Two-Year College English fills a void in the scholarly work on community college teaching, curricula, faculty, programs, and history. Each of the 19 essays explores a significant aspect of the two-year college and argues for recognition of the critical roles that such colleges now play and will continue to play well into the twenty-first century. Among the crucial topics considered are meeting the needs of diverse student populations; the demands of preparing students for access to four-year institutions; the innovative measures required to bring ethnic/cultural awareness to the classroom; the challenges presented by "older, nontraditional students;" the status of part-time instructors in a system still too often modeled on full-time professorial faculty; and many others.
241 pp. 1994. College. ISBN 0-8141-5541-3.
No. 55413