UCR Via SoCal Minds
UCR's Community College collaborative holding a forum about the Critical Issues facing Community Colleges on June 10th. See here for details.
I didn't know about UCR's Community College Collaborative before 8:00 AM this morning, and now I know and what they do sounds like its right down our alley, except supported by older people with suits and all kinds of brag sheets. They've got some interesting current projects including an investigation of under-represented graduate students and promising practices for transferring.
We should keep a CBS eyeball on them.
In context of promoting the event, they brought up an interesting stat about community colleges:
Dropout rate of the California community college is 75%. ! ? Had never seen a stat like that before.
Perhaps a bit over-inflated to me, but still, given the fact that only 25% of people actually do transfer, and the reality that I almost expect some Filipino, black, or Latino dude that I might meet randomly by the unity that is basketball to be dabbling in some job they hate, it's probably not that far off.
But on the other hand, maybe it's not so grave as these academicians want you to think. There are probably lots of reasons why people drop out and sometimes maybe it's for the better? What good is all this education and degree-achieving if you can haul in some money more quickly and sustainably via other means?
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