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it helps students get on a solid, successful path. College prep supports students to take classes that shows them what college classes will be like. Also helps students show college may be good for them. According to, the opponents college prep doesn't support diversity, interest in students, and doesn’t support two year colleges. College prep only supports four year colleges and pushes students to go there instead of two year. As a result, college prep ignores diversity and what some students…

Free college tuition has become a debatable issue especially with some candidates in the 2016 election year. The Democratic Party has made this important within their campaign. College tuition is known to be expensive, but the question presented with this is to who should fund college education. Currently in the U.S. today, higher education is a balance between students and the government with more of a focus on students. The government pays for higher education dependent upon levels of income.…

Among liberals, the idea of public colleges being tuition free is very popular indeed. However, conservatives believe the idea alone results in the death of a baby somewhere. Despite this, public colleges should be tuition free, as the benefits to the society will be huge, it will rid students of crushing student debt, and it will ensure that students will be competitive in a global environment. One reason why public colleges should be tuition free is that it will result in a huge benefit to…

several hidden small prints that may result in certain disadvantages for Americans. Many colleges across the country already offer student loans and other scholarships for low-income families in order to provide accessible education. Moreover, if this plan turns into an official policy, expenses for federal and local governments will increase up to $75 billion annually, only in public universities and colleges. As a result of such expenditures, nationwide increases in taxes would be…

Revamping Community College In the article “Revamping Community Colleges to Improve Graduation Rates” it talks about ways that people of education are working to help improve the graduation rate. While I am all for more people going to college and getting degrees, I do not agree with the changes that the article suggests. One of the changes that they are trying to enforce is the idea of free college. In the article, it states that “Bills are pending to carry out President Obama’s America’s…

In the American Community College Book, Cohen, Brawer and Kisker (2014) explains the purpose of community colleges and their existence. The American Community Colleges were established in the early years of the twentieth century. The most prominent purpose was the need for workers trained to operate the nation’s expanding industries (Cohen, Brawer, and Kisker, 2014). This new idea of a community college spread rapidly, because the thought was new technologies demanded skilled operators, and…

Colleges will have to devote additional expenditures for students if the college has an “open door” policy. “Open door” policies make it more affordable for people who want to attend college. Even if the student is intimidated by all of the difficult criteria the college offers, enrolling in an open door policy college would still be cheaper. According to NCSALL, “By keeping the doors to higher education wide open, community colleges have accepted the responsibility for educating all their…

What is the goal of your College Education? Some people may think that college is about leaving home, picking a career, getting a job to make money and working for the rest of their lives. However, some of this is true, a lot of it is wrong. College is so much more than this. The purpose of a college education is to prepare you to take your place in the economy, prepare you for a full life and for lifelong learning, and to prepare you to be a Christian leader throughout the rest of…

Brunswick County, from Leland to Ash. This is my second year attending Brunswick Community College. My long term educational goal is to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition or Psychology. I haven’t decided which one I enjoy best at the moment. I plan on getting my Bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. But first, I am finishing up getting my Associate in Arts degree at Brunswick Community College. Then I will transfer to UNCW for my continuing studies. My life time…

More often than in the past I education needs to meet the growing demands of the college system that government. Many institutions of higher education have been placed under some form of performance-based metrics. Of these performance-based reviews, completion and retention have become the focus of many institutions. This push for retention has made many institutions assess how they retain students and has prompted new initiatives to aid them. When looking at retention it raises two main…