I come from somewhere that just has colleges and that’s it. What even is a community college?
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One additional thing not being mentioned is that community colleges are also usually a key component for the workforce development strategy of a county or the community the CC serves. CCs put emphasis into creating the type of skilled workers being sought as part of the workforce development project. Whether it be health care, manufacturing, technology, trade skills, etc. Their course and degree offerings are specifically tailored to serve the labor needs of the community or if the types of businesses the community is trying to attract.
Ya know how in middle school and highschool we got counted off on our papers for grammar and punctuation?
At community College the instructors often don’t realize/care there are any spelling or grammatical errors (especially online courses).
Coming from the other side, community colleges allow lesser educated people to teach their classes.
For a university/regular college, you must have a PhD to teach the class. Sure, you can have a teaching assistant help you, and for a lot of professors, that includes everything up to and including actually teaching the lecture, but the PhD must LEAD the class, prepare the class curriculum, etc.
At a community college, people with a masters or even graduate students or even sometimes less are allowed to teach. Sometimes, community colleges allow people with degrees from other countries that got degrees from universities that don’t have US accreditation to teach.
Now….I know a lot of… shady… universities are trying to allow people with lesser degrees to teach and they’re claiming it’s “temporary” because of covid, but that’s… technically… not allowed.
Community colleges also tend to focus on “non traditional” students. Aka not students right out of high school. Students who are adults who otherwise have day jobs, etc.
Source: Taught at a… shady… university that did exactly what I said. They replaced all the PhD professors with professors from other countries, or with masters students or graduate students and paid them half as much as they’d pay a normal professor. By “replace” I mean “they made it sufficiently annoying to keep working there that we all just… left when they started doing shady stuff.” We went from 12 professors in our department to 2 of the original left in 2 years. And the only reason those two were staying was because for 1, his Visa depended on it (he was from a country that had very well accredited universities and he went to one of them), and for the other, she was affiliated with the museum in town, which allowed her to do things she otherwise wouldn’t be able to do.
‘Community College’, ‘Trade School’ or ‘Technical College’ is US terminology for institutions that offer (generally useless) ‘non-degree certificate’ programs & (slightly more useful, if your state mandates it’s 4-year colleges take transfer credits 1:1) 2-year ‘associates degrees’.
They have recently gotten a lot of political attention from ‘Team Orange’ folks who are pissed at the left-wing slant of traditional 4-year colleges & the business world, encouraging red-state kids to go to ‘community college’ and ‘learn a trade’ rather than get a bachelors & seek white-collar employment.
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