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Community College Enrollment Increases LANSING, MI (Michigan Radio) - Historic numbers of students are enrolling in community colleges in Michigan and colleges are scrambling to deal with the boom.

Mike Hansen is the President of the Michigan Community College Association.

He says there are 275,000 community college students in Michigan, up about ten percent from fall enrollment. Hansen says as class-sizes grow, capacity becomes a concern.

"In other words there really isn't the classroom space," he says. "There's classrooms being taught on weekends and midnight, Henry Ford Community College for example is parking at the mall and they bus the students in. There's no parking anymore at Washtenaw."


Hansen says ultimately the enrollment increase is a good thing. He says it reflects Michigan's transition from a manufacturing-based economy to a knowledge-based economy.
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