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Article: Meet the new community college student.(Community Colleges)
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- Phi Kappa Phi Forum
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Like many Phi Kappa Phi members, when I think of my freshman year in college I recall an eighteen-year-old packed off to a public four-year college to spend a few carefree years studying, partying, and growing up. But this image of the typical student is out of date. Today, the typical student might be a twenty-eight-year-old bartender raising two children, a forty-year-old laid-off steel worker on unemployment compensation, or a sixteen-year-old high school sophomore who qualifies for advanced placement courses. The typical student might even be someone like my husband, who retired after twenty-nine years of truck-driving and began taking courses. What the members of this ...