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- W207667808 abstract "Although more young people in the United States attend college than in any other nation in the world, it is a little-known fact that close to half of these students attend community colleges. For most Americans, there is a community college just a short distance from home. Several foreign countries are working to graft the American model of the community college onto their own educational systems. Community colleges offer degrees of associate to students who have completed courses of study that correspond to the freshman and sophomore years of college. Credits earned from community colleges transfer to four-year schools, so that a student may transfer as a junior. Community colleges also offer vocational degrees and certificates for students who desire local employment. They offer, for personal interest, non-credit courses that do not transfer. The community college has evolved from the junior college, a creation usually credited to President William Rainey Harper of the University of Chicago. In 1900, Harper envisaged the junior college as preparation for the last two years of university study. Harper's idea was to expand the public high schools to include the numerous poor and faltering independent, small, liberal arts and denominational colleges in the Midwest. Harper admired the high schools of his day for their success in training students to take their place in an increasingly mechanized industrial work force and technologized agrarian society. He recommended that the high schools operate for six years, bringing a student up to his junior year in college. Harper thought the teachers" @default.
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- W207667808 title "EDUCATION: How Good Are Community Colleges?" @default.
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