CRAWFORD: Universities should raise standards, move remediation to community colleges

BILL CRAWFORD: Move remediation to community colleges, hybrid universities

Universities should raise admission standards and, for the most part, exit the remediation business. Community colleges are best suited for this role with lower costs for both state and student, plus they provide more pathways to completion for academically challenged and disinterested students.

Two things – sports and historically black universities – would seem to make this politically impossible. Many talented athletes require remediation and our historically black universities enroll high proportions of under-prepared students.

Daily Journal
2/12/17