US equivalent of "kolledzh" (educ.term., cont.)

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear colleagues:

Sounds as if the experts are telling us that the new post-Soviet term 
"kolledzh" may be an approximate equivalent of the U.S. "community 
college" (in some places still called "junior college").   I.e.,  a school 
which can be  entered after secondary school, and which offers only 
the first 2 years of higher education   ("freshman" & "sophomore" 
years only).    The completion of those two years   of instruction is 
certified   by an "associate's degree."
  
In US "community colleges," some students study "hands-on" type 
technical subjects, and some go on to technical jobs after the two 
years of study.  In the sports-obsessed USA, "community colleges" 
are frequently the first stop in higher education   for those star 
athletes who in secondary school received poor grades, insufficient 
to earn admission to major,  full-fledged  "4-year"  universities.  
Using their 2 years in a less-demanding community college to 
redeem their previous poor grades, the sports stars are then 
eligible to transfer to a major, full-fledged university, where 
they hope to excell on the football field or basketball court 
during their last two ("junior & senior")   years of higher 
education... 

Best wishes to all,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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Date: Tue 15 May 00:39:29 CDT 2007
From:  <LISTSERV at BAMA.UA.EDU> 
Subject: Re: GETPOST SEELANGS 
To: "Steven P. Hill" <s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU> 

Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 08:25:26 -0500
From: Alina Makin <resco at UMICH.EDU> 
Subject: Re: Educational terminology 

Kolledzh is a vocational school or a two-year college that 
grants associate degrees.
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Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:28:25 +0400
From: Pavel Lyssakov <Lyssakov at EU.SPB.RU> 
Subject: Re: Educational terminology 

Well, two year vocational school is more like the former PTU
(professional'no tekhnicheskoe uchilishche)

College is a post-Soviet official term for what used to be called
"tekhnikum"
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