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Two-Year Colleges Offer Advantages

Apparently, there is some sort of stigma attached to two-year colleges. That may come as news to thousands of Northern Panhandle and East Ohio residents. They see community or technical colleges as the wonderful opportunities they are.

This week, The Associated Press reported that an initiative called #EndCCStigma has been adopted nationally. It was the brainchild of Steve Robinson, president of Owens Community College in Perrysburg, Ohio.

“There really is a stigma against community colleges,” Robinson told the AP. “It’s just ignorance,” he added.

Indeed it is. On both sides of the Ohio River, community colleges are saving students — both new high school graduates and older adults — tons of money. Most can live at home while obtaining degrees or certificates that enable them to pursue good-paying careers or, if they choose, go on to receive four-year degrees from other institutions.

It is crazy, frankly, to view two-year colleges as second-class institutions. Just ask the many local men and women who have benefited from them, sometimes using their educations to earn paychecks that would be the envy of some graduates of four-year colleges.

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