The importance of two-year colleges
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Sherry Savrda [1]
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[1] Seminole State College of Florida
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- Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 62, Nº. 7, 2024, págs. 620-621
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Community colleges, or two-year colleges (TYCs), play a significant role in postsecondary education in the United States. However, finding information about community colleges is complicated by the way that the National Center for Education Statistics, through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), categorizes community colleges. Many community colleges, particularly in Florida, Washington, and Nevada, now offer limited four-year degrees, but are still categorized as community colleges in their states. Yet as soon as a college offers a four-year degree, IPEDS categorizes the school as a four-year college. This is true even if the primary mission of that school remains the preparation of transfer students and/or training for technical careers. It is estimated that this categorization scheme underestimates the number of students attending community colleges by 1.5–2 million students.1 Even so, the number of students attending community colleges is significant. According to the U.S. Department of Education, there are 1462 community colleges in the United States, 1047 of which are public institutions
