October 24, 2008

2-Year Colleges Are Eager to Prove Their Worth

By Paul Basken

In some ways, it’s the best of times for the nation’s community colleges. When the economy sags, discouraged workers often try to improve their skills, and enrollments at the country’s most-affordable type of college boom.

At the same time, the federal government’s recent focus on making institutions prove their academic quality has left community colleges feeling highly vulnerable, unable to prove the value they give their students and therefore worried about losing

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