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Article: Honors Programs in Community Colleges: A Review of Recent Issues and Literature.
- Article from:
- Community College Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
- Author:
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This review of honors programs and their curricula in comprehensive community colleges is based upon an examination of prescriptive literature outlining such programs and on reports about a number of them, either by researchers or participants. In all, information related to 38 colleges and districts in 19 states was reviewed (see the Appendix to this article for a list). Four major questions framed this study: Why did those colleges that have honors programs choose to do so? What are the stated goals of honors programs? How are honors curricula structured? Do the programs succeed?
Although some of the reports include at least implicit responses to all of these ...