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Community Colleges: Page 197
Students
Report: HSIs Key to Spurring Latino Movement Through STEM Pipeline
A Center for Urban Education (CUE) report argues that reversing the historic underfunding of Hispanic-serving institutions (HSI) will increase the number of Latino students going into the science and technology fields.
Leadership & Policy
Community Colleges Appreciate Attention, Need Money
Grappling with soaring enrollment and plummeting state support, community colleges are grateful for attention from the Obama administration but disappointed money has yet to materialize to help them keep up with demand, let alone meet ambitious goals to make the U.S. the global leader in college graduates again by 2020.
Students
Report: For-Profit Schools Better Value for Low-Income Students Than Two-Year Publics
Researchers commissioned by a leading career college company released a report Thursday claiming that private-sector institutions increase access and student success among first-generation, low-income, and non-traditional students better than two-year public colleges.
Students
Obama Signs Law Sealing Health Care, Student Loan Reforms
Finalizing two major pieces of his agenda, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sealed his health care overhaul and made the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out of the process.
Community Colleges
Adult Learners Key To U.S. Reclaiming College Completion Lead, Education Dept. Official Says
President Barack Obama’s goal to increase the number of two- or four-year degree holding Americans by 2020 will require significant investments in educating nontraditional-aged college students, a U.S. Education Department assistant secretary told TRIO program administrators Wednesday at the Council for Opportunity in Education’s annual seminar with Education Department officials.
Students
Student Loan Reform Changes Necessary To Avert Pell Grant Crisis, Advocates Say
House approval of a student loan reform plan will help alleviate a potential crisis in the Pell Grant program as growing numbers of low-income students seek to access the program during this recession, higher education advocates say.
Community Colleges
Board Votes to Allow Undocumented Immigrants Access to N.C. Community Colleges
North Carolina’s community college board has approved allowing illegal immigrants to enroll next year, a move that could drop a contentious issue in the lap of state lawmakers in an election year.
Latinx
Amid Bitter Health Care Debate, House Clears Student Loan Changes
After months of delays as education took a back seat to the health care debate, the House of Representatives Sunday night approved a mammoth bill that ties both issues together in a package that includes more support for Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions.
African-American
HBCU Leaders Consider Partnerships Key to Remaining Competitive in Online Era
Creating partnerships to link students across campuses and offering online academic programs to students were two of the solutions presidents of some of the country’s historically Black colleges and universities say will help keep their institution competitive as more options for higher education emerge.
Students
Forum: Reformers Urged To Continue Advocacy for Student Aid Overhaul
National advocates for simplifying the federal student aid program urged colleagues gathered at a College Board policy forum Thursday in Washington to prepare for a long-term campaign for change.
African-American
Black College Leaders Briefed on Historic Health Care, Education Legislation
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other congressional leaders addressed representatives from the nation’s Black colleges and universities just hours before Democratic leaders released a bill that combined highly sought education funding and student loan reform with historic legislation that aims to revamp U.S. health care.
Students
Community College Summit Centers on Student Aid
At their annual legislative summit last week, community college trustees and administrators from around the country attended briefings on Capitol Hill and met with members of Congress to lobby on behalf of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA).
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