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Community Colleges

Study: Pell Grant Use Surges at Kansas JUCOs

A study of Kansas community colleges shows the number of students receiving federal financial aid jumped dramatically as the nation struggled to recover from the recession.

Obama Plan to Raise Dropout Age Draws Mixed Reviews

Raising the high school dropout age may bring more focus to postsecondary education, but analysts express divergent opinions on how such a requirement would impact the dropout dilemma.

Dr. Antonio Flores

African-American

Chronicling the Life and Career of a Higher Education Giant — Norman Francis

In this unique series, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education honors the life and career of Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman Francis. For more than four decades, Francis has led the private, historically Black, New Orleans-based university to exemplary accomplishment and achievement. Diverse recounts the challenges Francis faced and triumphs that are credited to his leadership. Please read and join the discussions at the end of each story in the series. ENDPARAGRAPH

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Community Colleges

Commentary: Florida’s Community Colleges Provide a History Lesson

Not only is the history of the civil rights movement inadequately taught to students today, but primary sources documenting the events of that era are being lost, an English professor at Florida’s Broward College writes.

Dr. Rivka Spiro

Civil Rights Project: California Maintains Segregated Community College System

The vast majority of Black and Latino students in California are being subjected to a “segregated” community college system where very few transfer to four-year institutions, researchers charged Tuesday as they released three reports.

Dr. Gary Orfield

Community Colleges

New Budget Targets Pell, Community Colleges

The Obama administration on Monday outlined a new federal education budget with an increase in the maximum Pell Grant and a major new $8 billion initiative to promote community college/business partnerships.

Community Colleges

Policy Forum: Research Necessary to Explain Dual Enrollment’s Full Impact Among Low-Income Students

While high school/college course enrollment programs lead to higher GPAs for some students, more research should develop a stronger link between the programs and post-secondary success, panelists asserted at a Washington forum.

Community Colleges

Emanuel Announces City Colleges of Chicago Workforce Training Initiative

City Colleges of Chicago’s new “College to Careers” program will create partnerships with local corporations and organizations to prepare city residents for jobs in high-growth industries.

Hispanic Education Highlighted at Twitter Town Hall Meeting

During a Twitter Town Hall hosted by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, more than 400 tweeted questions and received answers related to Hispanic education.

Community Colleges

Obama Administration Focuses on How to Keep the Cost of College Education Affordable

The plan would include reforms that would steer federal funds away from colleges that fail to keep net tuition down and toward those colleges and universities that do their fair share to keep tuition affordable, provide good value, and serve needy students well.

Community Colleges

College Presidents Wary of Obama Cost-control Plan

President Barack Obama’s new plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition or face losing federal dollars is raising alarm among education leaders who worry about the threat of government overreach.

President Obama

Community Colleges

Obama Maps 2012 Education Agenda

President Obama outlined an election-year higher education plan that includes a major expansion of college work-study programs and a stronger role of community colleges in workforce training.

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