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Ingredients for Success

Ingredients for SuccessOur “Rising Stars in the Academy” edition always features a stellar group of scholars; some have been recognized for being outstanding teachers, others for being outstanding researchers, some for both.Being involved in the scholar selection process and reading the profiles for the past few years, I have found common themes running throughout these […]

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New Investments Expand, Strengthen National Network of Early College High Schools

New Investments Expand, Strengthen National Network of Early College High SchoolsSEATTLE The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in December announced $29.6 million in grants to eight organizations to expand the early college high school network to more than 25 states. Early college high schools provide traditionally underserved students with a rigorous, college-level curriculum and the […]

Report: Community Colleges Challenged to Serve Diverse, Multi-Tasking Students

Report: Community Colleges Challenged to Serve Diverse, Multi-Tasking StudentsAUSTIN, TexasA national report released last month offers new findings on students’ experiences in community colleges, where almost half of the undergraduate students in American public colleges and universities are now enrolled. Results from the 2004 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) help community colleges assess […]

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Cybercitizen Awareness Program Targets College Students

Cybercitizen Awareness Program Targets College StudentsWASHINGTONThe Business Software Alliance (BSA) has launched “Define the Line” , an awareness program designed to educate students about the importance of being good cybercitizens and respecting the intellectual property of copyrighted works online. The program also encourages students to use only legal software and to understand the impact of […]

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Educators Say School-State Relations In Flux

Educators Say School-State Relations In FluxBy Garry BoulardAmerican higher education is burdened with challenges — everything from reduced state appropriations to increased competition to dramatic surges in student enrollment.But strength is often borne of adversity. Today many two- and four-year schools have taken new approaches to funding, and in the process have developed new and […]

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State Dual Enrollment Policies

State Dual Enrollment Policies Not Sufficient to Reach Students Who Might Benefit MostWASHINGTONWhile most policy-makers and educators hope to expand the availability of credit-based transition programs at community colleges for a broader range of high school students, few states have legislation that supports outreach to low- and middle-achieving students. “State Dual Enrollment Policies: Addressing Access […]

NCCU Seeking to Triple Community College Transfers

NCCU Seeking to Triple Community College TransfersDURHAM, N.C. North Carolina Central University is freeing up scholarship money and tweaking its course requirements as it tries to triple the number of community college transfer students within five years.“It’s a fertile pool of qualified students for the baccalaureate,” Chancellor James H. Ammons said. More than 72,000 North […]

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Community Colleges Vital for Diverse Engineering Work Force, Report Says

Community Colleges Vital for Diverse Engineering Work Force, Report SaysBy Dee Ann FinkenWASHINGTONHow critical are community colleges in educating America’s engineers? According to many educators, the schools play a vital role, and their influence will continue to grow. In 1999-2000, 40 percent of engineers reported having turned to a community college for help at some […]

Congress Weighs Simplifying Student-Aid Process

Congress Weighs Simplifying Student-Aid ProcessBy M.H. MillerNora Diaz almost didn’t make it to college because her student-aid application form was too long and complicated. Diaz told a congressional panel that she couldn’t have filled out the form without help from counselors. And without student aid, college wouldn’t have been an option for Diaz, whose father […]

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Senate Bill to Fund Bush Community College Plan

Senate Bill to Fund Bush Community College PlanSeven months after President Bush proposed a new $250 million initiative for job training at community colleges, a Senate panel is stepping forward to try to fund it.The Senate committee responsible for education spending has included funds for the initiative in its 2005 budget bill, approved in mid-September. […]

Presidential Proposals

Presidential ProposalsCandidates Envision Ways to Promote Postsecondary EducationBy Crystal L. KeelsQuestions of military service and non-service, missing weapons of mass destruction, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, the threat of further terrorist attacks and the unprecedented suggestion that U.S. elections may be postponed are topics that have characterized the 2004 presidential election campaign thus far. […]

OBAMA RISING

OBAMA RISING All but assured to become the fifth Black American to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate, Obama represents to many the emergence of a new generation of national political leadershipBy Ronald Roach SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Less than two months after a stellar keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Barack Obama […]

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