From Inside Higher Ed:What about the community college students?
Newspapers nationwide are full of uplifting stories about students who fled New Orleans and have been enrolled by colleges all over the country.
Cornell University has registered 165 Tulane University students and found housing for most of them. The University of California at Berkeley is accepting as many as 50 undergraduates from New Orleans colleges. Camden County College has just enrolled a freshman from Tulane and a sophomore from Xavier University. Among other efforts to help these students, the U.S. House of Representives on Wednesday passed a bill to ease some student aid rules for those whose colleges were closed, and another bill was introduced in the House to do even more.
As laudable as these efforts are — and they clearly are helping thousands of students — some worry that another group of students may be particularly vulnerable and unable to benefit from the generous offers from colleges all over the country. These are students at community colleges. Some 20,000 of them have been displaced from their colleges and unlike many students at four-year colleges in New Orleans, many of these students do not have families or financial resources elsewhere. They literally cannot get to colleges that are offering aid, many of which are focusing on students from their regions.
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