Much educational research categorizes community college students as underprepared and in terms of retention and completion. This study uses narrative inquiry to offer a critical alternative to "human capital" analyses of community college students. Within a context of economic struggle and globalization, students cross borders of many kinds, and there are pressures for the US to become the "first in the world" to produce the most college graduates. However, subjectification can be included as a function of education (Biesta, 2010). The humanities play a critical role. Stories serve to humanize the lives of ten persons in community college classrooms. The dissertation concludes with the researcher becoming the learner through storytelling and teaching through stories.
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