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African-American

University of Oregon Program Puts Teens on Course

Sunday marked the first day of 2011’s Oregon Young Scholars Program, a weeklong residential program for “historically underrepresented” high-school-age students from a targeted group of schools in the Portland and Eugene areas.

Community Colleges

Two Years After Obama’s College Graduation Initiative, Major Obstacles Remain

Only one in five of those who enroll in community colleges—and, in some states, barely one in 10—graduates in three years, while only about half of students who go to universities get their bachelor’s degrees within six.

Community Colleges

Louisiana Regents Expands Online Services for Adult Learners, Community College Students

Louisiana is expanding its efforts to ease the process for adults to return to college and for community college students to seamlessly transfer to universities.

Community Colleges

The Middle College School Comes to Maryland

The Academy of Health Sciences — located on the campus of Prince George’s Community College — is part of a network of schools established under the auspices of the Middle College National Consortium and is the first such academy to be established in Maryland.

Academy students

Community Colleges

Crossing the Border for College

Seeking higher education in the U.S., young Mexican students manage to escape the warfare of Mexico.

Paso del Norte International Bridge between Juarez, Mexico and the U.S.

Leadership & Policy

California College Students Brace for State Budget Cuts

California college students are bracing for higher tuition bills and fewer courses and campus services under a new state budget that once again slashes spending on higher education.

A Tribal College’s Bold Approach to Launching Public School Academies, Charter Schools

Established throughout Michigan by the Bay Mills Community College, public school academies preserve Native culture and language with commitment to increasing student achievement.

Report: College Enrollment Pool Increasingly Turning to Adult Learners

The Washington-based Center for Law and Social Policy, in its report “Not Just Kids Stuff Anymore: The Economic Imperative for More Adults to Complete College”, finds that the demand for college-educated workers is expected to rise 16 percent by 2018.

Leadership & Policy

Report: Merging N.C. Community Colleges Would Save Millions

North Carolina’s community colleges could save about $5 million a year by folding administration and back-office work at the smallest campuses into larger neighbors, a legislative efficiency report released Tuesday said.

Obama Administration Officials Take High Profile at Senate Hearing on DREAM Act

A congressional hearing on Tuesday breathed new life into the decade-old and oft-thwarted effort to pass the proposed federal DREAM Act, but Democratic leaders concede there is no clear path to enactment and that one of the main obstacles is lack of Republican support.

Janet Napolitano

Community Colleges

With Focus on College Readiness, Panel Seeks Better Middle School Outcomes in the South

As educators prepare students to compete in a world where technology changes with blinding speed, they should focus more on young teens who too often fall behind in reading, math and science, a Southern education group said Monday.

North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue

Book Reviews: A Tapestry of Challenges

New books examine new hurdles for educators and students in a diverse climate.

Degrees of Inequality

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