Obama: Community college should be ‘as free and universal in America as high school’
The proposal would allow "tuition-free classes for students going to school at least half time who maintain a GPA of 2.5 or higher and are making steady progress toward a degree or transferring to a four-year institution."
Northeastern is a four year school and not strictly a community college, but it's a wonderful model of public higher education for working people, the disenfranchised, and those unable to follow a conventional trajectory in pursuing career and life goals.
Northeastern, and colleges in general, not only draw on taxpayer funds, but encourage rational, diverse viewpoints, and foster cooperative collaborations between people of all stripes, colors, and creeds. Of course it's thus antithetical to conservative priorities in this country.
It's great to see so much political action on this and other campuses, outside of exemplary and challenging classroom experiences.
How can being in community college influence people towards more inclusive views? How can campuses be even more effective forums for political discussion and action?
Do you think it is the task of community colleges or colleges more generally to influence people toward more inclusive views? I tend to think so, but I also believe this is why some political parties and operators are critical of universities, dismissing them as bastions of liberalism.
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