Right now community college is geared toward the core classes. Many of those will still need to remain, but if you can focus it more toward life classes I think community college could turn very valuable. There are certain things everybody should know before going into the corporate world, or at least that would be good to know. I’m talking things like personal finance, public speaking, writing and grammar, interpersonal communication, things like that.

Focus on advanced subjects in those areas in community college where you understand that they are going for just two years to prepare themselves for any job, not a specific job. It should be fairly easy for educators to identify the types of classes that would be beneficial to this population.

We can still have other classes that are the building blocks where students will take those on their way to a four-year degree at a college or university. But for someone just looking for an associates degree, in my opinion that should just focus on life skills necessary for the working man or woman.