Question for Eric?

[hoosier]

Somebody posted this"

"Some younger readers don't know about the horrible "junior college experiment" in the 1970s were legitimate national fraternities intalled chapters at junior colleges because they thought that was the wave of the future. It wasn't - and there was a lot of controversey over it at the time - and now there are junior colleges all over the place littered with dead systems of legitimate nationals."

Do you have any memories of this? I think only a few natls. were interested in JCs, and I don't think many JC chapters were ever chartered?

I was talked with the head Chi Phi in the office here, and he said "Chi Phi won't have any chapters where you can major in welding!"

There was a lot of thought at that time that the future was almost everyone went to JC for two years, and then transferred to a real college. Illinois actually created a two-year school, with only jrs. and srs., in Springfield called Sangamon or Sagamore, I think, to pursue this thinking. IL was building junior colleges in about every county, including a brand new one on a hill not five miles from U IL Champaign. My college directory doesn't list a Sagamon/more, so I guess it has become the UI-Springfield.

Many also thought back then that college enrollment would be declining after the baby boomers and their kids were gone, but that was wrong too.

Let us know what you know, O Sage of the Rockies.