The Chicago Tribune had an article about a recent trend in community colleges. I actually was just recently scouring the web for something about this trend to post and fortuitously, here it is.

Similar successes are reported nationally by community colleges, which aggressively recruit top-quality high school students. One of their biggest tools is the honors college, in which students are promised a more intimate, intense community college experience. There often is another big plus: free tuition.



The honors programs, which act much like a small college within the larger campus, help community colleges enroll students they might not have attracted a decade ago. In addition to Brown, a noteworthy example is Maureen Dunne, the first community college graduate in the country to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. After attending College of DuPage, Dunne went to the University of Chicago and is studying psychology at Oxford University in England.



The honors programs can be costly for colleges. And some faculty members worry that they smack of elitism and erode the traditional role of the community college as an open door for immigrants and the poor.

I've always thought that one of the greatest things about the United States is the fact that college education is available to so many people--and community colleges have been the backbone of that wealth of opportunity. I do worry that these sorts of honors programs are problematic if they draw funds away from community colleges' other purposes. There is nothing wrong with programs geared toward attracting brighter students, but I'm not sure that is the role that community colleges are meant to play. There are plenty of private universities that fill that niche.

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