Grant Will Help Community College Students Get Up to Speed
With state funding on the decline, institutions of higher education in Texas must increasingly look to outside sources for help tackling problems such as low graduation rates. This week, Complete College America, a national nonprofit focused on boosting higher education success, announced a million-dollar grant to help Texas handle students who show up to college ill-prepared.
Currently, 48 percent of students in Texas community colleges require some help to get up to speed. When it comes to math, 38 percent of those enrolling in community college do not meet readiness standards. Traditionally, such students have been put in remedial courses ...
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Tom Van Schaik via Texas Tribune on Facebook
most texas students show up unprepared (seeing we are #47 in education and heading downward) forcing universities to add more and more remedial courses just to teach the basics. I feel that is one reason that the 4 year graduation rates are so low. Students spend the first year or so learning what they should have known coming in!!!!
Chad Presley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
College is over-rated. Heard that there are lots of jobs avail to operate machinery but not enough skilled folks to do it. When did we think we were to good for that. And people wonder why our country has fallen so far...
Katie Plass via Texas Tribune on Facebook
1 million dollar grant going to 15 community colleges to allow some students to get credit hours in a subject they have yet to master. Good to see that 1 million dollars can be wasted in such an efficient manner.
Milan Moravec
Higher education students and parents of students suffer at # 70 Forbes University of California Berkeley. "Every qualified student should get a place in the college/university system." That's a desirable goal for a public university. However, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau displaces qualified Californians with $50,600 foreign and out-of-state students.
UC tuition increases exceed the national average rate of increase. The University of California Board of Regents jeopardizes Californians attending higher education by making UC the most expensive public university in the United States.
Self-serving tuition increases are used by UC President Mark Yudof to increase the pay of 80,000 eligible faculty and others. Payoffs like these point to higher operating costs and still higher tuition for Californians.
I agree that faculty in higher education and senior management, like Yudof and Birgeneau, should consider the students' welfare and put it high on their values.
Deeds unfortunately do not bear out the students' welfare values of senior management and the UC Board of Regents.