October 26, 2007

The Double Consciousness of Community Colleges

By M. GARRETT BAUMAN

Community colleges were invisible to me in the late 1960s and early 1970s when I attended college and graduate school. Although their number doubled from 400 to 1,000 by the mid-70s, they scarcely registered until I found myself searching for a teaching position. It was a shock. I interviewed at a community college housed in a defunct shoe factory, another in scattered trailers that would "someday" be replaced by a real campus, and a third that rented only an office in a strip mall even

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