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Lower Maryland College Tuition Sought for Undocumented Immigrant Children

To be eligible, students must attend two years of high school in Maryland, and their parents pay one year of income taxes before the student graduates from a Maryland high school.

Community Colleges

Civil Right Groups Urge Congress to Protect ‘Gainful Employment’ Rule

Citing the need to protect students of color, civil rights organizations Wednesday urged Congress to reject a House Republican plan that would prevent the Obama administration from issuing new rules on the operation of for-profit career colleges.

Community Colleges

Lawmakers Target Obama Plan on For-Profit Colleges

A pair of Washington lawmakers say they will seek to limit federal Education Department spending on an Obama administration Biographies Plus Newsplan designed to better track students’ academic performance at for-profit colleges.

Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa

Study: California State Northridge Students Hit Hard by Recession

The report, “Squeezed From All Sides,” blames California’s recession and education cuts for pushing students to the breaking point, with some reporting they must forgo college.

Patricia Gandara

Community Colleges

Regaining the Edge in American Higher Education

Can American higher education regain its edge? A group of advocates, policymakers and scholars attempted to answer this question Tuesday during a Washington think tank policy forum.

Diane Auer Jones

Obama Budget Protects Pell Grants, Sets Education Priorities

President Obama presented a 2012 budget that has limited increases for education but a commitment to protect the current $5,550 maximum Pell Grant, which is the subject of potential cuts on Capitol Hill.

Achieve Report Shows States Embracing College and Career Readiness Standards

Six years after coining the term “expectation gap,” a nonprofit group’s study proves that states are paying attention.

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Community Colleges

Catching Up With Walter Bumphus

Dr. Walter Bumphus sits down with Diverse to discuss his plans as head of the AACC.

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Leadership & Policy

Maryland Lawsuit Targets Undocumented Students’ Local Tuition Break

A Maryland community college is facing a lawsuit over its policy to provide low “in-county” tuition rates to any recent graduate of a local high school regardless of immigration status.

Community Colleges

Report: Americans Overemphasize College as Key to Upward Mobility

A report released today by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education says the United States’ increasing emphasis on a single pathway to success is at least partly to blame for the country falling behind other nations.

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Federal Postsecondary Education Leader Urges Unity on College Completion Message

The many constituencies comprising U.S. higher education should come together to “speak with one voice” to the rest of this country, says Dr. Eduardo Ochoa, assistant secretary for postsecondary education.

Lezli Baskerville

Community Colleges

Federal Agencies Announce Community College Grant Program

In what is said to be one of the largest federal investments in community colleges ever, the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Education Department announced a long-awaited $2 billion competitive grant program Thursday meant to support programs that help students and “trade impacted” workers secure jobs in new and growing industries.

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