The Washington Post, June 10th, 1989
ONE OF THE moredisturbing side effects of the 1980s squeeze on education money has been to drive the top and bottom tiers of higher education farther apart. Four-year colleges have grown more selective and more expensive. Community colleges, once seen as the great promise for expanding access to higher education, have drifted from that role as they devote a higher and higher proportion of their energies to vocational and technical degree programs. Though as many as 40 percent of those who enter the two-year, open-admissions community colleges say they intend to transfer to four-year institutio...
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