Community: NBC’s New Show No Laughing Matter
NBC recently announced its Fall line-up includes a show titled “Community.” As NBC execs. describe it, the comedy is about a group of quirky “losers” at fictional Greendale Community College. The four minute promo video will give you a good sense of just what “Community” is all about. It’s predictably silly, but there is some stinging truth to the description of the populations that one finds enrolled at the local community college.
NBC is touting the comedy as a “smart show about higher education.” Of course, there are ruffled feathers within Academe. The president of the American Association of Community Colleges was quoted as saying, “I would just hope that some day, people will feel like it’s unacceptable to make fun of community college students. Just because we don’t have the exclusive admission standards that Harvard has doesn’t mean that you should feel free to make fun of our students….”
Come on! Community college faculty make fun of their students all the time. Hell, all faculty love to tell those stories. You know the ones. The stories about students who cook up incredibly transparent and ridiculous excuses to get out of work, exams, study groups, etc….Stories about students
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I feel mad!! I meen I went to an comunitee collage and Im am a smart persan.
[...] corruption and downfall. He decided that I should stay home for at least the first year and go to community college. I mean I love the man, but can you believe it? He came up with all the normal arguments people [...]
Before leaving the teaching profession to become a freelance writer in the college textbook publishing field, I was an adjunct instructor at Butte College and Shasta College, two community colleges in northern California.
There was a stark difference in the quality of the students there compared to the ones in the courses I was a TA for during graduate school at UC Davis.
However, I had some incredibility bright and motivated community college students.
I hope the show is a success, even if it does make fun of community college students. It will draw attention to community colleges and the opportunities they offer.