Schools are starting any day now!!!

It's back to school time and that means college too. For many, the increasing cost of higher education and the decrease in resources and savings have changed their plans. Some students have delayed their educational goals, while others have chosen part-time study versus full-time study. One of the phenomenons of this economic crisis is the increasingly important role that community colleges are now playing in higher education. All across the country, enrollment in these institutions are skyrocketing. At our local community college, enrollemnt is up 17%!!!Community colleges were generally thought of as the "college of last resort". However, they are now gaining recognition as a financially and academically competitive choice for students and their families. And why not? With the cost of tuition for a year being a fraction of that of a four year private college, it is providing many with the ability to go to college when they thought that they could not.

So perhaps this "economic crisis" has opened the eyes of many. The beginnings of a quality college education might just be right in their own backyard. They just never took the time to look there before, because they didn't have too...the community college was there all along!!!