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1. COMMUNITY COLLEGES:
A FUTURE FOR SUCCESS
By: Jennifer Yi

3. THESIS
STATEMENT
-More financial
funding for
community colleges
-End Result? Better
graduation rates,
career placement, and
academic
preparedness

4. Education’s
Hungry Hearts
By:
Mark Edmunson

5. ESSAY QUOTATION:
 “The implication here is that paying for college is like putting
money into a set of stocks or a mutual fund. It’s an investment . If
the money spent on college doesn’t result in an actual cash
advantage, then you’ve made a mistake. If you end up not
needing a college degree to pursue your professional life at all,
then school was more than a strategic mistake: it was a complete
waste. They saw you coming. You got yourself taken” (521).

8. BUDGET CUTS FOR CALIFORNIA
COMMUNITY COLLEGES
24% decline in per-student funding over the past five
years
Extensive study by the Public Policy Institute of
California
Large reductions in staff, few course offerings, and
restricted enrollment
Challenge to meet the goal of educating California’s
labor force

9. CCC COMPLETION RATES
ARE DOWN
Earning a two year degree and/or transfer
rates are down by 2.6 percent (2014)
“These results document the damage done by
years of rationing education in California," said
California Community Colleges Chancellor
Brice W. Harris.

10. CURRENT
PROGRESS
-Wrotefourandahalfpagesalready
-Willcontinuetofindmorecredibleand
excellentsources
-Focusoncommunitycollegeincomeand
racialinequality
-CCsneedmoremiddle-incomestudents

11.  CCs in serious jeopardy
without more funding
CCs=“peoples’ colleges”
Tremendous benefits to every
citizen
Offers important vocational
training
CONCLUSION