Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.

Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Community Colleges: Page 206

Community Colleges

A $4 Billion Push for Better Schools

President Barack Obama is leaning hard on the nation’s schools, using the promise of more than $4 billion in federal aid — and the threat of withholding it — to strong-arm the education establishment to accept more charter schools and performance pay for teachers, according to The Washington Post. Today, Obama will officially announce the […]

GRANTS & AWARDS

AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Texas) has received a $35,305 grant from the Texas Workforce Commission for 68 scholarships for two camps that provide students handson experience in computer programming and design. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO has received a $260,000 grant from Worldwide, HP for the Lyles College of Engineering to receive wireless tablet personal computers, wide-format […]

NOTEWORTHY NEWS : NEW GL BILL BRINGS NEW CHALLENGES

With expanded education benefits for war veterans taking effect in August, public institutions anticipate having to cater to veteransâ€™ unique needs.

Faculty & Staff

The Overqualified Professor

Community and junior colleges are seeing a substantial increase in the number of job seekers, particularly Ph.D.s, who in other years might have opted for higher-profile opportunities.

Community Colleges

An Air Force Officer and Academic

With its red brick, Georgian-style buildings situated among the gently rolling hills of central Virginia, Hampden- Sydney College has long been considered a genteel place to raise crops of new leaders.

Community College Photo

New GI Bill Brings New Challenges

With expanded education benefits for war veterans taking effect in August, public institutions anticipate having to cater to veterans’ unique needs.

Grants & Gifts

AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Texas) has received a $35,305 grant from the Texas Workforce Commission for 68 scholarships for two camps that provide students handson experience in computer programming and design. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO has received a $260,000 grant from Worldwide, HP for the Lyles College of Engineering to receive wireless tablet personal computers, wide-format […]

Community Colleges

Obama Says Education a Key to Economic Rebound

Conceding unemployment will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a $12 billion plan to help community colleges prepare millions of people for a new generation of jobs. Challenging critics, he said he welcomed the task of turning around the economy.

Some Undergrads Shave a Year Off College to Save

While educators debate the wisdom of three-year college degrees, some ambitious students are going ahead and finishing their coursework in three years anyhow as a way to save thousands of dollars in tuition.

Leadership & Policy

California College Officials Charged With Misuse of Funds

The former chancellor at the City College of San Francisco has been charged with making illegal campaign contributions and steering public funds to a secret account used in part to buy liquor and pay parking tickets, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Community Colleges

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM

Lethbridge is a small city of approximately 83,000 people located in Alberta, Canada, an hourâ€™s drive north of the Montana border. The landscape in this region is striking â€” a combination of flat prairie grasses…

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Tenured Faculty at Two-year Schools Impact Student Transfers

State articulation and transfer agreements do little to increase the number of community college students who transfer to fouryear institutions, but having tenured faculty at the community college level helps.

Page 206 of 293

The trusted source for all job seekers

We have an extensive variety of listings for both academic and non-academic positions at postsecondary institutions.

The trusted source for all job seekers