Valuable Knowledge: Students as Consumers of Critical Thinking in the Community College Classroom

jane mceldowney jensen holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and higher education from Indiana University, Bloomington, and conducts research on higher education in rural areas of North America and southern Europe. Jensen is the co-author of a text for first-year college students, Piecing It Together: A Guide to Student Academic Success, and an ethnographic study, Post-secondary Education on the Edge: Self-Improvement and Community Development in a Cape Breton Coal Town, published by Peter Lang.

benjamin worth is the assistant dean of distance learning and a professor of English at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, a comprehensive community college located in Lexington, Kentucky. He holds a Ph.D. in educational policy studies from the University of Kentucky. His teaching areas include first-year experience courses, college composition, and world literature.