COMMUNITY COLLEGES ARE AMERICA'S ECONOMIC ENGINES. THEY ARE THE GATEWAY TO MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICA. READ THE ARTICLE BELOW AND LEARN WHY!
Community colleges are America’s economic engines. They are gateways to middle class jobs, and their open-access, affordable programs hold the key to college access, affordability and completion for millions of students from every walk of life. This Administration has invested more than $2 billion in community colleges, from TAACCCT grants, to the President’s America’s College Promise proposal, to make two free years of college the norm for every responsible student, as well as the proposed American College Training Fund, to help more workers skill up for high-wage, high-demand careers.
The life-changing potential of a strong community college education was on powerful and moving display at Cincinnati State, where Secretary Arne Duncan and Under Secretary Ted Mitchell visited as part of the Ready for Success bus tour. Among the speakers was Bryan Dell, who for years was a drug addict and dealer, before getting sober and enrolling at Cincinnati State to study social work. He spoke movingly of the turnaround in his life and the deep support from the college staff, credits in large part to Cincinnati State and its Black Male Initiative. “The one thing a person must have to succeed in this is commitment,” he said.
When Bryan arrived on campus a few years ago, he hadn’t been in a classroom since 1979 – the year he graduated from high school. Since then, it seemed his life had jumped the rails. But Bryan had begun the long journey out of drug and alcohol addiction, and a colleague at the treatment program he was attending recommended he also consider going back to school. As hard as it was to take that step, once he’d enrolled at Cincinnati State, Bryan never looked back.
Click the link to read more: http://www.ed.gov/blog/2015/09/community-college-stop-on-the-ready-for-success-bus-tour/
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Friday, September 18th 2015 at 5:28PM
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