Junior-College Supervision and Control

Abstract

IN THE PAST TWO DECADES, the necessity for reorganization of the educational structure to meet the needs of youth and society has brought about the development of new units in the educational ladder. In many areas of the United States, one of the new and fast-growing units has been the public junior college. Because the educational philosophies underlying the establishment of public junior colleges differ and because the attendance area or the junior-college district or both often must necessarily include two or more counties, highschool districts, or portions thereof, serious problems of control, government, and supervision have been precipitated. As part of a more inclusive, nationwide investigation, the writer analyzed general legislation pertaining to the public junior college contained in the statutes of each of the twenty-six states with public junior colleges that are operating without legal provisions or under provisions other than special legislative acts. The purpose was to discover the legal enactments relating to the supervision, government, and control of public junior colleges. Each item of legislation was subsequently submitted to all public junior-college administrators in the United States and to a selected group of educational experts in the juniorcollege field. The respondents indicated their opinion of the desirability of the individual items for inclusion in