Midnight Classes? Need for Online Ed Grows

It seems that the rise in community college enrollment is forcing some schools to make some radical decisions.

Community colleges are being overwhelmed by an influx of new students, my colleague, Abby Goodnough, reports in an article in The Times today. As a result, some community colleges, like Bunker Hill in Boston, are offering classes at midnight.

Ms. Goodnough points out that many of the new students are recent high school graduates who could not attend more expensive four-year colleges, as well as “the jobless and others whom the recession has nudged back to school.”

Winston Chin is one of the students taking a writing class at Bunker Hill that runs from 11:45 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.

You can find the full article here.