State college pilot keeps growing

The list keeps getting longer.

The House today will take up an amended version of the "State College System" bill that would come fall 2008 allow eight community colleges to offer four-year bachelor's degrees as part of a pilot project aimed at improving access to higher degrees. The original proposal (SB1716) had only three institutions including St. Petersburg College in the pilot.

The proposal to be considered this afternoon includes  Chipola College, Daytona Beach College, Indian River College, Miami Dade College, Okaloosa-Walton College, Polk College, Santa Fe College, and St. Petersburg College.

Comments

Why not just change junior high schools into colleges. It would save a lot of money. The expense for high schools and universities could be eliminated in one shot.

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Chipola College already offers some 4 year degrees.

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Will there be any schools left in the "community college" system?

This has becoms an absurd bill. Many of these schools are in areas with either a large public university, (Dade, Santa Fe, Daytona) multiple private colleges (Polk, Daytona, Miami-Dade) or both. Why do we need so much access when the K-12 enrollment in Florida is declining. What a waste of scarce taxpayer resources. This is so much mroe than mission creep. It is wholesale expansion fo what community colleges do when they do not do a very good job of what they are already signed up to do. Has anyone checked their graduation and retention rates lately....pitiful!