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...Like patrons of regular supermarkets, community college students generally live in the neighborhood. Nearly 90% of Triton's students come from a 58-sq.-mi. section of Cook County near O'Hare International Airport. An area that includes light and heavy industry, tract homes and old mansions, the district has a population of 422,000, spread among such disparate communities as stately River Forest and working-class Melrose Park...
Local taxpayers provide a third of Triton's funding (with tuition and state and federal aid making up the balance). For their money, the citizens of district 504 get a college that is everything they never thought a college could be: cheap, accessible and extraordinarily responsive to their specific needs. One out of every ten district residents has taken courses inside Triton's modern brick-and-glass buildings, which are open from 6:30 in the morning until 10 at night...
...Triton's low tuition ($150 a semester for a full-time student) and closeness to home attract many students in the top ranks of their high school classes, as well as the less able who might find it tough going at other colleges. Triton also attracts adults who are trying to fill gaps in their education. More than half the students attend part time, and many combine their studies with full-time jobs...
There is a course or program to suit virtually every student need and ability. At each level the emphasis is on careers; in fact, Triton calls itself "the Career Center of the Midwest." Students can get associate degrees or one-year certificates in any of 104 career areas, from advertising art to police science to diesel or welding technology. Even for the 4,000 students in the university-transfer program, the focus is on the practical. An English course in children's literature, for example, is "recommended for elementary school and library science majors." Says Joseph Quagliano, a former...
Alert, enthusiastic students and a brisk, businesslike atmosphere are part of the appeal for Triton's hard-working faculty. There are no academic ranks, and all teachers are called "instructor." The emphasis is on teaching, not research, and only a few of the 834-member faculty boast doctorates; many are working mechanics, cooks or other tradesmen and technicians by day, earning a flat $12 an hour in the evening at Triton...