The Academic Crisis of the Community College

By Dennis McGrath and Martin B. Spear

Book Overview

Dennis McGrath is Professor of Sociology, and Martin B. Spear is Professor of Philosophy, at the Community College of Philadelphia. Each has received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 079140563X
• ISBN13: 9780791405635
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

good book, but needs more historical context.

Mcgrath and Spear do a decent job of summarizing what they feel are the problems of the community college. Although they argue their point in a concise manner and do an excellent jo at it, they sometimes seem to expect you to take them at their word. The problems they cite are very real. People who study community colleges will have little trouble seeing their points, it would still be refreshing to place the problems in community colleges in some sort of historical context. I would advise, however, that anyone who studies community colleges or works in one have this volume in their personal library.