A TWO-YEAR COLLEGE TYPOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: UPDATING AND UTILIZING THE KATSINAS-LACEY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM David Earl Hardy, B.F.A., M.S. Dissertation Prepared for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS May 2005 APPROVED BY: Stephen G. Katsinas, Major Professor V. Barbara Bush, Committee Member Brent Cejda, Committee Member Frankie Santos Laanan, Committee Member Ron Newsom, Higher Education Doctoral Program Coordinator Michael Altekruse, Chair of the Department of Counseling, Development & Higher Education M. Jean Keller, Dean of the College of Education Sandra L. Terrell, Dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies