This monograph reviews recent literature pertaining to two-year college humanities students. It notes the current drift of community college students away from the humanities and other transfer curricula and toward vocational and occupational training. Overall enrollment trends are noted, as are the characteristics of particular kinds of students…

The phenomenal growth in enrollments in occupational courses since the early Sixties signals a new direction for the community college movement. From a predominantly baccalaureate-oriented institution the community college has become an occupational-oriented institution. The statistics on the college, state, and national level attest to this…