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Community Colleges

Florida Higher Ed System Confronting Multiple Challenges

Newly appointed Florida higher education leader tackles difficult tasks, including conversion of community colleges into four-year colleges and helping defuse governance crisis on public university tuition rates.

Obama Community College Proposal May Not Be Enough

President Barack Obama wants to invest some $12 billion in community colleges with the aim of seeing an additional 5 million students graduate by 2020.

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Census: ‘Brain Gains’ for High-Tech Cities

Passing up industrial centers and former hotspots in the Southwest, college graduates are fueling population growth in urban, high-tech meccas, such as Charlotte, N.C. and Austin, Texas.

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WASHINGTON UPDATE: Two-year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge

Two-year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge Rising rate causing some community colleges to opt out of student loan system.

Two-Year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge

Rising rate causing some community colleges to opt out of student loan system.

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College Tuition is Up Sharply Amid Recession

With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase.

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Stalled Pursuit of Higher Learning

Undocumented students across the country have been hampered in their quests for higher learning by the dismal economy and restrictive state legislation targeted at immigrants.

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SPECTRUM: FOUND IN TRANSLATION

From his small office near the Charles River, Dr. Fallou Ngom can envision the rewriting of much of African history, including the slave trade.

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DIVERSE BOOKSHELF : FALLING BEHIND

No sooner had the ink dried and the Sept. 9 news embargo on this book passed than it became one of the most widely reviewed and analyzed academic studies released in a long time.

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DERAILED : ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND RESTRICTIVE STATE LEGISLATION STALL UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS

As a founder of the University Leadership Initiative, an advocacy group for undocumented students in Texas, Julieta Garibay sorts through the numerous e-mails her organization receives daily.

REINVENTING REMEDIAL EDUCATION

When Kafayat Olayinka graduated from Spingarn High School in Washington, D. C., with a 3.5 grade point average, she was certain those kinds of grades would help her zip right through her college years.

Leadership & Policy

Convention Panel Encourages Gay Chancellors, Presidents to Remain Open About Their Sexual Orientation

Since age 26, Dr. David Wain Coon has been open personally and professionally about his sexual orientation. “I wanted my students to have the role model I didn’t have when I went through my education.”

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