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Just Four Years? How about Eight?

Byuclafaculty
Everyone wants more years!

From Inside Higher Ed today comes this story about changing the Master Plan:

Community colleges in a growing number of states are offering bachelor’s degrees. Now California and its huge two-year system may join that group. A committee created by Brice Harris, the system’s chancellor, quietly began meeting last month to mull whether the state’s 112 community colleges should be granted the authority to offer four-year degrees…

Full story at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/27/two-year-colleges-california-mull-bachelors-degrees


Four? Eight? Just more:
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