Boggs wrote. He pointed to numerous well-known figures who got their careers started in community colleges: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; J. Craig Venter, mapper of the human genome; Eileen Collins, the first female space-shuttle commander for NASA; actor Nick Nolte; and Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan. (Boggs might have also mentioned the comedian Steve Martin, who got both his academic start as a college philosophy major and his theatrical start as an improv artist while attending the institution that is now Santa Ana Community College in California during the early 1960s.)
Is it time for the USA to offer free higher education?
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