Community colleges play a key role in Obama’s ambitious plan to retrain unemployed workers and create an additional 5 million college-degree holders over the next decade, helping the American workforce regain its status as the best educated in the world. While older Americans have more college degrees than their counterparts in any other country, Americans age 25 to 34 rank 14th in the world in college-degree attainment. The proposal, now being debated in Congress, could usher in a heyday for community colleges—if two-year institutions don’t blow it by choosing this very moment to abandon their core strength. In recent years some community colleges have moved away from their roots as low-cost, open-access institutions and tried to compete in the big leagues by offering bachelor’s degrees.

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by Kevin Carey, Newsweek.

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