ABSTRACT
From the late 1910s to the 1930s, as junior colleges expanded and flourished, university presidents, university professors, and newly certified junior college administrators began to identify themselves as part of a national junior college movement. By the second decade of the junior college movement, the self-proclaimed leaders of the junior college began to go through an intense identity crisis revolving around the purpose of junior colleges and the central placement of this institution between secondary and postsecondary education systems. In 1936 Byron Holinshead discussed the notion of a community college because he believed that junior colleges should be separate and distinct postsecondary institutions that primarily served the local needs of the community. A lack of information on junior colleges may have also been in part because of the nonaccredited status of most Negro institutions of higher education until the late 1920s and 1930s.
