Blogs/Opinion: Page 15

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Exploited Adjuncts

We know a woman who once earned about $9,000 per year, making her eligible for Section 8 housing, food stamps, fuel assistance, Medicaid, WIC, the Earned Income Credit and Head Start for her four children. You may be surprised that at the time, she was also a college professor. This was in the early ’90s, […]

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Trump’s Comments

One of my favorite things to do at the beginning of each semester is to review the class rosters and scan all my students’ beautiful names-names like Samrawit, Priyanka, and Chukwuemeka to name a few. That is because I teach at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland. Out of the approximately 60,000 students who will […]

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Punitive Measures

Many public-service institutions struggle to succeed, but Florida’s community college system is an exception. Its schools deliver a strong hand up to minority, low-income, first-generation and older students. Our own Miami Dade College leads the nation in the number of degrees awarded, and Broward College has the second highest graduation rates for African Americans. Overall, […]

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Getting the Green

Scholarships, tutoring through work-study, or waiting tables as a side hustle: These are all typical ways students have figured out how to pay for college. But for some, typical just doesn’t cut it. I chatted with five people who used rather creative ways to pay for college, doing everything from flipping sports equipment to scoring […]

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The Value of “Free”

A century ago, only about a fifth of 15- to 18-year-olds in the United States attended high school, and less than a tenth of 18-year-olds graduated. Simply put, getting a high school diploma wasn’t viewed as necessary back then for most people to get a job. But enrollment began to grow shortly after that period […]

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A Helping Hand

David H. Feldman is a professor in the economics department at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Writing in Fortune magazine, he argues that even tuition-free college education would not turn more low- to moderate-income students into graduates. State and federal grants and private and public scholarships — including a New York […]

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Back to School

Community colleges of the City University of New York have a low average graduation rate: only 23 percent of students earn an associate’s degree within 4 years. This is not uncommon for students who must juggle work, school and family responsibilities, or who don’t have the skillset to succeed in a college environment. The problem […]

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“We’re Essential”

Community colleges play a significant role in United States higher education. They enroll almost half of all U.S. undergraduate students and are essential for workforce training and retraining. As long as students are looking for less expensive courses that transfer easily — with excellent teaching, a supportive environment and a variety of learning options — […]

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Stand for DACA

It can be easy to get lost in the rhetoric, and caught up in the passions that often go hand in hand when discussing our nation’s immigration policies. But when it comes to the president’s decision to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program effective in March and the failure of Congress to […]

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A Student’s Journey

My childhood dream was to be a teacher. But because of my dyslexia and difficulty with math, I thought the only jobs I’d ever be qualified for were jobs that don’t require a college degree. It wasn’t until the recession hit and I lost my job waiting tables that I decided try community college. At […]

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Transparency in Education

My original plan wasn’t to attend college. The alarming rate of college graduates saddled with student debt without career-centered jobs was enough for me to not want to attend an institution of higher education. I watched my older sister, a first-generation college student and first-generation American attend a private arts institution with little help in […]

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Social Media Savvy

There is life after cellphones. My mass comm students at North Lake College looked up from their screens and gave their thumbs a rest for our final paper of the semester. They reported and wrote on “Social Media: Good, Bad or Neutral for Democracy?” Ours was a diverse group. A Bengali woman, mother of a […]

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