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New boom for community colleges?
- Retric 17y agoI don't see why community colleges can't become cheep colleges. The only problem is when people forget it is fine for a college to focus on something other than becoming "highly selective." A network of collages that let people take night classes for 10 years to get a degree could be useful for many people. PS: Counting the six-year graduation rate is a broken metric for such institutions.
- JCThoughtscream 17y agoI almost suspect that my school district's former chancellor had her hand in this. It seems very much something that Martha Kanter would propose - and rightfully so, as California's community colleges are especially feeling the budget crunches. What's worse is the whole timing of the thing. The trend is generally that the less money there is available to the school district, the more students state-funded community colleges get, which in turn hikes up their operational costs. It's hard to get a more vicious cycle than that.
- dugmartin 17y agoBig state research institutions are dead - they are just way too expensive to run. Four year community colleges with faculty that teach full time are going to become the norm.
- callmeed 17y agoI did 2 years of general ed and CS courses a community college before transferring back to a 4-year state university. Our CS courses were at night, taught by a professor who worked full-time as a software engineer. I'm not knocking PhDs who go directly from student->professor (I had some great professors after transferring), but there's something to be said for learning from someone who has real-world experience.