Time Magazine is asking a provocative question this week – can community colleges save the U.S. economy?

Says Time in its Monday, July 20, 2009 issue:

as the Center for American Progress concluded in a February report, “America’s future economic success may well depend on how we invest in two-year institutions.”

But despite a high profile from the Obama administration, community colleges across the nation are struggling with current budget cuts – NVCC‘s Robert Templin is quoted that the college has lost 10 percent of its funding in the past two years and is losing full-time professors as it braces for more.

Uniquely suited to prepare Americans for careers, community colleges need more resources to handle the load, and more intensive focus on goals to get all students to the finish line.

- Posted by Susan Hayden