Personal commitment to the comprehensive community college philosophy among Pennsylvania faculty of two-year institutions was found to be only modest. On the basis of a mail survey, faculty attitudes toward the goals of their institutions were best described as ambivalent. This was the major finding of a research effort conducted at the Pennsylvania State University's Center for the Study of Higher Education by Research Associates Larry L. Leslie and Angelo C. Gillie and by staff assistant, Karen L. Bloom.
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