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An "A" for Access, a "C" for Success
Community colleges were created in 1947 by the President's Commission on Higher Education to give all Americans low-cost access to public higher education. Some 60 years later, they've delivered on that promise - but not, for the most part, on the successful lives that were meant to follow. That was the take-home message of the TC Community College Research Center's 2006 Spring Seminar, "Community Colleges and Educational Equity," held in early April. "Access without success is a hollow promise," said Nan Poppe, President of Portland Community College's Extended Learning Campus. "Those of us who work at community colleges see educational equity as core to our mission - but while community colleges have done a great job on the access part of equity, we are losing far too many students." ---Read the entire article by clicking on the link, below. Link to Article |
