Abstract
Comprehensive community colleges do enroll academically gifted students. These students have special educational needs and wants . While they generally are pleased with the quality of education they receive attending community colleges without special programs, gifted students desire the educational experiences typically associated with honors programs. These findings resulted from a study of 295 academically gifted students enrolled in four community colleges located in a midwestern state. A questionnaire adapted from a previous study of students enrolled in community college honors programs was used to collect data. There were some similarities and many notable differences between student demographic characteristics, high school backgrounds and present educational states of students in honors programs and those attending community colleges without honors programs. Since there is a core of academically gifted students who attend community colleges, special educational experiences offered within the frame...
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