"Given the difficulties of the recession, the state of community college systems could be better, but it also could be a lot worse, an annual survey of state directors of community college systems finds," Inside Higher Ed reports. "The Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama released a report Thursday based on the responses from state community college officials in 48 states to an extensive set of questions about changes in state funding, the impact of federal stimulus dollars and plans for the future. (An explanatory presentation with more charts and graphs breaking down the data was also released.) Though many states have finally been giving community colleges their due, both in terms of public attention and -- sometimes -- funding, the report finds that this did not help many of them avoid cuts when times got tight last fiscal year."
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