Any mass community college folks here?

[hester]

Hello All,

 I'm wondering if there are any mass community college folks here.

 There are a few new programs making community college close to free.

 Initially, there was a 15-20 pct increase attributed to these programs.

  I'm seeing and hearing the numbers are falling as many of these students have dropped or not returning in the spring.

 Hoping to hear from others about their observations.

Thank you

[ciao_yall]

Hello All,

 I'm wondering if there are any mass community college folks here.

 There are a few new programs making community college close to free.

 Initially, there was a 15-20 pct increase attributed to these programs.

  I'm seeing and hearing the numbers are falling as many of these students have dropped or not returning in the spring.

 Hoping to hear from others about their observations.

Thank you

At my CC when we rolled it out, most of the interest was community members taking Spanish, art, etc for personal interest.

Free tuition is nice, but you still have to take unpaid time off from work, buy books, maybe hire a babysitter.

So if the goal is to increase enrollment from low-income community members make sure you are prepared to have a conversation about generous  social and financial support.

[apl68]

Hello All,

 I'm wondering if there are any mass community college folks here.

 There are a few new programs making community college close to free.

 Initially, there was a 15-20 pct increase attributed to these programs.

  I'm seeing and hearing the numbers are falling as many of these students have dropped or not returning in the spring.

 Hoping to hear from others about their observations.

Thank you

At my CC when we rolled it out, most of the interest was community members taking Spanish, art, etc for personal interest.

Free tuition is nice, but you still have to take unpaid time off from work, buy books, maybe hire a babysitter.

So if the goal is to increase enrollment from low-income community members make sure you are prepared to have a conversation about generous  social and financial support.

Well, it's great that some people are able to take advantage of this to do some learning just for the sake of curiosity.  That's a good thing, and worth providing to a community.  It's not the kind of workforce development the legislators would have had in mind, though, when they agreed to it.  Those who want to take advantage of it, need to do so while they can.