About 40% of college students are enrolled in community colleges.
A disproportionate amount of these students are low-income, older, black, Hispanic or North American Indian students.
These students receive about one-third of all Pell Grant funds and less than 10% of the funds from other federal loan and campus-based loan programs.
About one-third of jr. college students borrow to pay for their education - 71% borrow less than $10K. 16% borrow btw $10-20K. 12% borrow more than $20K.
In the end, 23% of students who went to jr. college with the intention of going on o a four year college completed a bachelor's degree in less than six years.
Jr. Colleges/Community colleges play an integral in our society - for adult students, low-income students, first-generatioon students.
They are also a tough crowd. I have been teaching them for several years now.
Still...everyone who wants a shot should get a shot at doing the post-secondary school thing.
What do you think?
All of my engineering education has been through distance learning. One thing I have found is that it is in someways more difficult to learn online in that you are by yourself, and easier in that you don't have the on campus distractions, and lastly more cost effective since you don't have to take a lot of unnecessary courses and listen to a lot of off the wall professors. By the way, online courses particularly in engineering also offer lab work too.
Posted by: Bennie Walton | January 2, 2007 3:14 PM | Permalink to Comment