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An Inside Look at a Law’s Renewal
Newly signed law includes more than 60 initiatives, including those for single parent students, active duty military and disabled students.
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An Inside Look at a Law’s Renewal
Newly signed law includes more than 60 initiatives, including those for single parent students, active duty military and disabled students.
Faculty & Staff
Colleges Confront Shootings With Survival Training
Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any “improvised weapon,” from a backpack to a laptop computer.
Students
When It Comes To Funding, Community Colleges Have to Emulate Four-Year Schools
California’s community colleges, the largest higher education system in the nation, have launched a three-year campaign to create a $100 million endowment for scholarships.
Students
Weak Economy Spurs Growth for Community Colleges
Two-year community colleges are seeing record enrollment as families squeezed by tough economic times steer high school graduates away from more expensive four-year universities.
Community Colleges
Community College Students at a Glance
One-third of community college students who enrolled directly from high school in 2004 had no intention of going beyond earning an associate degree, but within two years 47 percent of this group raised their expectation to pursue a bachelor’s degree.
Students
Grants & Gifts
The CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK has received $9.6 MILLION from the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to develop an honors program in legal studies to provide students from diverse backgrounds the training and education necessary for law school admission. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’s Teachers College has received a $500,000 grant from the Lumina […]
Leadership & Policy
College Presidents Seek Debate on Drinking Age
College presidents from about 100 of the nation’s best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.
Students
Arizona Law Has Undocumented Immigrants Dropping Out of College
Changing laws have made life tougher for undocumented immigrants in Arizona, including young people giving up dreams of college and better lives because they are unable to pay out-of-state tuition as required by voters.
Community Colleges
North Carolina Officials Struggle Over Educating Undocumented Immigrants
In a state where the commitment to higher education extends all the way back to the founding of the nation¡¯s first public university in 1789, North Carolina¡¯s community colleges just can¡¯t seem to get past the politics of illegal immigration.
Community Colleges
NC Board to Discuss Admitting Immigrants
North Carolina community college leaders who will be meeting later this week plan to discuss whether to admit undocumented immigrants to degree programs after federal officials told the college system it was up to the state, a newspaper reported on Aug. 11.
Community Colleges
Philadelphia Program Offers Free Tuition for Community College Students Near Degree Completion
In an effort to reduce the financial pressures on current and prospective students, the city of Philadelphia and its largest public postsecondary institution has launched a new program to aid students in completing their college degree.
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