ABSTRACT
This chapter looks briefly at two of the most visible symptoms of such dissidence: the community college movement and the general education movement. It comments briefly on some other nodes of resistance to academic claims. A "community college" is not a "state college," and still less is it a "national university." The community college also serves a fourth group of marginal students; those who want less than four years of higher education. Theoretically, most community colleges provide terminal vocational programs for such students. A variety of other four-year colleges, such as Sarah Lawrence and Bennington, Bard and Goddard, New College and to some extent Antioch, have developed offbeat programs along related lines, though not all of them answer to the slogan of general education. The disciplines, like other forms of chauvinism, have proved more durable than many reformers anticipated. The withdrawal of the non-academic professions from undergraduate education is in one sense quite beneficial.
