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Community Colleges

‘Plus 50’ Completion Strategy Aims To Help Baby Boomers Attain College Degrees and Certificates

Thirteen community colleges across the nation will help support the adults as they expand both their minds and options by providing a program aimed to help them attain degrees.

Dr. Walter Bumphus

Faculty & Staff

Policy Report Says Reform Critical to Viability of U.S. Higher Education

University of Virginia-based policy research center releases study that urges higher education leaders to revamp the way they do business and refocus on delivery modes that lead to higher rates of completion.

Dr. Carol Geary

HBCU Conference Schools Take Big Hits in Latest NCAA Academic Progress Report

The NCAA banned Jackson State and Southern of the Southwestern Athletic Conference from postseason play in football next season and did the same thing for Southern and Grambling in men’s basketball.

Community Colleges

Education Advocates Facing Up to Budget Deal, Anticipating 2012 Fiscal Debate

Next year’s House plan contains more than $700 billion in cuts from labor, education, health and human service programs.

Community Colleges

Report: Pay Disparities Persist for Minorities and Women With College Degrees

A study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows that White median earnings surpassed that of all other groups in all but a few fields, and, in those cases, White median earnings were surpassed only by those of Asians.

Anthony Carnevale

Community Colleges

Perspective: Cultivating Community College Creativity Within Financial Constraints

North Carolina and Texas success stories illustrate best practices of community college global education.

Influential Speakers Inspire 2011 Graduates to Pursue the American Dream

This spring, minority-serving institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions, are hosting a number of influential leaders as graduation speakers.

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SUNO/UNO Merger Scrapped for Lack of Support

House Speaker Jim Tucker, sponsor of the legislation, said that he doesn’t have the two-thirds support needed for passage and doesn’t expect to be able to get the votes this legislative session.

Community Colleges

Poll Finds Recent College Graduates Hit by Recession

A new survey of college graduates from the last five years finds that the Great Recession has hit them hard, forcing them into low-paying jobs, often unrelated to their educations.

Dr. Cliff Zukin

Leadership & Policy

Perspective: Community Colleges Should Be at the Front Line of Economic Recovery

The focus of community colleges has shifted over the past decade to include not only the education of young adults leaving high school, but also adults who are already in the workforce, a community college president writes.

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Pell Institute Releases Research on DeVry

In an effort to distinguish itself within the embattled for-profit college sector, DeVry Inc. presented research that portrays the company as using effective student-centered practices for helping low-income students.

U.S. Higher Education Confronts Historic Financial Challenges, Part II

Diverse convened an expert panel to dissect the financial condition of public and private institutions. This is the second installment of a two-part series.

Diverse roundtable

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