What is a Community College?

Running head: COMMUNITY COLLEGES 1
Community Colleges
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Institution

COMMUNITY COLLEGES 2
Community Colleges
Introduction
Community colleges indeed have to do more to help produce more college graduates. In
the United States, Community colleges can provide learners with feasible pathways into good
jobs. Nevertheless, many learners who enroll in most of the community colleges do not finish a
degree or certificate. Particularly, fewer than forty percentages of community college learners
earn degrees or certificates within 6years of enrolment. To assist more learners graduate, the
government ought to revamp community colleges or institutions into a more structured
environment mainly by including fewer courses and employing more advisers to help guide the
students to finish their degrees. This paper supports the work of Alina Tugend entitled
‘revamping community colleges to enhance graduation rates.' The article is relevant for
policymakers, community colleges seeking to offer learners with the appropriate route to well-
paying jobs.
There are indeed various factors that can hamper the completion rates. These factors
include financial constraints and inadequate academic preparation. To add to all these factors, it
is true that addressing financial and educational barriers is fundamentally essential to enhancing
community college completion among students. Many researchers argue that gaps in completion
of college persist between high and low income learners. These disparities are due to lack of
enough resources to fund their studies. It is true that most of the colleges require tuition fees and
other learning services such as books and all these require the use of money. So, financial
constraints can hamper the learning process in most of the community colleges.
Indeed, the traditional structure of colleges (community colleges) can hamper the
progress of students toward completing a degree or credential (Tugend, 2016). Many researchers
argue that the traditional structure of most of the community colleges is one of the main reasons