Trends and Issues in Extension

Any interesting article in today’s Toledo Blade discussing on ongoing debate about respect for community colleges. What I find interesting about the article is the growth student numbers at the community colleges, and the discussion of who community colleges are reaching. More fire to the discussion that community colleges are serving the traditional land grant role of providing a means for middle class or non-traditional students to enter higher education.

To me the debate is not whether the community colleges have a role….but how do Extension and Land Grant institutions work with them as partners. Any discussion of preparing our communities for the Knowledge Economy are moot at this point otherwise.