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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]    I covered higher education for a daily newspaper for decades. Elite and even average universities consider "intro" courses a cash cow that requires very little effort on their part. Faculty are evaluated for tenure based on publishing and research grants. They have little or no interest in teaching undergraduates. 
    [b]Community colleges, on the other hand, evaluate faculty solely on the basis of their instructional skills[/b]. You would be amazed at the skills and dedication of many faculty and adjuncts teaching at community colleges. Classes are relatively small in comparison to those at four year colleges, where freshman and sophomores are often packed into lecture halls with hundreds of others, taught by adjuncts or graduate students.
    No one will care where your child gets his first couple years of college education, only where the diploma comes from. Even that means precious little after the first couple years in the workplace (really!). Lots of sophomores at good schools burn out, leaving openings and scholarships available for transfer students. Having said this, it IS harder for CC college students to stick with the program and succeed in their courses as they aren't living in an atmosphere surrounded by other students. Nevertheless, it's  a really good option for many people and is often overlooked by upwardly mobile families.

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Weird post, OP.  No they don't.  community colleges hire the cheapest they can find.  Adjuncts.  Mostly at $1500 a course.  Our experience at a community college was abysmal. The teacher was teaching the same course in 3 difference community college locations (same system) and clearly was just phoning it in.[/quote]

Using adjuncts isn't limited to community colleges.  More and more classes at most universities are taught by non-tenure track faculty.  [/quote]

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