Author:
Sullivan, Patrick, 1956- author.
ImprintCham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Imprint2017.
Descriptionxxiv, 432 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note:Introduction -- No regrets / Scott Kiley -- My journey / Julie A. Larkin -- A new beginning / Eddie Rivera -- Everything in life has a cost / Sarah Brihan -- Survival and resilience / Chhan D. Touch -- The accident of my career and academic life / Bethany Silver -- The path I didn't choose / Michelle Nickerson -- Head start / Mikey Palacios-Baughman -- Sabina's story / Sabina Mamedova -- No longer trapped / Jenn Nguyen -- Coming in from the cold / Tanya Knight -- Slim chances / Anton Pettiford -- Recovery / Abigail Welles -- Writing my way to college / Ashley Riddlesworth -- Journey / Yanira Hernandez -- What do these student success stories tell us? -- The Truman commission report -- Economic inequality and higher education -- "Socialism means slavery" -- Unfreedom -- Opportunity differentials -- Different psychological worlds, part 1 -- Different psychological worlds, part 2 -- "Ideas about human possibilities": Connecticut's PA 12-40 and developmental education in the era of neoliberalism -- A brief history of the public good -- The consequences of a deified market model -- Development as freedom -- Measuring "success" at open admissions institutions -- Diverted dreams, cruel hoaxes, and institutional ineffectiveness: the community college "failure" narrative -- The developmental education crisis -- Conclusion: "to do list"
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-426) and index.
Note: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.
