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Do Community Colleges Help Salvage Late-Bloomers?

Should the community college door be open to students who have been unsuccessful in four-year colleges? What hope is there for the young man or woman who drops (or gets pushed) out of college? Is a second chance possible? If so, does the second time around make a difference? These questions were tackled in a research program in North Carolina which asked: does the community college help students who encountered academic difficulty in twoor four-year colleges? Specifically, the study was designed to determine whether people in academic trouble could later earn a bachelor's degree by taking a detour through a community college for a term, a year, or sometimes longer. At the risk of having a finger pointed at community colleges, who are already accused of trying to do all (or too many) educational things for all people, one could conclude from this research that there is a good case for yet another function of community collegesa concept called "recovery." In this article "recovery" is a term used to describe a student who is unsuccessful after going directly from a high school to a four-year college, then transfers to a community college and completes at least one term in the transfer program, then subsequently transfers back to a four-year college, where he is successful in obtaining a bachelor's degree or is in active pursuit of