I’m going to start posting excerpts from comments on news article that I worry are warnings, and that seem to substantiate what I have seen elsewhere. I’m doing this because I don’t have personal experience with those colleges and need to rely on others’ reports. I will stick with what they say they have seen.
Expanding Community College Access – NYTimes.com.
Taylor Stoermer
Saugerties, NY 1 hour ago
“….Are community colleges ready for it? My recent experience in New York suggests that are not, by a long shot. On both sides of the Hudson River, I encountered disaffected, underpaid, even dangerously unqualified faculty, a term that I use loosely in this context. There were lecturers who had never encountered a syllabus. Others who didn’t hold final exams…”
John Eudy
Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico 1 hour ago
“As someone who helped found one of the largest community colleges in the nation…Believe me when I say, with 40 years of teaching and administering at the college and University levels, administrators are looking at the President’s plan and licking their lips at the windfall they think they can use for salaries or buildings instead of instruction…”
Todd Stuart
key west,fl 2 hours ago
“…Currently, a third of students in community colleges are taking some remedial classes to try to get up to the level of high school grade…”
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