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Section: Institutions > Community Colleges
Students
Technology: Connecting Students to Their Community Colleges
Community colleges have an extremely difficult job trying to connect with students, given that so many drive to campus only to attend class and then return home or to work after the class concludes.
March 4, 2008
Community Colleges
College Graduates With Career-oriented Majors Out Pace Those With Academic Majors
A college degree pays, and not just in knowledge and experience, but in dividends too.
March 4, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Antioch Alumni Determined to Keep College Open
Alumni of Antioch College in Ohio want to keep the school open, even if it means holding classes off campus.
March 3, 2008
Community Colleges
Wisconsin Officials Consider Community College Baccalaureate Plan
Adults who have some college credits but never finished four-year degrees could earn their diplomas at one of the state’s 13 two-year colleges, under a proposal being developed by University of Wisconsin System officials.
February 27, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Alabama House Panel OKs Contentious Community College Oversight Bill
A House committee approved a bill Wednesday that would give a legislative panel the right to review and approve policy changes in Alabama’s two-year college system.
February 27, 2008
Community Colleges
More High-achieving Students Are Choosing Community Colleges First
Two-year colleges are increasingly serving high-achieving students, while at the same time, trying to avoid mission creep.
February 20, 2008
Community Colleges
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.
February 20, 2008
Community Colleges
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.
February 20, 2008
Community Colleges
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.
February 20, 2008
Community Colleges
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 […]
February 19, 2008
African-American
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 […]
February 19, 2008
Community Colleges
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.
February 17, 2008
Community Colleges
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 […]
February 13, 2008
Students
Celebrating Black History Month
Numerous two-year and four-year colleges are hosting Black History Month events across the nation.
February 13, 2008
Students
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.
February 13, 2008
Community Colleges
Students, Educators Respond to Ohio Governor’s Early College Initiative
Educators, students and parents applauded and raised questions Thursday about Gov.
February 13, 2008
Students
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.
February 12, 2008
African-American
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?
February 10, 2008
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