Community College Access, Mission, and Outcomes: Considering Intriguing Intersections and Challenges

摘要: Since their inception, community colleges have carried out a number of complex and often competing programs or foci. The transfer, vocational, developmental, continuing service foci become increasingly important as the mission has evolved. During early history, operating primarily transfer institutions, student population junior was not especially diverse-traditional age, male, White, college-bound students filled most classrooms. As times passed enrollments grew, became diverse in they serve purposes for being. Today, fulfill multiplicity roles within communities, offering myriad educational services with broad sometimes contradictory set intended outcomes. This article summarizes pertinent literature related to college access, mission, outcomes, exploring intersections between these import...