You may have scoffed at community colleges in the past, but these days you better watch your back. The posse enrolling into community colleges these last two semesters has been enormous. So much so that Wayne County Community College actually had to close enrollment ... which for someone enrolling late is bad, but for the college it is historic.
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Historic numbers of students are
enrolling in community colleges in Michigan and colleges are scrambling
to deal with the boom.
Mike Hansen is the President of the Michigan Community College Association.
He
says there are 275,000 community college students in Michigan, up about
ten percent from fall enrollment. Hansen says as class-sizes grow,
capacity becomes a concern.
"In other words there really isn't
the classroom space," he says. "There's classrooms being taught on
weekends and midnight. Henry Ford Community College for example is
parking at the mall and they bus the students in. There's no parking
anymore at Washtenaw."
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