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Obama Lays Out Community College Plan at Campaign Stop

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama detailed a plan to strengthen community colleges, including making community college free for some Americans, during a campaign stop Saturday in central Wisconsin.

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Legislator Targeted Amid Alabama Two-year College System Probe

State Rep. Todd Greeson says his office at Northeast Alabama Community College was visited by federal agents who subpoenaed co-workers in a probe of Alabama’s two-year college system.

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All In The Family

Last February, associate editor Toni Coleman looked into whether DNA tracing was an expensive waste of time, given the increasing popularity of African-Americans setting out to learn their African lineage.

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How One Community College Gave Displaced Factory Workers the Confidence to Enroll

PROBLEM A few years ago, hundreds of displaced factory workers in southern Iowa were looking for training to reintegrate into the workforce when the Exide Battery Corp., closed shop in the area and they were laid off. ACTION Community leaders, administrators from Southeastern Community College in Burlington, Iowa, and displaced workers gathered to come up […]

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Diverse Calendar

March 12-16 The National Black Graduate Student Association 20th Annual Conference “Brilliance in Black”Four Points Sheraton at O’Hare HotelChicagoWeb: www.nbgsa.org March 13- 15Eleventh Annual Regional HBCUSummit on Retention“Improving Retention at HBCUs:Retention is a Shared Enterprise”Clarion Resort HotelOcean City, Md.Contact: Dr. Anne L. Gaskins-NeddPhone: (301) 860-3687e-mail: anedd@bowiestate.edu March 14-15Faculty Resource Network at New York University“The Molecules […]

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Philadelphia Creates College Access Center To Boost Number of Degrees in City

Just 21 percent of Philadelphia residents have a bachelor’s degree; that’s below the national average and low considering the region has more than 80 colleges and universities. A new college access center aims to help the estimated 70,000 residents who started college but never finished go back to school.

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Wis. College to Give Bikes to Freshmen

RIPON Wis. A tiny liberal arts college here hopes it has found an answer to a nagging shortage of campus parking: a bicycle giveaway. If incoming freshmen promise not to bring a car to campus for a full year, Ripon College will give them a Trek 820 mountain bike, a helmet and a lock a […]

Celebrating Black History Month

Numerous two-year and four-year colleges are hosting Black History Month events across the nation.

Dual-Enrolled High School Students Get Head Start At N.C. Community Colleges

Led by two of its classmates, a freshman literature class plotted to break out of a concentration camp.

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Students, Educators Respond to Ohio Governor’s Early College Initiative

Educators, students and parents applauded and raised questions Thursday about Gov.

Higher Ed Institutions Contribute to Country’s Widening Social Divide, Educators Say

It is difficult to find a college or university that does not have diversifying its student body on the top of its long list of goals and objectives, but one educator at the American Council on Education’s annual meeting said that many higher ed institutions are largely to blame for society’s widening social, racial and economic divide as many colleges’ own admissions policies keep out the very the populations they say they’re trying to admit.

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Perspectives: The Future of Public HBCUs Depends On Exceptional Leadership

HBCUs make up 3 percent of colleges, but 23 percent of Black graduates. Surely, Black institutions add value to American higher education. The question is how can they contribute more?

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