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Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, and the American Community College

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Authors:
  1. Patrick Sullivan

    1. Manchester Community College, Manchester, USA

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  • Includes perspectives from students in open-admissions community colleges
  • Provides a counter-narrative to the deficit models of community colleges currently in legislature
  • Aims to help those interested in the community college make more research-based, theoretically grounded arguments to state legislatures for support of community colleges and community college students

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Patrick Sullivan
    Pages 1-13

  3. Journeys

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-18
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    2. No Regrets

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 19-23

    3. My Journey

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 25-29

    4. A New Beginning

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 31-33

    5. Everything in Life Has a Cost

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 35-38

    6. Survival and Resilience

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 39-58

    7. The Accident of My Career and Academic Life

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 59-66

    8. The Path I Didn’t Choose

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 67-70

    9. Head Start

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 71-73

    10. Sabina’s Story

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 75-88

    11. No Longer Trapped

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 89-91

    12. Coming in from the Cold

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 93-96

    13. Slim Chances

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 97-99

    14. Recovery

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 101-109

    15. Writing My Way to College

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 111-122

    16. Journey

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 123-129

    17. What Do These Student Success Stories Tell Us?

      • Patrick Sullivan
      Pages 131-142

  4. Democracy’s Unfinished Business

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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About this book

This book aims to deepen public understanding of the community college and to challenge our longstanding reliance on a deficit model for defining this important, powerful, and transformative institution. Featuring a unique combination of data and research, Sullivan seeks to help redefine, update, and reshape public perception about community colleges. This book gives serious attention to student voices, and includes narratives written by community college students about their experiences attending college at an open admissions institution. Sullivan examines the history of the modern community college and the economic model that is driving much of the current discussion in higher education today. Sullivan argues that the community college has done much to promote social justice and economic equality in America since the founding of the modern community college in 1947 by the Truman Commission.

Reviews

“Sullivan’s volume is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on economics, sociology, writing studies, higher education … providing a comprehensive and accessible understanding of what he sees as the role and the challenges of the community college. … this volume is the one I would choose for my administration to read as it provides a comprehensive and deeply informed perspective. The book provides the reader with one of the most complete pictures of the 2-year college and the material and ideological debates surrounding it.” (Darin L. Jensen, Community College Review, Vol. 46 (4), 2018)

“Sullivan (English, Manchester Community College, Conn.) provides an impressive counter-narrative to the notion that community colleges are failures. … Sullivan’s book is an excellent starting point for students and others interested in the community who wish to accept that challenge. Summing Up: Highlyrecommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals.” (M. Oromaner, Choice, Vol. 55 (10), June, 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Manchester Community College, Manchester, USA

    Patrick Sullivan

About the author

Patrick Sullivan is Professor of English at Manchester Community College, Connecticut, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, and the American Community College

  • Authors: Patrick Sullivan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44284-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83029-2Published: 24 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44284-6Published: 11 May 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 432

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership

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