Protecting and strengthening the dream: California junior colleges during the great depression.

From: Michigan Academician | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Gallagher, Edward A. | Copyright information

By 1930, California had established an educational network providing a variety of opportunities for youths and adults. The most distinguishing feature of this network consisted of forty-six junior colleges, thirty-three of them public. The Great Depression caused educators to broaden their thinking about the purposes and functions of junior colleges, emphasizing "community needs." Adult education was discussed increasingly by junior college educators when "youthful idlers," unable ...

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