Dive Brief:
- A community college instructor writes that he had prepared himself to teach a classroom of older, non-traditional students, but the reality is that almost all of his students were just out of high school.
- One of the schools where he teaches has seen a 30% increase in enrollments for students under 24 in the last 10 years; such students now make up the majority of the school.
- Research backs up this observation: Between 1995 and 2009, students 18 to 24 went from 47% to 54% of community college classes.
Dive Insight:
Not only are college-aged students showing up more in community college classrooms — high-school aged students are too. In 1993, students under 18 were 1.6% of community college students. By 2009, it was 7%.