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Community college enrollment plunges nearly 40 percent in a decade
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<blockquote data-quote="jacks" data-source="post: 77192394" data-attributes="member: 264888"><p>Colleges as a whole are seeing <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/05/26/new-report-the-college-enrollment-decline-has-worsened-this-spring/?sh=6ee40a9024e0" target="_blank">declining enrollments</a>, though CC colleges are taking the greatest hit. There may be many reasons for this, but colleges not being sure of their roles in todays world, could be one of them. First if you just want to learn something (a large portion of the CC students) you can do so free on-line. Why pay any tuition at all for an on-line class at any college, if you can get the same information for free? My niece for example just got a 4 year degree in Urban Development from a state college and never had to attend class even once. So if the only advantage the college is offering is a degree or certificate saying you completed something, they could very well just turn into testing centers. That is, "We don't care how you learned it, just take this test and prove it. We will then grant you a degree." This of course would put many people who work for the college, out of work and politically education is a very powerful sacred cow. Finally people are beginning to wonder about the worth of the degree in any case. My nephew had a masters in Journalism and worked as a waiter. Colleges like any business need to take a hard look at their marketing models. They are no longer the only game in town.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jacks, post: 77192394, member: 264888"] Colleges as a whole are seeing [URL='https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/05/26/new-report-the-college-enrollment-decline-has-worsened-this-spring/?sh=6ee40a9024e0']declining enrollments[/URL], though CC colleges are taking the greatest hit. There may be many reasons for this, but colleges not being sure of their roles in todays world, could be one of them. First if you just want to learn something (a large portion of the CC students) you can do so free on-line. Why pay any tuition at all for an on-line class at any college, if you can get the same information for free? My niece for example just got a 4 year degree in Urban Development from a state college and never had to attend class even once. So if the only advantage the college is offering is a degree or certificate saying you completed something, they could very well just turn into testing centers. That is, "We don't care how you learned it, just take this test and prove it. We will then grant you a degree." This of course would put many people who work for the college, out of work and politically education is a very powerful sacred cow. Finally people are beginning to wonder about the worth of the degree in any case. My nephew had a masters in Journalism and worked as a waiter. Colleges like any business need to take a hard look at their marketing models. They are no longer the only game in town. [/QUOTE]
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