Headline at The College Fix.
Community college enrollment outpaced university enrollment this school year.
Community colleges are the main place young people can go to learn a trade - electrician, welder, carpenter, electronics tech, nurse, etc. Also where one can do the first two years of a baccalaureate degree at much lower cost, as CC students often continue to live at home.
Trades are much prized because they are not easily replaced by AI or automation, cannot be sent overseas, and provide opportunities to become one’s own boss.
Don’t discount the “first two years of college” aspect either, I did this, then transferred to a state university, and it later proved no hinderance in admission to graduate degree programs (MS, PhD). Nor to employment as a professor.
