Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Community Colleges

Although I'm late to the table, I still wanted to post a note of support for a community college in the Treasure Valley. Many cogent arguments have been made in the blogosphere, by Adam, Bubblehead, Julie, Branden Durst, and Tara, and you're better off reading the full arguments on those sites that having me repeat or paraphrase them. As you can see, support comes from both sides of the political spectrum.

What tipped me over was that BSU supports community colleges to free it up from providing similar services. BSU wants to focus on becoming a "Metropolitan Research University of Distinction," and providing community college-type classes and services detracts from that focus.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

BSU wants more money for the Broncos. The money isn't big enough in research, those are just the peanuts they'll farm out to educational universities like UofI