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- Title: Community Colleges Under Stress: Publicly Funded Two-Year Colleges Are Facing Daunting Challenges in Dealing with Surging Enrollments of Disadvantaged and Unprepared Students.
- Author : Issues in Science and Technology
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 215 KB
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It is now generally recognized that a high-school degree is no longer sufficient to achieve a family-supporting income in today's society. Society is increasingly divided by income, and income is highly correlated with education, with higher earners having at least a four-year degree. Real hourly wages for those with only a high-school diploma fell slightly between 1973 and 2005, from $14.39 to $14.14. Wages for those with a college degree but no postgraduate training rose modestly during the same period, from $21 to $24.67. Those with postgraduate training did even better. Individuals have increasingly recognized the benefits of more education, which has lead to big increases in applications to colleges at all levels. At the same time, higher education, especially a four-year college degree, is becoming more costly. As a result, more individuals are applying to two-year community colleges, which now enroll almost half of all college students, including disproportionate numbers of minority and immigrant students.
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