By Patricia Alex, Staff Record, The Record.
A state commission looking at the issue of college affordability is likely to recommend that high school seniors graduate with at least a semester of community college credits, the panel’s chairman said Wednesday.
The students could continue on at community college before heading off to a four-year school – a strategy that could reduce the cost of a baccalaureate degree from a state college by more than half to around $20,000, said Fred Keating, the chairman of the commission and president of Rowan College at Gloucester.
The College Affordability Study Commission has been meeting and holding hearings for more than a year in an effort to devise a strategy in the state, whose tuition costs at public institutions are among the highest in the nation. Keating’s comments came following a public hearing in Trenton.
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