Small innovations help community college students | Opinion
Posted May 10, 2021
I’m always impressed by innovation. By innovation, I don’t always mean the type of technological innovation that we see with devices and platforms, but relatively small changes in programs and bureaucracies that lead to greater opportunities for people to succeed.
The Cumberland County campus of Rowan College of South Jersey has gotten creative with payment plans. I’m also thinking about approaches taken by Valencia College in Orlando, Florida.
It is fair to ask what a community college in Florida has to do with one in South Jersey. The answer is, probably not much, but the problems they face are fairly common and well known, so that new solutions implemented at one community college might be worth a try at another. At least that was my reaction after listening to a story on NPR radio’s “Morning Edition” by Elissa Nadworny on how Valencia College was handling the gut punch known as COVID-