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343). Eells posited that the junior colleges allowed students who were not capable of taking the higher work to stop “naturally and honorably at the end of the sophomore year” (1931, p. 91). “As a matter of record, the end of the second year of college marks the completion of formal education for the majority of students who continue post–high school studies” (p. 84). They would be better off remaining in their home communities until greater maturity enabled a few of them to go to the university in a distant region; the pretense of higher learning for all could be set aside.
They all faced the same phenomena of rising populations, changing technologies, different expectations for child rearing, and a shifting pattern of preparation Background for the workforce. However, they built adult education centers and vocational schools separate from each other and rarely founded institutions that would enable people to transfer credit to baccalaureate programs. Were their school superintendents less eager to become college presidents? Were their high school populations more docile in accepting the decision that they would never have a chance for a baccalaureate?
5); by 2003, this proportion had risen to more than 90 percent. Figures reported in this book generally refer to institutions in the public two-year college sector. However, some information related to independent and proprietary institutions is included in areas where data are available. Development of Community Colleges The development of community colleges should be placed in the context of the growth of all higher education in the twentieth century. As secondary school enrollments expanded rapidly in the early 1900s, the demand for access to college grew apace.