California Community Colleges System

Approximately 20 million students are projected to attend college each year. During college, the most influential aspects are the professors. Goodbye, Mr. Chips written by James Hilton was published in 1935 by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, Inc in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. While reading Goodbye, Mr. Chips, I realized all of the hardships and achievements that are seen within a professor. Professors are not only there to teach, but they are also there to make a…

Sander, Students Falling for Sanders, and College Doesn’t Need to be Free. it discusses Senator Sanders and his plan towards free tuition. He feels that it is a good idea to offer this to in-state students for college. Some of the authors of the articles agree with the idea of free tuition. In two of the articles, it states that Senator Sanders had an idea to help the poor and middle-class college students to get free college tuition. The cost of college today is extremely high for some families…

student can receive the opportunity to be productive citizens in their community. People with disability have the right by law according to the IDEA Act to receive services to prepare and then place them in post-secondary goals of their interest. Training, employment, independent living skills, and a strong I.E.P. team will give the student the best shot they have to being productive and successful members of their community. “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been…

Benefits of College Some students in college say they go to be able to make more money in the future. Many people attend community colleges to achieve an associate degree. It is true that individuals who achieve a two or four-year degree have better opportunities than one with a high school degree. Achieving an associate degree is a way to put he or she straight into the workforce with a better pay, when finishing the two-year degree program. Dr. John Dever believes, “Reality is that the…

the United States of America, there is a period of individuals who college degrees who do not have jobs. The graduation rates of all colleges students has increase as students are beginning to ask about career ready degrees. First-generation students should continue to be supported by having colleges and university remove barriers for all students. Lastly, as the…

Higher Education Cost and the Effect of Quality and Literacy The cost of a college education is becoming a serious national issue. With the cost of tuition and fees rapidly increasing, colleges are afraid of scaring off students. Daniel Casse and Bruno Manno, journalists from Academic Questions, examined the average price of attending a university for a bachelor’s degree. According to these journalists, “The cost of four years of tuition along with room and board at an Ivy League School may well…

from high school to college, we all have that assimilation that State Universities hold a much more desirable and more educational values than your local Community College. Wrong! Community Colleges have a great deal of benefits for new incoming college students fresh out of high school. Granted state universities have great educational backgrounds, but a community college can provide those benefits plus more. A State University may have the flashy lifestyle but a Community College is more…

persist in college or not. First-generation college students, in particular, face unique challenges in persisting throughout the community college system and being able to transfer out (Wang, 2009). Although research has proven that elements influencing a student’s ability to persist (or lack thereof) are wide and complex (Nakajima, Dembo & Mossler, 2012), our study seeks to gain an understanding of factors affecting the persistence of first-generation students attending a community college.…

For the first time, we have the opportunity to make choices. College is waiting to help students build their magnificent empire, by using their building blocks received in earlier years. One class at a time, their empire is being built. Everyone would benefit from college; it is always a good choice to develop into a more rounded person. Of course, many will probably disagree on the grounds that some jobs do not need college. They would say that there are many successful people that have…

The idea of making college free has been flying around a lot recently, and the fact that college cost so much is a huge deterrent from people going after a higher education. With free collage, or at least more scholarships put forward, we would be able to influence more minds to seek advancement. Just think, getting a better education with much less of a cost. Many people will argue that it will make the tax payers paying much more taxes, and to some degree that is true. The interesting thing is…