https://www.michiganradio.org/post/fewer-students-are-going-community-college-despite-high-unemployment

 

In this article the author talks about how hard community colleges and specially private universities are being affected due to the current pandemic we are going through and the economic problems we are facing are part of that as well, another point the author that pointed out is that usually around this time of high unemployment many students and adults are interested into joining college for them to learn skills and for them to get into the workforce but nowadays that ideology is not correct, which is very concerning due to the situation we are going through and the future of future of our country, because if this continues we won’t have enough specialize people that would meet our needs.

 

As I continued to go more in depth with the article a small section of the text caught my attention is when the author said, “Hardest hit were community colleges, which traditionally serve lower-income students and those seeking additional career skills. The enrollment drop comes as many of those schools face a host of new financial pressures.”. This small portion of the text caught my attention since I showed how even community colleges are having problems financially since there hasn’t been enough people sign up to their schools which makes it real problems because pretty much community colleges are funded through the students and local and federal funding and if the enrollment numbers keep decreasing some colleges may have to close due to financial problems due  to not enough students enrolling close closing opportunities to new students to access college.

 

I learned from this text is that currently with corona virus and the declining interest of people attending to college, many community college and even private universities many be in need to close, because they won’t have financial funding they need to operate, which apart from losing colleges we are making many students lose opportunities in the careers to specialized making them less interested in school since they are not able to pay for the college expenses  or they are not interested spending large amount of money in school and deciding to use that money to start a business, making less people attend to college and continuing the trend of less people graduating from college.