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Home > Blogs > On Campus > Archives > 2008 > December > 10 > Entry

Is a bad economy good for community colleges?

By Kelly Mori | Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 07:40 AM

It looks like community colleges are experiencing increasing enrollment due to decreasing employment.

I talked to Clark State Community College about this Tuesday and an official there said that community colleges traditionally see enrollment upswings when the economy nose dives.

That’s because newly laid off workers are reevaluating their resumes and deciding to upgrade their current skills or acquire some new ones all together.

I would think this would be good news for Clark State’s bottom line, as well as for those of other community colleges.

I do wonder if these students are having trouble acquiring funding - loans - for these courses since we’ve heard so much about the stingy student loan market.

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