I.Introduction
II. Community college as a stepping stone to four year institutions.
ii.Statistics of those who transfer to schools such as Rutgers. Dean Robin Diamonds interview. The background on
community colleges, for example : did society and the government just throw this standing of being a place to go to aid
in getting into 4 year schools. how come they are not prepared from the types of students that come there? (still trying
to find this information.) does going to community college really save you money or in the end is it worth it because
when you go to a four year institution not all of your credits transfer and some times you fail courses leading you to
have to stay
longer which costs more money.
III. The types of students that attend RUTGERS and why is it that those types of students attend.
iii.What do community colleges do about those students who are exceptional when it comes to school considering that
those students who attend community college normally do not know what they want to do in life or the fact that they
don't do good in high school.
IV. The depiction of community college in fiction.
iv. What does this representation in fiction portray? does it compare to reality? scholarly sources show the views of
community college and the ways that community colleges act on that vision.
V. The transfer process.
v. What community colleges have to say on transferring. Do they encourage transferring or do they encourage students
to take their time and finish out with an associates degree.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
A few comments:
ReplyDelete1) I suggest you change the title of your blog to reflect your new topic... :-)
2) I think you are right about the mission imagined by CCs themselves, as open admission institutions, running counter to the use they are being put to as stepping stones to four year degrees. I think you are right: the stepping stone idea was developed by government as a stop-gap measure to provide access to an increasing number of students seeking college degrees. But the CCs did not get on board. As it is, NJ graduates so many high school grads with such good prep, that we are woefully behind in providing those students with college seats, leading to the largest out-migration of college students of any state (see the Governor's report for details). So the government had to come up with something. They just did not really consult the CCs or try to get them to become more selective about admission.
3) You might consider looking into whether or not community colleges in NJ have become at all selective -- or if some have -- or have developed selective honors programs designed to help prepare students planning on going to 4-year schools. I know that Mercer CC has one, for instance, though they are so committed to open-admission that it seems incompatible with their mission. I found an interesting article on Honors Programs at Community Colleges. Though it is over 12 years old, it does offer a very interesting overview of the historical reasons why many community colleges dropped honors programs or did not develop them. I think CCs are still emerging from the egalitarian vision of open admissions, but as the budget pushes more good students into CCs there is going to be more demand for 4-year-prep honors programs.
I think you could do more in outlining to point to your sources at each step. What texts are you using for each part of your argument?
ReplyDelete