History of Community Colleges
2002; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-1-4615-0885-4_13
ISSN1566-7081
Autores Tópico(s)Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
ResumoThe idea of placing the lower division general education study in a “junior college” is credited to Henry Tappan, president of the University of Michigan in 1851. Numerous other educators including William Rainey Harper of the University of Chicago and David Starr Jordan of Stanford suggested following a modified European model wherein the universities would offer the higher-order scholarship and “junior college” would offer lower level academic and vocational education. Harper was involved in the formulation of the first public two year college which was opened in 1901 in Joliet, Illinois.1
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