This is actually a better policy than anything to do with universities because CC does a good job of filtering people at a lower cost than if they had gone to a four year university to start that process.
I went to CC (to take core classes cheap and then transfer) for (basically, I think I paid for one course) free because of MEAP. Too bad when they designed that they never had a contingency for MEAP scores improving too much and more cash being sent out than budgeted for. (Which is why it no longer exists.)
I also think highly of CC programs that hire people who worked in the field to teach courses. For example for Business Law I had an actual practicing lawyer, for Criminal Justice it was a retired police officer (okay, lol in retrospect), for a Poli Sci course it was the former Clerk of the Michigan House, etc. They tend to be more enthusiastic and engaged in the topic they're teaching, even if their "teaching methods" aren't as refined and academically sound.
Of course, you also get some nutjobs like the woman who said she was a professional poet but had never published anything and cancelled 80% of classes because she was having a mental breakdown that semester and the school gave us a refund after looking into her further. Good times.
