October 28, 2005

A Design of Their Own

By GAIL O. MELLOW

Across the United States, too many community colleges look like high schools or strip malls, conveying intentional and unintentional messages about their worth. Their physical appearance does not reflect their distinctive mission, students, pedagogy, and community relationships. And at best, community colleges are designed simply as lesser versions of four-year colleges.

We need a new kind of built environment for community colleges. Their architecture and design should make a

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