Yesterday i wrote a post about Obama's new program that was proposed yesterday called " Skills for America's Future," which i just wanted to clear up. This program is just a small program that is a part of Obama's effort to reshape community colleges to meet the changing needs of the American economy. His "Skills for America's Future" program is for Big Businesses to train people about the job, but also teach them skills in being interviewed, resume writing, and job shadowing. These jobs were not just to get a person to learn about that company but to get familiar with working and to learn business skills while here.
Today, Obama announced, during the White House Summit on Community Colleges, the creation of two new competitive grants for community colleges. The two grants are: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $35 million "completion by Design" program, which will target schools in nine states over five years and the annual Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, which will award $1 million to exemplary community colleges beginning next fall. Obama desires to graduate an additional 5 million community college students by 2020. Obama said today "In the coming years, jobs requiring at least an associate's degree are going to grow twice as fast as jobs that don't require college." Also adding, "We will not fill those jobs - or keep those jobs on our shores - without community colleges," and "two-year schools can help raise the percentage of young people earning college degrees." Which means he is trying to give more opportunities to students that are unable to pay for those pricey colleges because they are still trying to better their education, they just can't go to a top school.
These Programs, that were announced today, are generously donating their money to community colleges in-order to help improve graduation rates as well job-training programs. They want to help those "nontraditional" students, those students have become the norm according to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. These grant programs really have the students concerns in mind. They want to get those students as much help as possible since now a days we see more students going to community colleges or two-years schools due to the extreme prices. They know if those students get a higher education they will find those jobs since unemployment is only 5% for people with college degrees unlike the higher unemployment rate for people with as high as high school degree.
I feel these new programs that Obama is proposing gives more hope to those students who fear to go to college or maybe even community college because of the price and risk of not getting a job. However, students don't need to worry when they are putting more support, such as more money being given to colleges or partnerships of colleges with businesses.
Do these two new programs give you more hope for a brighter future?
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i feel that these new programs will give hope to a better future to those who want to get an education but cannot becaause of cost or lack of time. these new programs seem like it will help by paying for collages and making to people who don't have chance to be able to get a chance to move up in their skills by getting a collage education because in the times today, it is nearly impossible for a person to support themselves with only a high school diploma, especially in the bay area with such high cost and high taxes, with out a collage aplication it would nearly be impossible for people to move up in the ladder of society.
- Vernon Wong
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