Because of President Obama's
desire to remake the
community college system into a
vanguard of job retraining and the general
willingness of community colleges to take up that mantle, there is currently some soul searching about the role of the community college system. The American Association of Community Colleges, in a
report titled, "
Reclaiming the American Dream: Community Colleges and the Nation's Future", lays out a plan for a future community college system much different than
what exists today:
"Now, there's a focus on accountability," says Walter Bumphus, president of the AACC. "We were founded on the premise of being open-access institutions, but recently there's been a pivot to focus more on student success. There's a focus not just on having them transfer [to four-year schools, but on getting them into the workforce."(
US News and World Report)
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posted by dave78981
on Apr 24, 2012 -
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