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Just to let you know we received the usual flyer from a state School of Engineering with a new dean that my husband retired from a couple of years ago boasting about basically all that they were going to needing funds for to more or less:

1- Attract really highly sought after young faculty researchers.
2- Build and support new facilities for exciting new trends in research.
3- Provide opportunities for talented graduate students in research (mostly from foreign countries)
4- Provide opportunities for talented undergraduates basically in cutting edge research fields

No where is there any mention of hiring talented faculty members who are interested in teaching undergraduate students and providing them with the basic background and skills to be equipped to go to graduate school to take advantage of all these wonderful opportunities.  Look carefully at the colleges you select for your undergraduate in any field to be sure that the undergrads' tuition are not the funding stream for wonderful graduate student and research faculty packages.  One clear indication if this is true is to find out about the size of the classes all the way along - not just in the first year.  If years 3 and 4 still have 100+ in many classes, then there is something wrong.

My husband had some wonderfully prepared and very motivated transfers from the cc system while teaching.  Also another positive about a community college setting is that a teenager will have the opportunity to meet folks/learners of all ages and the maturity and experience of the older students can be a very positive factor.  Also, some course sequences can provide one with a very useful associate or certificate option in terms of the work world after college should jobs be tight.

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