Rural high schoolers earn college credit, gain postgrad skills
A community college in Montana is putting a new spin on dual enrollment by providing free one-credit course offerings to local high school students, with content aimed at preparing them for life after graduation. Miles Community College is a small, rural institution located about a mile off Interstate 94 in eastern Montana. It’s the only college in a 70-mile radius, enrolling around 500 students each term, around 43 percent of them dual-enrollment high schoolers. Most high school students in this rural community don’t think they need college, explains President Ron Slinger, because their...
Source: insidehighered.com