While over a third of American college students are enrolled in community colleges, there is surprisingly little research on these institutions to inform our views of the role they play—or can play—in the world of higher education. Turning our attention to these long-ignored but widely attended institutions may mean challenging some common assumptions about what students can and should get out of postsecondary education.
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