March 27, 2009

Dormitories Bring Nothing but Trouble

By ROBERT E. RITSCHEL

Think of at least three components often found in community colleges' mission statements. It's likely that you came up with terms like access, accountability, and affordability. Many statements also contain some reference to meeting the education and training needs of the community. All are fitting and are the stuff of most missions of our nation's community colleges.

There seems to be, however, a growing predilection of many community-college leaders to move away from such fundamental