November 7, 2008

Community Colleges, Eager to Prove Their Worth, Develop Voluntary Standards of Performance

By PAUL BASKEN

The federal government's recent focus on making institutions prove their academic quality has left community colleges feeling highly vulnerable, uncertain about how to demonstrate their value to students and therefore worried about losing crucial taxpayer support — especially as their enrollments rise in a sagging economy.

Community-college leaders are now setting out to fix that, and hoping they haven't waited too long. In the past few weeks, the heads of the nation's major

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