It's interesting to note that among the nine Florida community colleges which joined a pilot program to create a new state college system in which two-year institutions becomes ones granting four-year degrees, every school had dropped the word "community" from its name.
These are the same colleges created to offer open access to their communities with the promise of university admission to any student who earned a two-year associate's degree, but that is no longer reflected in their identities.
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