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Section: Institutions > Community Colleges
Community Colleges
Florida Higher Ed System Confronting Multiple Challenges
Newly appointed Florida higher education leader tackles difficult tasks, including conversion of community colleges into four-year colleges and helping defuse governance crisis on public university tuition rates.
November 8, 2009
Students
Obama Community College Proposal May Not Be Enough
President Barack Obama wants to invest some $12 billion in community colleges with the aim of seeing an additional 5 million students graduate by 2020.
November 1, 2009
African-American
Census: ‘Brain Gains’ for High-Tech Cities
Passing up industrial centers and former hotspots in the Southwest, college graduates are fueling population growth in urban, high-tech meccas, such as Charlotte, N.C. and Austin, Texas.
October 29, 2009
Students
WASHINGTON UPDATE: Two-year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge
Two-year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge Rising rate causing some community colleges to opt out of student loan system.
October 28, 2009
Students
Two-Year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge
Rising rate causing some community colleges to opt out of student loan system.
October 25, 2009
Community Colleges
College Tuition is Up Sharply Amid Recession
With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase.
October 22, 2009
Community Colleges
Stalled Pursuit of Higher Learning
Undocumented students across the country have been hampered in their quests for higher learning by the dismal economy and restrictive state legislation targeted at immigrants.
October 15, 2009
Students
SPECTRUM: FOUND IN TRANSLATION
From his small office near the Charles River, Dr. Fallou Ngom can envision the rewriting of much of African history, including the slave trade.
October 14, 2009
Community Colleges
DIVERSE BOOKSHELF : FALLING BEHIND
No sooner had the ink dried and the Sept. 9 news embargo on this book passed than it became one of the most widely reviewed and analyzed academic studies released in a long time.
October 14, 2009
Community Colleges
DERAILED : ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND RESTRICTIVE STATE LEGISLATION STALL UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS
As a founder of the University Leadership Initiative, an advocacy group for undocumented students in Texas, Julieta Garibay sorts through the numerous e-mails her organization receives daily.
October 14, 2009
Students
REINVENTING REMEDIAL EDUCATION
When Kafayat Olayinka graduated from Spingarn High School in Washington, D. C., with a 3.5 grade point average, she was certain those kinds of grades would help her zip right through her college years.
October 14, 2009
Leadership & Policy
Convention Panel Encourages Gay Chancellors, Presidents to Remain Open About Their Sexual Orientation
Since age 26, Dr. David Wain Coon has been open personally and professionally about his sexual orientation. “I wanted my students to have the role model I didn’t have when I went through my education.”
October 8, 2009
Leadership & Policy
Asian-Americans Hope To Build Pipelines to College Presidencies
Dr. Ding-Jo Currie has long been aware that she is one of only a handful of Asian American college presidents in the U.S. today. What she did not know until recently, however, is how few mid- and senior-level Asian administrators are groomed into becoming presidents.
October 4, 2009
HBCUs
Stimulus Money Slow To Reach Colleges
An avalanche of funding is expected after a slow start to stimulus spending for campus-preservation projects.
October 1, 2009
Faculty & Staff
LASTWORD: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Adjunct faculty are invaluable to community colleges, so why aren’t they taken into consideration in the colleges’ missions?
September 30, 2009
Community Colleges
HARVESTING ‘GREEN-COLLAR’ JOBS
Scholars and academic institutions help local communities grow new employment sector.
September 30, 2009
Faculty & Staff
CONVERGING INTERESTS
Environmental and sustainability issues have permeated every level of academia, from art instruction to business courses.
September 30, 2009
HBCUs
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Stimulus Money Slow To Reach Colleges
An avalanche of funding is expected after slow start to stimulus spending for campus-preservation projects.
September 30, 2009
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