April 18, 2008
Community-College Leaders Grapple With Budget Cuts, Accountability, and Competition
The pressures on community colleges have mounted for years: They must balance competition from the growing for-profit-education industry, demands from lawmakers for more accountability, and the shifting needs of an increasingly complex student body.
Most recently, intense financial pressure has been added to the mix as states once again face billion-dollar deficits.
Those strains were the main topic as hundreds of community-college leaders met here last week for the annual
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