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Cognitive effects of community colleges and four-year colleges: Further evidence from the National Study of Student Learning.
Community College Journal (1995)
  • Ernest Pascarella, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Marcia Edison, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Amaury Nora, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Linda S. Hagedorn, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Patrick Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University
Abstract

The two-year community college has become one of the major institutional configurations in the American postsecondary system. It has undoubtedly increased both the access to higher education and the social mobility of numerous individuals whose education world otherwise have ended with high school (Cohen & Brawer, 1989; Nunley & Breneman, 1988). However, critiques of the community college posit that, although it may largely guarantee equality of opportunity for access to higher education, it has not, in relationship to four-year colleges and universities, provided equal opportunity in terms of the outcomes or benefits of higher education (Brint & Karabel, 1989; Grubb, 1984; Karabel, 1986).

Publication Date
December, 1995
Citation Information
Ernest Pascarella, Marcia Edison, Amaury Nora, Linda S. Hagedorn, et al.. "Cognitive effects of community colleges and four-year colleges: Further evidence from the National Study of Student Learning." Community College Journal (1995)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/linda_hagedorn/32/