The danger of neglecting community colleges
An in-depth look at Massachusetts’s struggling community colleges. Community colleges are a complicated issue: their missions are not always well-defined, they serve an extremely wide range of students, suffer from a lack of funding, and compete for legislative focus. The path from community college to a four-year college is perhaps best mapped in California where “nearly one-third of University of California system students start at a community college before graduating from a UC campus”.