It is generally agreed that the concept of the Community I College originated in the United States. This type of educational institution has even been acclaimed as a U.S. invention (Diener 1986). In the post-World War II expansion of higher education in the USA, this post-secondary educational innovation experienced parallel growth with the junior college, and for some time the terms community college and junior college tended to be used synonymously. But over the last decade the name community college has steadily gained currency. Much credit is given to President Harry Truman's 1947 Commission on Higher Education for the impetus given to the development of these institutions and in particular their community orientation (United States 1948).
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