{"id":2004,"date":"2018-04-16T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2018-04-15T18:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T22:31:24","slug":"community-colleges-report-serving-more-middle-class-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/04\/16\/community-colleges-report-serving-more-middle-class-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Colleges Report Serving More Middle-Class Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2005\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2005\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/communitycollege.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/communitycollege.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/communitycollege-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As college costs continue to increase, community colleges are seeing a rise in the number of upper-middle class students enrolling to save money on their way to a four-year degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about social norms,\u201d Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University (PA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/05\/education\/learning\/community-colleges-middle-class-families.html?smid=tw-share\">told <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cMore middle-class parents are saying, I\u2019m not succumbing to the idea that the only acceptable education is an expensive one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, Pasadena City College. According to the <em>Times<\/em>, the school has seen a 320 percent increase in students who come families whose annual income exceeds $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>This trend is expected to continue, especially as more cities and states adopt <a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/california-to-make-first-year-of-community-college-free\/\">free community college programs<\/a> like the one in California.<\/p>\n<p>Though there are obvious benefits to starting at a community college, students should make sure they have a clear plan of attack if they want to transfer to a four-year institution. Students will want to make sure all course credits will transfer with them.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/05\/education\/learning\/community-colleges-middle-class-families.html?smid=tw-share\">full article here<\/a> and see more resources for transfer students in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/knowledge-center\/transfer\/\">NACAC\u2019s Knowledge Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\"><em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As college costs continue to increase, community colleges are seeing a rise in the number of upper-middle class students enrolling to save money on their way to a four-year degree. \u201cThis is about social norms,\u201d Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University (PA), told The New York Times. \u201cMore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/04\/16\/community-colleges-report-serving-more-middle-class-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Community Colleges Report Serving More Middle-Class Students<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transfer"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-wk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}