The most significant factor to a college is its gradation rate. Community colleges are exploring its options on ways to decrease its drop out and failing rates. In Revamping Community Colleges to Improve Graduation Rates, the author, Alina Tugend, wrote, "Studies show that the traditional way the country’s thousand-plus …show more content…
Each and every student that attends college have difference learning styles and working methods. With each student having an unique style, more instructors and counselors are vital, not for each student individually, but for those individual students who are seeking extra assistance. Tugent said, "A school like Columbia can have one adviser for one hundred students, he said, while “at most community colleges, the ratio is more like one for every thousand students(Tugent, par. 22)." Having a limitation on the amount of assistance a scholar can receive, whether its from an instructor, a counselor, or an adviser, can affect how a scholar makes his decisions. While instructors are faced with the dilemma of having too many students in one setting of a classroom, they also must deal with the issue of students not being able to finish their class all because the students simply cannot afford