An increasing number of California’s community colleges are dealing with years of budget cuts by charging full price for personal enrichment classes that used to cost the same amount as academic courses. These classes run the gamut from pottery to conversational French to a slide show of someone’s trip to the Ukraine. They don’t provide any credits or lead to a degree and, until now, they didn’t have to meet any specific standards.
The Community College Board of Governors yesterday had it first look at uniform guidelines designed to ensure that students get what they pay for.
via Better quality of lifelong learning at community colleges – by Kathryn Baron.