Product Description
by Patrick Sullivan (Author)
Chapter 1 Scott Kiley
Chapter 2 Julie Larkin
Chapter 3 Eddie Rivera
Chapter 4 Sarah Brihan
Chapter 5 Ashley Partyka
Chapter 6 Chhan D. Touch
Chapter 7 Bethany Silver
Chapter 8 Tim Taylor
Chapter 9 Sabina Mamedova
Chapter 10 Matt Dicks
Chapter 11 Democracy's Unfinished Business
Chapter 12 "Socialism Means Slavery" Economic Theory, Neoliberalism, and Higher Education
Chapter 13 The Imaginary Universe of Perfect Competition
Chapter 14 Different Psychological Worlds
Chapter 15 Connecticut's PA 12-40 and "Undeserving" Students
Chapter 16 Freedom, Unfreedom, and the "Common Good"
Chapter 17 A Stealth Revolution
Chapter 18 Measuring "Success" at Open Admissions Institutions
Chapter 19 Diverted Dreams, Cruel Hoaxes, and Institutional Ineffectiveness: The Community College "Failure" Narrative
Chapter 20 The Consequences of a Deified Market Model
Chapter 21 Literacy in American Lives
Chapter 22 Conclusion
Back Jacket
This book aims to deepen public understanding of the community college and to challenge our longstanding reliance on a deficit model for defining this important, powerful, and transformative institution. Featuring a unique combination of data and research, Sullivan seeks to help redefine, update, and reshape public perception about community colleges. This book gives serious attention to student voices, and includes narratives written by community college students about their experiences attending college at an open admissions institution. Sullivan examines the history of the modern community college and the economic model that is driving much of the current discussion in higher education today. Sullivan argues that the community college has done much to promote social justice and economic equality in America since the founding of the modern community college in 1947 by the Truman Commission.
Author Biography
Patrick Sullivan is Professor of English at Manchester Community College, Connecticut, USA.
