California Community Colleges approve overhaul/SF Chronicle
January 11th, 2012FYI
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/09/BAH41MN1JJ.DTL
“California community college leaders voted Monday to support a systemwide overhaul that could end many free classes for older adults and squeeze out students who fail to move quickly through the system.”
“Board member Peter MacDougall, chairman of the Student Success Task Force that drew up the 22 recommendations over the last year, said colleges can no longer afford to put out the welcome mat they have offered for generations.”
“As wonderful as having open admission is, if it’s a false promise, it fails,” he said (Macdougall)
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MacDougall is retired/former long time president of Santa Barbara Community College, which consistently had and continues to have one of the highest transfer, graduation rates among community colleges in the state based upon FTE enrollments.
I applaud MacDougall for his courageous recommendations and insight into the problem. Far too few students are graduating/transferring from our community colleges. A high number of student enrollments need several remedial class sections before taking college level class sections and many of these students then drop out before transfer/graduation.
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