The faculty tries very hard not to assign books that the students won't need or find useful in their careers. It really hits people in the technical fields, like nursing students. But the texts that they buy become part of their permanent reference library.

It's helping students learn what's required to be successful in human services careers.

It's not just in terms of personal needs, it's also for businesses subject to prying acts. It's bound to be a growth field.

In this economy, people need to constantly re-educate. It's not unusual for a community college to serve as a graduate school for the English major who suddenly find himself in business and had better brush up on accounting quick ... I hope they encourage people to go to (college).

While this news is extremely disappointing to all of us, our students can continue their academic careers uninterrupted thanks to an avalanche of support from our colleagues in higher education,

It will be a feeder program that will get high school students excited about careers in our industry.