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The growth of honors programs in small and community colleges
Author(s) -
Jackson Jocelyn Whitehead
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.37219862508
Subject(s) - community college , mathematics education , higher education , pedagogy , sociology , psychology , medical education , political science , medicine , law
The steady emergence of small‐college honorsprograms in the early 1970s and the subsequent,rapid growth of community college honors programsafter 1978 reveal the many successful attempts inthese colleges to capitalize on their existing strengthswhile avoiding the problems faced by the larger,university programs.