The local community college, facing year after year of tight budgets, is often in the business of turning students away, not welcoming them in. They have few marketing and recruiting efforts. There are far too few evening classes to meet the meets of working adults. Moreover, community colleges frequently come up short in offering the kind of program that many of these students are seeking--not Shakespeare, but hands-on training to be a nurse's aid or electrician. The whole system--high schools, public colleges, private industry--now fails to offer enough students, especially low-income students, a path to training for such careers. So the for-profit colleges have stepped into the breach.