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Community college enrollment falls as students grapple with job loss, online learning
The data contradicted predictions of some experts that community college enrollment would rise this fall due to Covid-19 motivating students to stay home. SACRAMENTO, Calif — David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit.
Lewis, 29, was already encountering scheduling conflicts between his classes and a new job at Trader Joe’s. As the assignments for his online classes started to pile up, he struggled to keep pace.
In March, he left school. It was a difficult choice because he’d returned to college just months before, determined to fulfill a promise he’d made to his mother before she passed away from cancer.
“I had always told her that I was going to go back to school and finish,” he said. “So I didn’t want to lie.” Lewis is one of thousands of California community college students who didn’t return to school this fall as the coronavirus pandemic upended their lives.
Enrollment at California community colleges is down more than 9% from the year before, mirroring a national trend, according to a recent survey from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC), which tracks enrollment […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif — David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit.
SACRAMENTO, Calif — David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit.
SACRAMENTO, Calif — David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit.
SACRAMENTO, Calif — David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit.
SACRAMENTO, Calif — David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit.
SACRAMENTO, Calif — David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit.
SACRAMENTO, Calif — David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit.
