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Educate the President

In case you missed it, our dear president was quoted the other day as saying “I don’t know what that means, a community college.” It’s too bad the president doesn’t know more about the dedicated folks at community colleges who have provided excellent educational opportunities to many millions of Americans over the years. Indeed, a […]

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Schooling Trump

Recently, speaking in Richfield, Ohio, President Trump said years ago, vocational schools “were not called community colleges, because I don’t know what that means.” He is correct. In order to understand the value of community college, you have to familiarize yourself with those who sit in the classroom. The National Center for Education Statistics reported […]

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Why So Clueless?

When I started college at 19, I was timid and unsure of the big world ahead of me. Fast-forward two years later and I felt like a different person: More confident, more self-assured and more determined than ever to pursue a degree in journalism after a high school hobby grew into a full-fledged passion. The […]

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Trump’s Wrong

“I don’t know what that means, a community college,” President Trump said last week during a speech in northeastern Ohio. “Call it vocational and technical. People know what that means.” The president made similar remarks in West Virginia two months ago, and then again in March at a White House forum on education. The results […]

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Trump’s Ignorance

During a speech on Thursday, President Trump revealed a striking ignorance of one of the pillars of his country’s educational system. In the course of promoting his infrastructure plan, he, a bit perplexingly, dismissed the country’s community colleges, suggesting he doesn’t know what purpose they serve. “We do not know what a ‘community college’ means,” […]

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Reforms in Remediation

Colleges, particularly community colleges, have long relied upon remedial coursework to help academically underprepared students get ready for college-level work.[1] Students assigned to remediation may be required to take three or more remedial courses – which cost money, but do not confer college credit – before they can enroll in college-level coursework. The best available […]

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Ditch Remedial Classes

Remedial classes have got to go. Remedial classes are not just a necessary evil to be accepted when it comes to higher education, but a dangerous trap that can shatter students dream of earning their diploma. Many who cannot avoid remedial classes are likely to never advance further in their education. Being forced to take […]

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Make It Free

My college experience wasn’t like what you see in the movies. To put myself through school at UC Santa Barbara, I worked the night shifts at In & Out. My parents work hard, but their income from gardening and housekeeping just wasn’t enough to support me, too. I was taking a full course load and […]

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Who Doesn’t Like 2 Years Free Tuition?

While Gov. Phil Murphy’s first budget proposal looks to fulfill one campaign promise related to higher education — to make community college free — it does little to satisfy another pledge: to make college more affordable. A proposed $50 million hike in Tuition Aid Grants for community college students is one of the largest increases […]

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Forget “Free”

The “free college” movement, fueled to a large degree by Bernie Sanders during his 2016 presidential bid, is a response to concerns about increasing college-tuition rates, concomitant stagnation in state and federal grants, and a corresponding student-loan debt load that has ballooned to roughly $1.4 trillion. Indeed, inflation-adjusted data provided by the College Board shows […]

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Fulfilling the Promise

College costs have been on the rise for the past several decades. And it’s only getting worse. In recent years, college costs have outpaced income gains. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted that between 1973 and 2015, average inflation-adjusted public college tuition had risen by 281 percent, while median household income had grown […]

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“College for All”

“Put free college on the November ballot,” urges Estuardo Mazariegos to a student walking by. “Make California higher education free again, like it was in the 1970s.” Mazariegos greets fellow students as they return from their holiday break to the Dominguez Hills campus of the California State University in Los Angeles, one of 23 state-university […]

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