Changeedu Rebooting For The New Talent Economy – Andrew S Rosen

Simply put, its funding model is broken. That’s forcing Miami Dade to exclude many of the students it’s meant to be serving. For a literal look at this phenomenon, you’d need to gain access to the college’s IT department at midnight on the day in late June when the school’s online registration system allows students to begin registering for fall classes. At precisely 12:01 am, torrents of students log in to try to register for classes the moment the reg¬ istration system opens, knowing there are far too many students clambering for too few seats in classes.

It’s become common for the rush of students to overload the technology, leading to a crash of the computer registration system. The problem is one any Econ 101 student can understand: supply and demand. Enrollment at Miami Dade, as at most community colleges, has soared in recent years, while its pri¬ mary source of funding, taxpayer dollars, has shrunk.

To cope with the funding shortage, in 2008, Miami Dade reduced the number of course sections it offered by some twelve hundred. In 2009, according to the Miami Herald, the school laid off em¬ ployees and cut academic programs, including courses in hospi¬ tality and oceanographic engineering.28 For students, the result is that getting a seat in a class at Miami Dade has become a bit like musical chairs, a reality that its president acknowledges is a big problem.

“This year we have about thirty thousand students who couldn’t take all the classes they needed,” Padron says. “We had over five thousand who could not take the remedial classes they needed. In my opinion, that’s the worst thing that can happen to a community. Every time we fail to admit one student, what options do they have? They don’t have the resources to pay for another college.

[Many of them] can’t get admitted to another college. They don’t have the money to go out of town [to study The (Theoretically) Perfect Solution 93 at a distant institution]. It’s a waste of human talent and causes tremendous potential for social unrest. The funding problems, common to community colleges across the nation, are a function of the colleges’ financial model.

Ac¬ cording to the American Association of Community Colleges, public community colleges receive 38 percent of their revenue from state appropriations. Another 17 percent comes from local appropriations. Five percent comes from federal grants and con¬ tracts. Those tax subsidies, which make up well over half of the colleges’ revenue, are the key reason community colleges are able to keep tuition so low: tuition and fees account for just 20 percent of the money coming in.29 When you talk to community college officials about the fund¬ ing problems, they reiterate the “forgotten stepchild’’ status that Obama referred to in his speech at Macomb.

They complain about how little per-student funding they receive when com¬ pared with K-12 and four-year university education.

“The next twenty-five years offer an opportunity to transform the way students have learned for centuries. We will be able to deliver education to students where they are, based on their specific needs, desires, and backgrounds.” -ANDREW S. ROSEN Imagine a university where programs are tailored to the needs of each student, the best professors are available to everyone, curriculum is relevant to the workplace, and the value of the education is demonstrable.

In Change.edu, Andrew S. Rosen shows how that future is possible but at the same time is in danger of being stifled by a system of incentives that emphasize prestige and tradition, rather than access and outcomes. The U.S. higher education system has historically been considered one of the best in the world. This thought-provoking story presents the imperative for transforming that system for the 2ist century and beyond. Rosen takes on the sacred cows of traditional higher education models and calls on the country to demand the changes needed to build a qualified workforce and compete in a global economy.

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