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professional faculty even in general education and disciplinary core
courses. The cost to create these digitized lectures should be offset by
lower faculty costs.
3. High-tech learning materials are appropriate for large classes with
relatively stable content, which includes general education and disci-
plinary core courses, and can lead to lower costs.
4. It is essential to continuously improve these tools because technol-
ogy changes and innovative thinking provide new insight on how to
deliver knowledge better and at a lower cost.

B.1.8 Chapter 14: Revamping Relationships
among High Schools, Community and
Technical Colleges, and Universities
1. When students are preparing for a degree in higher education, they
should take as many rigorous high school courses as possible.
2. States should work with their high schools, public community and
technical colleges, and public universities to create meaningful col-
lege preparatory and vocational tracks and ensure that these entities
provide the best education at the lowest cost. This includes the use of
the HEC to coordinate course offerings and eliminate redundancy
and gaps.
3. Universities would be prohibited from offering remedial/high
school–level courses. Students who are missing courses would go to
their state-supported website to complete them.
4. Students using community and technical colleges to lower the costs
of higher education should make sure that their coursework trans-
fers to universities and meets graduation requirements.
5. It is vital to standardize college preparatory classes offered in high
schools with similar offerings in public two-year colleges and four-
year universities so students do not waste time or money.
6. Beyond these courses, community and technical colleges and univer-
sities should identify common courses and agree on content and per-
formance standards—even common learning materials. This would
simplify transferring to universities and reduce the risk of having
courses taken at a community and technical college not counting
toward a four-year degree.