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Section: Institutions

Community Colleges

President Obama’s Plan to Make Community College Free Draws Praise, Skepticism

President Obama’s new plan to make community college free receives mixed reviews from leaders, policymakers and analysts in higher education.

January 11, 2015

Obama to Propose Free Community College Program

President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed making community college free “for everybody who is willing to work for it.”

January 8, 2015

University of Virginia Proposes New Rules for Greek Organizations

Kegs of beer and pre-made mixes of liquor and punch will be banned from fraternity parties at the University of Virginia under proposed new rules aimed at stamping out sexual assault on campus.

January 7, 2015

Community Colleges

Audit Report Finds Santa Fe Community College in Compliance

Auditors noted some previously disclosed problems with Santa Fe Community College’s finances but concluded that allegations of mismanagement weren’t substantiated.

January 6, 2015

Community Colleges

Education Company Settles with Justice Department

An education company will pay about $1.3 million under a civil settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve allegations it employed unqualified instructors at its Texas campuses.

January 6, 2015

Community Colleges

Drexel Ending Degree Program at 3 Philadelphia-area Community Colleges

Drexel University previously offered a degree program at three Philadelphia-area community colleges — an unusual partnership that has already begun to be phased out.

January 6, 2015

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Leadership & Policy

Board Approves Merger of Georgia State, Georgia Perimeter Colleges

The schools’ combined fall 2014 enrollment of 53,927 students would make the consolidated university the largest in the state.

January 6, 2015

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Faculty & Staff

Higher Education: The Problem with Priorities

For most colleges, the best hires typically come today with individuals who understand that the problem with priorities is how to find the courage — and backing — to address them.

January 6, 2015

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Community Colleges

Asheville Police Lower Educational Requirements for Recruits

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The Asheville Police Department has cut degree requirements for new recruits, saying new police officers no longer need a two-year college degree and can be hired with a high school diploma.

January 5, 2015

Mountain State Officials Shift Focus to Accreditation Suit

Officials with the former Mountain State University are shifting their attention to a lawsuit against an accrediting body following West Virginia University’s offer to buy the school’s Beckley campus.

January 4, 2015

Let’s See Leniency for Oregon Duck ‘Satirists’

Oregon player chant deserves applause not discipline.

January 4, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Bat Signal for Blind Example of Campus Innovations

Thousands of innovations are emerging from college classrooms and labs around the country.

January 4, 2015

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Initiative in California Clearing Path to Law School for Underrepresented

There’s a broad effort to encourage and steer more community college graduates in California — especially minorities and other underrepresented populations — into law school.

January 4, 2015

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January 1, 2015

Professor Boxill Among 4 Fired in University of North Carolina Academic Fraud

North Carolina’s flagship public university says it’s firing a professor who once headed the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her role in the academic fraud scandal that’s rocked the school.

January 1, 2015

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Community Colleges

For City College of San Francisco, New Year a Matter of Survival

A San Francisco Superior Court judge said he will rule this month on whether to overturn a regional agency’s termination of accreditation for City College of San Francisco.

January 1, 2015

Faculty & Staff

China Leader: More Party Control Over Colleges

China’s president has called for the Communist Party’s leadership over the country’s universities to be enhanced in a continuing tightening of ideological controls across a wide range of society.

December 30, 2014

Friends University Plans New Tuition Strategy

Friends University in Wichita is planning a new tuition strategy that it hopes will encourage more students to graduate in four years.

December 29, 2014