1st Edition

Two-Year Colleges for Women and Minorities Enabling Access to the Baccalaureate

Edited By Barbara K. Townsend Copyright 1999

    Two-year colleges are often the most financially, geographically, and academically accessible means of higher education for ethnic minorities and women. This book examines five types of two-year special focus schools.

    1. Collective and Distinctive Patterns of Two-Year Special Focus Colleges, Barbara K. Townsend
    2. Two-Year Women's Colleges: Silenced, Fading, and Almost Forgotten, Lisa Wolf-Wendel and Sheila Pedrigo
    3. Two-Year Historically Black Colleges, Janet A. Guyden
    4. Tribal Colleges, D. Michael Pavel, Ella Inglebret, and Mark van Den Hende
    5. Two-Year Hispanic-Serving Colleges, berta Vigil Laden
    6. The Two-Year Church-Affiliated College and Issues of Access, Philo A. Hutcheson and Ray Christie
    7. Beyond a Distinctive Student Body: Possibilities for Practice, Barbara K. Townsend, janet A. Guyden, Philo A. Hutcheson, Berta Vigil Laden, D. Michael Pavel, and Lisa Wolf-Wendel

    Biography

    Barbara K. Townsend

    "The anthology is a substantial work, contributing to the history of higher education in many ways, reshaping our conceptions and approaches to the study of 2-year colleges, and raising questions about our explicit categorizations of institutions and our implicit hierarchies of their importance." -- Journal of Education for students placed at risk