<p>One of the other issues with respect to community colleges is their frequent slowness to adapt to changing demands, in part because they have staffing issues. As was mentioned upthread, nursing programs are terribly undersized, and from what one of the clinical instructors told me when MIL was in a hospital where students do clinical work, the great shortage was on nursing instructors, and that the CC pay rates were too low to attract enough instructors. From the time a student finishes the prereqs for nursing (which sounded pretty stiff) they’re faced with a nearly two year wait to gain admission to the formal nursing program. </p>
<p>But on the remedial front, I just don’t think students belong in college who can’t do college work, even at the incredibly low levels required by CCs. Using up their financial aid capacity doesn’t help these students either.</p>