Appealing to an Older Demographic

By Matt Reed. Community colleges are swimming upstream in American culture in several ways. They’re open-admissions, in a culture based on increasing polarization and exclusivity. They’re built to create a middle class for a country that’s pulling its middle class apart. And they’re markedly diverse in a society in which birds of a feather increasingly flock together; in many places, they’re the only major institution in which people from different classes interact, other than malls. And malls are dying. Read more...