Free community college is straining schools as enrollment balloons, professor says

Date:

January 6, 2025

Loud and overcrowded classrooms are just some of the big problems Massachusetts community college professors say they dealt with this past semester with free community college now available in the state.

“We are overcapacity. We have so many students and very few faculty and staff to support those students,” Lisa Heller Boragine, a professor at Cape Cod Community College and a member of the Massachusetts Community College Council said.

Heller Boragine said enrollment even just at Cape Cod Community College grew by several thousand students this past semester.

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