California should prepare for increasing enrollment demand on its community colleges, which may need to serve an additional 200,000 students by 2019, the California Postsecondary Education Commission says. The 110-college system, which took an 8-percent cut in state support this year, will not be able to keep up with the demand without annual increases in state funds, it warned. “These are conservative projections,” John Perez, the commission’s chairman, said in a news release. “The problem could actually be worse.”
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2 Responses to Enrollment Demand on California Community Colleges Is Expected to Increase
evbiii - September 1, 2009 at 8:06 am
I just hope California’s educational establishment and policymakers are prepared to create Student Success Centers with Directors capable of helping students stay in school, get good grades and graduate. Equal educational opportunity doesn’t matter if there is no measurable student success.
charlescarrillo - September 2, 2009 at 12:29 am
Student success: system success. It makes sense that if students come to CCs without the needed preparation, the colleges are in an ideal position to train the newcomers to entrance standards. Perhaps this is the only solution though I fear that high schools would eventually get lazier about their role in public education and defer the academic stuff to the CCs entirely. Might not there be a new bifurcation, a channeling of people into more immutable classes of learned and unlearned groups? On the other hand, technical arts are becoming ever more sophisticated and demanding upon their practitioners. Perhaps the services industries will produce a whole new kind of academe. Is there a socio-economic-politico-education expert in the house?