colleges in Massachusetts -- CONCLUSION -- 8: The Community College and the Politics of Inequality -- From Liberal Arts to Vocational Training The Institutional Model and the Problem of Change -- American Education, Meritocratic Ideology, and The Legitimation of Inequality -- The Community College and Democratic Ideals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Interviews -- Index Summary In the twentieth century, Americans have increasingly looked to the schools--and, in particular, to the nation's colleges and universities--as guardians of the cherished national ideal of equality of opportunity. With the best jobs increasingly monopolized by those with higher education, theopportunity to attend college has become an integral part of the American dream of upward mobility. The two-year college--which now enrolls more than four million students in over 900 institutions--is a central expression of this dream, and its invention at the turn of the century constituted oneof the gre Subject Education, Higher -- United States -- History -- 20th century Community colleges -- United States -- History -- 20th century Education, Humanistic -- United States -- History -- 20th century Vocational education -- United States -- History -- 20th century Community colleges Education, Higher Education, Humanistic Vocational education United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Jerome Karabel. ISBN 1280439874 9781280439872

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