Gates Foundation Gives $16.5 Million for Community-College Programs

President Obama's Big Plans for Community Colleges

$12 billion for community college education, what a boost this would be! As one of the charterers of the fully accredited St. Louis Community College System (SLCCS) and the East St. Louis Community College (ESLCC), I am delighted. Thank you President Obama

Free College

Free college education is needed if we are to get out of this Depression and have a fairer society. Many people are in poverty earning miserable minimum wages and although they want to study further, they simply cannot because costs are out of their reach. If European countries can provide free college education to their people, why not the United States? That would be a sure way for someone to go from working poor to middle class.

Obama's Plan for Community Colleges

Barack Obama has big plans for community colleges, to the tune of $12 billion, on the assumption that community colleges are the key to providing people with the high-tech skills needed to get the jobs of the future. There's an interesting piece on the details of his program at:

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/July/Understanding-Obama-s-Community-College-Makeover.html

FYI: Louisiana has decided to implement a separate career track for people who don't want to attend four-year colleges. Community colleges could be just thing they need to get employable skills without attending getting an undergraduate degree.