A three-year-old initiative in Michigan to retrain displaced workers has been a boon for enrollment at for-profit colleges rather than at the state’s community colleges, according to a report in The Detroit News. Fewer than one-third of the displaced workers participating in the No Worker Left Behind program have chosen to attend two-year public colleges.
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One Response to Michigan Retraining Program Helps For-Profit Colleges More Than Community Colleges
wiedmant - July 7, 2010 at 11:22 am
Question: Are the community colleges offering compressed, full-time training programs (programs that could be completed in 6-12 months, for example)? Or are they offering programs built around the standard semester system? The for-profit schools are often more flexible and entrepreneurial when it comes to meeting the needs of “customers.” Could that be part of the explanation?