Pedagogy Jan 2021

“Democracy’s Unfinished Business”

Patrick Sullivan

Abstract

The Truman Commission created the modern community college in 1947 to democratize our system of higher education in America. Before this moment, higher education was thoroughly segregated by race, class, and gender. The modern open-admissions two-year college cannot, therefore, be understood simply as a convenient, low-cost alternative to four-year colleges. It is—by mission and mandate—a social justice institution.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2021-01-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-8692632
Open Access
Closed
Topics
two-year college multimodality race and writing

Citation Context

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