I just want to say that as a high-achieving high schooler who ended up at community college due to family illness: I am SO pro-CC. My community college experience was absolutely fantastic and some of the courses I took there remain among the stand-outs in my mind, over my academic career. Not to mention the real-life, real-world diversit…
I just want to say that as a high-achieving high schooler who ended up at community college due to family illness: I am SO pro-CC. My community college experience was absolutely fantastic and some of the courses I took there remain among the stand-outs in my mind, over my academic career. Not to mention the real-life, real-world diversity of my classmates.
I have two kids now and although they are only 4 and 7, I already talk to them about community colleges. I have structured my whole approach to the discussion of higher education to a) avoid the assumption of college, and b) assume that if college is the right route for them, community college is a natural starting point. I really, really appreciate the work to destigmatize community colleges - when I was 19 I felt the sting of that stigma every time I ran into an old classmate or teacher and had to "confess" what I was up to, when they inevitably asked, and it sucked a lot, and now that I have the benefit of wisdom and age it makes me outright angry.
I may make a TikTok account just to follow the Elgin CC account, honestly.
I just want to say that as a high-achieving high schooler who ended up at community college due to family illness: I am SO pro-CC. My community college experience was absolutely fantastic and some of the courses I took there remain among the stand-outs in my mind, over my academic career. Not to mention the real-life, real-world diversity of my classmates.
I have two kids now and although they are only 4 and 7, I already talk to them about community colleges. I have structured my whole approach to the discussion of higher education to a) avoid the assumption of college, and b) assume that if college is the right route for them, community college is a natural starting point. I really, really appreciate the work to destigmatize community colleges - when I was 19 I felt the sting of that stigma every time I ran into an old classmate or teacher and had to "confess" what I was up to, when they inevitably asked, and it sucked a lot, and now that I have the benefit of wisdom and age it makes me outright angry.
I may make a TikTok account just to follow the Elgin CC account, honestly.