April 7, 2009

2-Year Colleges Worry That Job Training May Displace the Humanities

By Jeffrey J. Selingo

Phoenix

Passage of the vast economic-stimulus bill was a big win for community colleges, but its focus on job training has some two-year-college officials worried that the humanities could get shoved aside as laid-off workers are rushed through programs of work-force development.

That concern, expressed during a panel discussion here at the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges, comes at a time when

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