Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Last week featured a strange set of news stories crashing into each other, none of which got the coverage I thought they deserved. In my own state, the following three things happened last week. Marijuana was legalized for adult use The Muppet Show got “inappropriate content” warnings “Free community college” became law If you had told me 10 years ago that those three things would have happened in the same week, I would have laughed out loud. Yet, here we are. I’ll focus on the third one. Governor Murphy signed the Community College Opportunity Grant into law on Friday. It had already existed for a couple of years, but as a budget line item; now it’s a statute. That means that unless another statute gets passed to repeal it, we can count on it in future budgets. From a planning perspective, that’s a very big deal. The CCOG is a means-tested, last-dollar version of free community college. It applies to students taking be
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