October 30, 1998

Teaching History at Community Colleges: It's a Job for Historians

By MAUREEN MURPHY NUTTING

There's a new axiom emerging in community colleges: Anyone can teach history. Remember the high-school coach? When he wasn't on the football field or the basketball court, he was teaching a history class. It didn't matter if he knew much about the subject; it mattered that his teams won district, regional, and state tournaments. Well, that pattern has spread to the community college. Now, on some campuses, anyone

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