The Decentralization Of Community College

Of all the United States government spending, education is one of the most lacked in funding. Even though this money is coming from the peoples’ tax dollars, it is not going to good use to educate those who will run the country in the future. From public school districts, to four-year college institutions, programs that have been made to benefit students have been annihilated due to a district’s budget cuts. Some programs have been budgeted unfairly, like the Fine Arts for example. Another factor of the U.S. education is the rising amount of growing university tuition prices. Although incoming college freshman has risen, the amount of student debt has risen drastically in the last few decades. Some parents are considering the possibility of …show more content…
Community colleges are shown to give about 46 percent of all undergraduate students. Annually, of the 1.5 million graduates with a bachelor’s degree, 300,000 of which have transferred from a community college. Although the country primarily looks at four year institutions when it comes to expanding their education, community colleges are vital to this system (Mellow 2008). One vital factor of the U.S. university system is that is has been decentralized since the beginning, unlike countries, like France. Ivy League colleges like Harvard and Yale were designed like European college systems, while many other schools stayed within the decentralized system. The sole problem with this concept is that the schools had to depend on needs and support of the local community for financial support and admissions. On the contrary, higher education has been easier to access than it has been in Europe (Rosenberg 325). To improve the U.S innovations towards science and technology, higher education needs to be available to all high school graduates. If a college education were to have easier access to those of a lower income, the nation would have a steadier, and educated workforce for the