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Community College Mission Revisited: Three Recent Approaches
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 12, Number 2, Winter 1989
- pp. 177-183
- 10.1353/rhe.1989.0029
- Review
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Three recent publications provide fresh perspectives on the community college as a unique institutional type in American higher education. The works focus on the mission and identity of the community college and address questions of scope, delivery, and quality. This essay review highlights current approaches to these questions and poses some concerns that deserve critical attention.