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A Question of Merit

A Question of Merit By Dee Anne FinkenATLANTATen years ago, the state best known for its peaches launched a revolution that still reverberates in the halls of colleges and universities across the country. Faced with a plethora of poorly performing high-school students and a growing number of graduates fleeing the state for postsecondary study, Georgia unveiled […]

January 28, 2004

Community Colleges

Language, Literature Jobs Decline for Third Consecutive Year

Language, Literature Jobs Decline for Third Consecutive YearNEW YORKThe decline in the hiring of tenure-track language and literature professors continues, according to the latest report by the Modern Language Association (MLA). Based on statistics compiled from the MLA’s Job Information List (JIL) for the 2002-2003 academic year (the latest year for which complete statistics are […]

January 28, 2004

Community Colleges

SEVIS Fee-Collection System Flawed, Higher Education Groups Say

SEVIS Fee-Collection System Flawed, Higher Education Groups SayBy Kristina LaneThe way the U.S. government wants to collect fees from international students for a foreign-student tracking system is flawed and could hinder foreign-student enrollment at American colleges and universities, according to a coalition of higher education groups.Last month the American Council on Education and 21 other […]

January 14, 2004

Community Colleges

Wireless Movement Dominating Campus IT Change

Wireless Movement Dominating Campus IT ChangeA steady growth in the use of wireless networks on American college campuses represents one of the most significant trends in the higher education information technology (IT) landscape, according to the academy’s most widely recognized technology survey. In the latest release of the Campus Computing Survey by Dr. Kenneth Green, […]

December 31, 2003

Community Colleges

Institutes Provide Program for IT Faculty Development

Institutes Provide Program for IT Faculty DevelopmentWASHINGTONMcGraw-Hill Technology Education is sponsoring the 2004 Working Connections IT Faculty Development Institutes. The 10 institutes were co-founded by the National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET), the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and Microsoft. The institutes provide a program for IT faculty development at community colleges.“We are […]

December 31, 2003

Community Colleges

College Students Spending More Time In Remedial Courses, Report Says

College Students Spending More Time In Remedial Courses, Report SaysMore than a third of students at two-year and four-year colleges spent an average of a year in remedial courses, and those that did spent more time in those courses in 2000 than they did in 1995, a new report says.More than 40 percent of entering […]

December 17, 2003

Community Colleges

Efforts to Improve Transfer Agreements Between Schools Gain $2.5 Million Boost

Efforts to Improve Transfer Agreements Between Schools Gain $2.5 Million BoostWASHINGTONA $2.5 million grant will help a national coalition make postsecondary education more accessible to interested students by changing transfer policies in higher education and improving shared technology for planning, financial aid and enrollment.The National Articulation and Transfer Network (NATN) will use the grant money […]

December 3, 2003

Community Colleges

Foreign Language Enrollment Hits Record Level

Foreign Language Enrollment Hits Record LevelNEW YORKMore students are studying foreign languages than ever, and the variety of languages being taught is greater than ever, according to a recent survey.“Students are clearly recognizing the importance of learning other languages as we become a more global society,” says Dr. Rosemary G. Feal, executive director of the […]

December 3, 2003

Community Colleges

Virginia Higher Education System Joins Forces to Curb Teacher Shortage

Virginia Higher Education System Joins Forces to Curb Teacher ShortageRICHMOND, Va.Virginia’s higher education system is joining forces to help ease the projected teacher shortage in the state. The partnership is a seamless transfer articulation agreement between Virginia’s community colleges and several four-year colleges and universities designed to facilitate admission to teacher-education programs.Students at Virginia’s community […]

November 19, 2003

Community Colleges

University of Miami Web Site Named Best in Higher Education

University of Miami Web Site Named Best in Higher EducationFOLSOM, Calif.The University of Miami (Fla.) has the best higher education Web site in America, according to the Center for Digital Education, a research and advisory institute on information technology (IT) in education. The organization sponsors an annual Best of the Web Contest. The center, which […]

November 5, 2003

Community Colleges

University of Miami Web Site Named Best in Higher Education

November 5, 2003

Latinx

America Loses Ground in College Access, Participation, Study Finds

America Loses Ground in College Access, Participation, Study FindsWASHINGTONAmerica has fallen alarmingly behind other industrialized countries in access to and participation in college, which encompasses most education and training beyond high school, according to a recent study. “Closing the College Participation Gap,” released last month by the Education Commission of the States (ECS), paints a […]

October 22, 2003

Postsecondary Participation and State Policy

Students

Calif. Colleges Not Liable for Off-Campus Injuries, Court Rules

Calif. Colleges Not Liable for Off-Campus Injuries, Court Rules QUINCY, Calif.California community colleges and their faculty are not responsible for injuries to students who are engaged in off-campus assignments, a state appellate court has unanimously held.The decision bars a suit by a Feather River Community College student who suffered crippling injuries when she was thrown […]

October 8, 2003

Community Colleges

Salt Lake Community College Faces Discrimination Lawsuits

Salt Lake Community College Faces Discrimination LawsuitsSALT LAKE CITYSalt Lake Community College is facing a federal lawsuit from several employees who claim the school has discriminated against them. The suits claim the college has created a hostile work environment for minorities and that White employees enjoy preferential treatment. An SLCC spokesman, Joy Tlou, said the […]

October 8, 2003

Community Colleges

UC Closes Door to Mid-Year Community-College Transfers

UC Closes Door to Mid-Year Community-College Transfers BERKELEY, Calif.Community college student Anoop Kaur expected to work hard and make good grades to transfer to the prestigious University of California. She didn’t expect her future to depend on whether state officials have the smarts to handle California’s money troubles. Last month, students such as Kaur got […]

October 8, 2003

Students

Diversity: Here Today, More Tomorrow

Diversity: Here Today, More TomorrowROCKVILLE, Md.Haniee Chung, a 22-year-old spring honors graduate of Montgomery College, has an outlook on diversity that might sound strange to her elders.“We’re used to it,” she says. “Really, a lot of people my age don’t think about the question of diversity much at all.”Since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings […]

September 24, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Diverse City

Diverse CityCommunity colleges are the most diverse institutions in academia, and getting more so by the dayBy Garry BoulardOf all the many numbers that illustrate community colleges’ rich diversity, the most telling are these: In 2000, the latest year for which comparable U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Census statistics are available, 12 percent of […]

September 24, 2003

Community Colleges

On the Road to Reauthorization

On the Road to ReauthorizationWith the Higher Education Act up for reauthorization, the fate of student aid and the future of colleges’ regulatory independence is uncertainAs Congress returns to work this month, it has plenty on its plate, but all eyes and hopes in higher education will be pinned on the reauthorization of the legislative […]

September 24, 2003