The Four-Year Junior College
1 NH E Stephens College experiment with the four-year junior A.. college is based upon the following assumptions. The first is that the essential elements of the work now done in the junior high school, the senior high school, and the junior college should be completed by the end of the twelfth grade. Should a longer period for general education be required, the remaining two years should cover upper-division courses of the liberal-arts college and should lead definitely to the baccalaureate degree. The second assumption is that the junior college, however defined, is an integral part of the secondary-school system. Third, the work of the junior college should be organized upon the collegiate as distinguished from the high-school level, just as the work now attempted in the junior high school should be organized upon a secondary as distinguished from an elementary-school level. These changes may be brought about by increased teaching efficiency, by the elimination of duplicate courses in college and secondary curriculums, by a thorough reorganization of curricular content making it more definitely functional. These reforms may result in saving two years of time for the student and two years of expense for the community, but this may be done without serious loss. The specific nature of the experiment authorized by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools is shown by Figure i.