Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53801#.VNMmXizQrzE Author(s) Mary Ann Tétreault Affiliation(s) Department of Political Science, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA . ABSTRACT College in much of the West is the formal site of higher education but what is expected from college is education more broadly conceived. The university is a place where students come to learn but it also is a collection of spaces where informal learning builds their capacities to create and perform on a larger stage than family and neighborhood. The public sphere constituted by the university is sheltered, but students are still exposed to individuals from different backgrounds and encouraged to expand their horizons to embrace concerns that lie outside the interests and competence of their families and neighborhoods. The adults and peers who surround them make demands that each student must either ...
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