Dear Editor,The headline story that ran in the Sept. 8, issue of the Tribune titled “College responds to WalletHub survey” did not paint a clear picture. The WalletHub article would only be relevant and useful if all community colleges shared the same mission with the same programs, geographic area and demographics of the local populace, etc. The list and article is highly irrelevant and only stands to unnecessarily harm one of our community’s most valuable assets, Barton Community College. According to the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCSSE), which issues the survey that WalletHub.com manipulated to rank 670 community colleges, “The article includes multiple errors of fact and misuses of survey data... A larger issue is that the reporter uses CCSSE benchmark data from different years as if the data were equivalent and directly comparable.
Barton vs Cohort