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[cookderosa]

Sure. There's been much less of a trend for degree-ifying tech. courses here in Canada. Only in one or two provinces do Public Colleges commonly issue Associate degrees - and the private career colleges can't do that at all, AFAIK. Here in Ontario, it's mostly diplomas for CoCo courses - with a bachelor's degree path afterwards, if the grad wants to pursue it. Some of the private US career schools like Herzing operate here, but they can't confer degrees of any kind.

I believe we may be talking bachelor's degrees from US Community Colleges pretty soon. I believe California has enacted something (saw it in another forum - maybe DI) and others may have cards they're barely showing as yet.

Johann

Without looking it up, I think there are already CCs in FL (?) doing this. I think it's interesting that only 1 or 2 public colleges in Canada issue associate degrees.....I think that is a very interesting variable in this equation. What are your thoughts about how that plays out? I wonder if that raises the bar enough to drive up completion rates? *interesting note- I'm reading Gladwell's new book David and Goliath (highly suggest) and in Chapter 4 he talks about how completely converse situations end up propelling people into successful outcomes. That often making the goal harder raises the overall number of people who are successful. It's a counter-intuitive chapter that has me thinking about your associate degree comment a little differently. Hummm....