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Article: Community colleges: credit where it is due ; In lean times, many are finding public education a very good deal
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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A s classes changed one recent weekday morning at Massasoit
Community College in Brockton, the line of cars leaving the campus
stretched more than a mile back from the lights on Route 27.
As other students arrived, campus parking lots overflowed and
classrooms filled to capacity. Almost two years into a national
recession, this low-tuition, two-year state institution is a very
busy place.
"I looked into other schools, but for classes I can take
anywhere, Massasoit is a lot more affordable," Chelsea Gardner, 22,
said as she waited between classes at the student union. A Long
Island native who took a few years off after high school, Gardner
commutes daily from Boston to the campus on ...