Everyone knows that community colleges offer associate degrees and are a gateway to transfer to a four-year institution. We talk a lot about credit students and credit courses. But there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of adults in the United States who rely on community colleges’ noncredit or adult education programs. Programs like citizenship classes, adult high school diploma courses, short-term certificates, classes for adults with disabilities, and English as a Second Language courses. But, for some reason, we don’t talk a lot about those. In fact, most colleges I have worked with have neglected marketing these programs. Here in California, legislation even makes it difficult for noncredit programs to hire full-time, tenure-track faculty.
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