I don't know if you've changed up your Substack or I'm just noticing it now, but you're really bringing a lot of value here. Thank you.
Apropos of nothing, I graduated in sociology from UC-Berkeley and one of our legendary faculty, Neil Smelser, had argued that the UC schools had no business providing lower division education and that all students should go to community colleges for two years then transfer to finish at a UC campus. That idea obviously never caught on, but it used to be that the UCs took a bunch of community college transfers. I hope it's still true.
Great piece, John. I have two questions. Do high school attendance trends parallel the trends for community college attendance? Is funding for community colleges declining?
I don't know if you've changed up your Substack or I'm just noticing it now, but you're really bringing a lot of value here. Thank you.
Apropos of nothing, I graduated in sociology from UC-Berkeley and one of our legendary faculty, Neil Smelser, had argued that the UC schools had no business providing lower division education and that all students should go to community colleges for two years then transfer to finish at a UC campus. That idea obviously never caught on, but it used to be that the UCs took a bunch of community college transfers. I hope it's still true.
Great piece, John. I have two questions. Do high school attendance trends parallel the trends for community college attendance? Is funding for community colleges declining?