Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dcc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!dcc1!unixcorn From: unixcorn@dcc1.UUCP (math.c) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: "Free" Education (quit knocking community colleges!) Message-ID: <147@dcc1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 22:39:17 EDT Article-I.D.: dcc1.147 Posted: Wed Jul 10 22:39:17 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 09:16:36 EDT References: <15518@watmath.UUCP> <784@ihlpg.UUCP> Reply-To: unixcorn@dcc1.UUCP (math.c) Organization: DeKalb Community College, Clarkston GA Lines: 42 Summary: In article <784@ihlpg.UUCP> jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) writes: >recieved a scholarship from Bell Labs to MIT. How about the hundreds >of other (equally able) entering freshman who are mortgaging their souls >in order to go there? ... >SAT's in the same range as mine who are attending the nearest state university >(or, gag, community college) simply because they CANNOT afford anything else. > As graduate of a community college and as a current instructor at one I must speak out for the community college idea. I won't attempt to take a position that says all community colls are great (no group can make such a claim) but I received a quality education dirt cheap at DeAnza Comm. Col in Cupertino Ca. In 1970 we had an IBM 360 (later 370) to learn on, criminally short turn around time ( < 1 hour ), instructors who were state of the art (silicon valley!) and a responsive administration. At San Jose' State (where I got my BS and MS) we had pretty poor hardware, old-style teachers of Comp Sci and a lot weaker curriculum than at DeAnza. At my current school (DeKalb Com Col) you will find a lot of well qualified, up to date INSTRUCTORS who do the teaching instead of having the grad students do it. (I was a TA, and a good one but I could not do the job as well then as I can now. Experience makes a difference. (Not Ed. courses, who knows what they do)) We were one of the first schools to run UNIX on a VAX for our students. We also teach the same curriculum that Georgia Tech does( at least in Comp Sci and Engineering) Check out the local (often dispised) com cols. You don't always have to go to a big school to get a quality education. -- unixcorn (alias m. gould) "there's a unicorn in the garden and he's eating a lily" gatech!dcc1!unixcorn