This article presents historical, political, and empirical perspectives on Confluent Education, a 25-year program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It interprets the program's essence and regards its demise as a result of a clash of academic and professional subcultures. Confluent Education, a humanistic orientation, is seen as a relatively high-context learning community but one surrounded by a hostile and/or indifferent low-context larger academic and community environment.
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