Some highly selective four-year colleges have policies that allow them to determine which credits count after a student enrolls. But others, like the University of Chicago, reject all credits from two-year institutions. It’s a practice that costs students thousands of dollars per credit and prevents them from graduating on time, with less debt, while colleges profit off of their enrollment.
High school senior Jonathan Cornejo, who has earned 4.0 GPA while serving as student body president and yearbook editor in chief, plans to go to a community college. Even with a substantial financial aid offer by his dream college UC San Diego, he can’t afford to attend the University of California — and he’s not alone.
“Pennsylvania is facing crisis-level workforce shortages, as more nurses are needed to care for patients, more educators are needed in our schools, and more public safety professionals are needed in our communities,” said Tuesday Stanley, president of Westmoreland County Community College and chair of the Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges.
The incoming president of North Carolina’s community college system says he wants to help advance people toward economic success through postsecondary education that will also meet the needs of employers who need high-skilled labor.
When OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst into public view last fall, it sent ripples through higher education in Wyoming. The state’s community colleges and the University of Wyoming quickly had to reckon with a technology that could write essays and answer assignments.
The services have seen a big spike in appointments since last summer when the program launched a website called Find Your Ally, where students can easily schedule a legal consultation from any community college campus.
