In this article, the authors examine the potential in developing a model of curriculum design for Humanities/Liberal Arts courses in urban universities that focuses on cultural pluralism, community organizing, and collective inquiry as a means to foster university students' self-development and self-understanding as citizens, and active…

Surveyed 146 community college students who had entered Canada after their twelfth birthday. For over half, college was the point of entry into the Canadian educational system. Analyzed degrees and types of needs, as well as degrees and sources of support. The most striking finding was students' perception of a low degree of support from the…