While they still have the stigma of high schools with ashtrays, great things are happening on community college campuses. They are essential to increasing the average American's access to increased education. Community colleges offer a cheaper means to begin a college career or to obtain vocational training (e.g. fire science, HVAC, or criminal justice). Most community colleges also offer schedules that accommodate students' need to work while attending school. As our economy has all but eliminated a manufacturing base, community colleges have played a central roll in empowering a changing/aging workforce's ability to train/retrain for new careers in a new economy.
That all being written, community colleges play a totally different role than that of a university.
Also, please note the questioner's bias -- they ask whether a "community college" is as respected as a "Four year University." Why is the university capitalized while the community college is posted in a lower case? If you are going to post a question, I think debate is better if you at least try to make it neutral and worded in a manner that yields two well balanced positions.
by elwoodlaw (83.67) on 3/30/10. | 0 | |  | 0 |
