Private colleges target community college grads they once shunned
In The News Piece in The Hechinger Report
May 27, 2015
We have a long way to go,” said Iris Palmer, a senior policy analyst at the think tank the New America Foundation. “Of course, we always wish that things like this had happened earlier,” Palmer said of efforts by the private colleges to lure community college grads. “But institutions respond to the incentives they’re presented with. So if the current set of incentives is what’s driving them to help these students get degrees, well, at least they’re doing it.”