Florence B. Brawer

The Community College as College: Should the Liberal Arts Survive in Community Colleges?

to their program? T -M-he -he community colleges contribution to American higher education can be summarized in one word: access. By maintaining open admissions, designing programs for all types of students, and making it easy for anyone to attend, the community colleges have attracted a cohort of people who might not otherwise have participated in education beyond high school. They enroll one-third of all students in higher education, more than 40 percent of the entering fulltime freshmen. For years their enrollments have increased at a rate

Adaptive Potential and First Year Teaching Success

tion, the first-time teacher must make intense personal adjustments to the demands of the new situation, where he finds a different status, a different role, and completely different patterns of reward and reinforcement. Indeed, a fundamental rationale in teacher preparation programs is the idea that &dquo;the growing of a young person from college student into professional teacher ... is a deeply personal becoming. It cannot be thought of or accomplished en masse&dquo; (i5). In practice, success in making this transition is usually assessed globally. Although many attempts have been made