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Direct linkLum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
This article describes how people with bachelor's and even advanced degrees are using two-year colleges as a form of graduate school. It defies the stereotype of community college as a place of last resort, and counters the norm of the first-time college students earning an associate degree and then transferring to a four-year institution. For the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduates, Associate Degrees, Academic Aspiration
