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</a>What is <strong>California</strong> hoping to buy with the <strong>$6.4 billion </strong>it spends each year on community colleges?</p>
<p>Remedial academics? College prep? Vocational instruction? &#8216;Educational enrichment&#8217;?</p>
<p>The answer is &#8220;yes&#8221; &#8212; and that is the root of many problems plaguing the <strong>California Community College</strong> system, according to <a href="http://www.lhc.ca.gov/studies/210/Report210.pdf">a new report by the <strong>Little Hoover Commissio</strong>n</a>, the independent state watchdog.</p>
<p>California&#8217;s Community College system is the nation’s largest college system, with <strong>112</strong> campuses governed by <strong>72</strong> districts and more than <strong>2.6 million</strong> students. In <strong>Orange County</strong>, that includes <strong>Cypress, Fullerton, Orange Coast, Irvine Valley, Coastline, Santa Ana, Golden West, Santiago Canyon </strong>and<strong> Saddleback </strong>community colleges, with <strong>tens of thousands</strong> of students.</p>
<p>&#8220;(T)he community colleges have opened doors to people who want to improve the quality of their lives by earning more income, building skills to run a business, excelling in careers, being better parents, or taking another chance to realize their dreams and fulfill their potential,&#8221; the Little Hoover Commission said. &#8220;Yet, the Commission found that in trying to be all things to everyone, community colleges are coming up short for many.</p>
<p><a href="http://taxdollars.ocregister.com/2012/03/01/community-colleges-6-4-billion-buys-confusion/149971/2011-05-07-063/" rel="attachment wp-att-149983"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-149983" style="margin: 12px" src="http://taxdollars.ocregister.com/files/2012/03/2011-05-07-063-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>&#8220;In this study, the Commission found that the state lacks a clear, uniform set of goals for its community college system and campuses. Too many students leave without accomplishing what they set out to achieve, whether learning new job skills or completing a certificate or degree program. Too many are unprepared for college-level work and do not receive adequate guidance to help them make up their educational deficits. At the same time, many students are hobbled in their progress by system policies that encourage campuses to increase enrollment at the expense of the services and supports that can help students move through the system and on with their lives. The result is that community colleges are rationing access, but not in a rational way, putting students on waiting lists who are prepared to succeed at college-level work. In making its recommendations, the Commission envisions a system that asks more of students, but asks more of colleges as well in supporting students and helping them move up and out of the system.&#8221;</p>
<p>While the colleges pride themselves on serving as &#8220;a critical entry point to higher education&#8221; &#8212; particularly for low-income and minority students who otherwise might not pursue college &#8212; studies have found that only <strong>3.3 percent</strong> of students actually managed to earn a certificate, and and only <strong>7.9 percent</strong> earned an associate’s degree. Nearly <strong>23 percent</strong> transferred.</p>
<p><span id="more-149971"></span>A big problem: Community colleges are open to, and must accept, all comers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Unlike the state’s four year universities, California Community Colleges operate as open institutions, by law admitting &#8216;any California resident who possesses a high school diploma&#8217; or anyone 18 years of age or older &#8216;who is capable of profiting from the instruction offered.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
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<p>But graduating from high school doesn&#8217;t mean students are ready for college work.</p>
<p>&#8220;As long as it is acceptable for students to pass the [California high school exit exam] with 10th grade English and 8th grade math skills, we will have problems,” <strong>San Diego Community College District Chancellor Constance Carroll</strong> told the Commission.</p>
<p>The Little Hoover Commission makes a long list of suggestions on how to fix things &#8212; from reforming enrollment, funding and governing systems to, essentially, deciding what community colleges want to be when they grow up.<a href="http://www.lhc.ca.gov/studies/210/Report210.pdf"> You can read more about that here.</a></p>
<p>California Community Colleges Chancellor <strong>Jack Scott</strong> said he&#8217;s working on it.</p>
<p>“The Little Hoover Commission is absolutely correct in calling on California as a state to prioritize its investment in community colleges around the goal of student success,&#8221; <a href="http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/Portals/0/DocDownloads/PressReleases/FEB2012/MEDIA_STATEMENT_LittleHooverReport_FINAL_022812.pdf">Scott said in a prepared statement</a>. &#8220;We have been focused on this goal over the past year with our <a href="http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/Portals/0/Executive/StudentSuccessTaskForce/SSTF_Final_Report_1-17-12_Print.pdf">Student Success Task Force recommendations</a>, which will result in more students transferring to four-year institutions and earning certificates and degrees. While a good number of the commission’s recommendations align with our strategies, others take a different approach. I want to thank the commission for its consideration of ways to improve California community colleges.”</p>
<p>More about the <a href="http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/Portals/0/Executive/StudentSuccessTaskForce/SSTF_Final_Report_1-17-12_Print.pdf">community college system&#8217;s reform plan is here</a>.</p>
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