US community colleges play various roles in American higher education. Because of their wide-ranging diversity and open enrollment policies, they are frequently referred to as "democracy's colleges". They are vital today in assisting Americans in better understanding the global realities of a post-September 11 world. Programmatic…

The question "should everybody be able to go to college," is one of the most important and explosive questions before higher education. This paper: (1) sketches several approaches to admittance - including the guild approach of Oxford and Cambridge, admittance based on manpower requirements - as in the U.S.S.R., the selective access approach,…

Since 1994, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) has provided funding to new charter schools through Charter School Program (CSP) grants designed to provide support for the planning and implementation of effective new charter programs. Grants are awarded to state education agencies, which then provide funding to approved charter schools through…

The array of admissions models and the underlying, and sometimes conflicting goals people have for college admissions, create the dynamics and the tensions that define the contemporary context for enrollment management. The senior enrollment officer must ask, for example, how does an institution try to assure transparency, equality of access,…

Since 1994, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) has provided funding to new charter schools through Charter School Program (CSP) grants designed to provide support for the planning and implementation of effective new charter programs. Grants are awarded to state education agencies, which then provide funding to approved charter schools through…

Discusses the promise and limitations of voucher concept use in public schools. (JF)

A special program to further the education of dock workers is discussed. (CK)

Through the voices of scholars and metalogues, this paper merges the experiences of five professors of education who disrupt the "status quo" with Foucault's scholarship on "practices of the self" and "parrhesia" (the speaking of dangerous truths). The scholars challenge hegemony in education and its effects on…

Open enrollment charter schools are monitored and accredited under the statewide testing and accountability system, just like traditional public schools. Accountability is critical for charter schools because if these schools do not improve student achievement they are at risk of having their charter terminated. As of the most recent publication…

This study examined the effects of two types of course delivery systems (learning community classroom environments versus stand-alone classroom environments) on the achievement of students who were simultaneously enrolled in remedial and college-level social science courses at an inner city open-enrollment public community college. This study was…

After a brief overview of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their historical development, the authors discuss how these colleges and universities were at the vanguard in terms of both access to higher education and diversity, long before these ideas were embraced by the academic mainstream. Despite a long history of…

The expectation of a college education for all has not been fulfilled, basically not because of a crunch on financial resources but because the taste for higher education, it appears, is not universal. This may be an encouraging development in reducing the requirement of the college degree as a factor in producing inequality and allowing higher…

Contends that the City University of New York, during its open admissions period (1969-1976), employed a hidden tracking system to make proletarian students conform to the capitalist system. (DD)