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Peer reviewedWattenbarger, James L.; Witt, Allen A. – Community College Review, 1995
Describes the debate over how and when the community college movement spread from the Midwest to California. Presents evidence that the University of Chicago's William Rainey Harper was working in 1900 to convince three California colleges to drop their upper division and become junior colleges. Considers the role of David Starr Jordan in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational History, Educational Innovation, Educational Theories
