July 28, 2006

The Value of a Community-College Degree

To the Editor:

"Working-Class Students Increasingly End Up at Community Colleges, Giving Up on a 4-Year Degree" (The Chronicle, June 9) is offensive, as well as dead wrong. About half the students currently enrolled in higher education are at community colleges. They are there for a variety of reasons, in many cases not with the goal of attaining a four-year degree.

The fact that not all those students get a four-year degree does not mean that they have not met their goals. Nor

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