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Leadership & Policy

Legislation Seeks to Restore Community College Funding in California

Legislation Seeks to Restore Community College Funding in CaliforniaWALNUT, Calif.California Assemblyman Robert Pacheco, R-Walnut, pledged to amend legislation to restore some of the $126 million in community college funding cuts recently made by Gov. Gray Davis.“I think it’s time community colleges stand up for what has rightfully been earned,” says Pacheco.Pacheco announced to a crowd […]

September 12, 2001

Community Colleges

West Virginians More Likely to Pass On College Education, Survey Shows

West Virginians More Likely to Pass On College Education, Survey ShowsCHARLESTON, W.Va. West Virginians are more likely to earn high school degrees, skip college and head into lower-paying labor intensive jobs, according to the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey. Nearly 65 percent of state residents age 25 and older went no further than 12th grade, the […]

September 12, 2001

Community Colleges

Maryland Community Colleges Push Computer Literacy Among South African Teachers

Maryland Community Colleges Push Computer Literacy Among South African TeachersLargo, Md.As American higher education institutions scramble to develop international programs in distance education and Internet-based collaborations, Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) in Maryland has spearheaded a partnership with a South African college system to teach computer literacy to primary and secondary school teachers. Officials at […]

August 29, 2001

Community Colleges

UC’s New Admissions Policy Expected To Increase Minority Enrollment

UC’s New Admissions Policy Expected To Increase Minority EnrollmentSAN FRANCISCOCalifornia students who graduate in the top 12.5 percent of their high school class will be guaranteed admission to the University of California, though some may have to go to community college first. Six years after doing away with affirmative action, the university’s board of regents […]

August 15, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Jess Carreon was recently selected as the next president of Portland Community College in Portland, Ore. Previously, Carreon was the superintendent and president of the Rio Hondo Community College District in Whittier, Calif. Carreon earned a bachelor’s from San Diego State University, a master’s from the University of California at Irvine and a […]

July 18, 2001

Louisiana Scholarship Isn’t TOPS with Two-Year Students

Louisiana Scholarship Isn’t TOPS with Two-Year StudentsBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.For the most part, Louisiana’s community and technical college students have missed the state scholarship boat. Virtually all of the 36,000 students who cashed in this year on the state-funded Tuition Opportunity Program for Students, or TOPS, are attending four-year universities.To qualify, a student must […]

July 18, 2001

Community Colleges

Events

EventsJULYJuly 25-30Noel-Levitz 15th National Conference on Student RetentionNew OrleansContact: Linda RobertsonPhone: (800) 876-1117Fax: (319) 337-4700E-mail: linda-robertson@noellevitz.com Web: www.noellevitz.comJuly 27-29The Leadership Alliance’s 6th Annual National SymposiumEvergreen Conference CenterStone Mountain, Ga.Contact: Lydia GarnerPhone: (212) 854-2968E-mail: log2@columbia.edu July 28-31National Association of College and University Business OfficersHilton TowersNew YorkContact: Maureen McCarthyPhone: (202) 861-2523Fax: (202) 296-1592E-mail: mmccartju@nacubo.org Web: www.nacubo.org AUGUSTAugust […]

July 4, 2001

Community Colleges

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsCarol Moseley Braun will join the Morris Brown College faculty as a visiting distinguished professor and scholar in residence. She recently served as ambassador to New Zealand and as a Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois from 1992-1998. She earned a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a juris doctorate from the […]

July 4, 2001

Community Colleges

Bring Back the Pell Grant for Inmate Higher Education

Bring Back the Pell Grant for Inmate Higher EducationCommunity colleges have a tremendous opportunity to serve thousands of new students. A tragic mistake of the early 1990s ended hundreds of excellent associate’s degree programs for incarcerated students throughout the United States. Now is the time to correct that error and begin again to serve a […]

July 4, 2001

Community Colleges

Legislation Would Flatten Barriers for Undocumented Students

Legislation Would Flatten Barriers for Undocumented StudentsBy Kristina LaneWASHINGTON Under bills recently introduced by state and federal lawmakers, it would be significantly easier for some illegal immigrants to afford a college education — and for the colleges to afford the students.Two bills, one passed by the Texas state legislature and another introduced in the U.S. […]

July 4, 2001

Community Colleges

Academic Rigor Is Key to Academic Success, Says Education Department Study

Academic Rigor Is Key to Academic Success, Says Education Department StudyWhen it comes to success in college, an academically rigorous high school curriculum may make all the difference, the U.S. Education Department says.In its new report, The Condition of Education, 2001, the department finds encouraging progress on college access. Yet academic rigor is often the […]

July 4, 2001

Grants & Awards

Grants & AwardsMontgomery College (Maryland) received a $173,442 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help strengthen and expand the international content of the school’s curriculum.New Mexico State University received $1.3 million; Santa Fe Community College received $1.3 million and the University of New Mexico received $2.3 million from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for […]

June 20, 2001

Dropping Remedial Program Has Little Effect on CUNY’s Minority Enrollment, Says State Report

Dropping Remedial Program Has Little Effect on CUNY’s Minority Enrollment, Says State ReportNEW YORK The City University of New York’s decision to drop remedial programs from its four-year programs has had little effect on its minority enrollment, according to a state report. The elimination of remedial courses in math, reading and writing at seven of […]

May 23, 2001

Community Colleges

Agreement Extends .edu to All Colleges

Agreement Extends .edu to All CollegesWASHINGTONA recent government decision that will shorten Web addresses for many community colleges is being heralded as a critical stride forward, both symbolically and technologically, by higher education officials.The U.S. Department of Commerce announced earlier this month that it intends to enter a cooperative agreement giving jurisdiction of the .edu […]

May 9, 2001

Community Colleges

Digital Divide Panel Urges Focus on Technology’s Impact

Digital Divide Panel Urges Focus on Technology’s ImpactONTARIO, Calif.The effort to solve digital divide issues is forcing the higher education establishment and local communities to re-examine the culture of their schools and quality education as a priority, expert panelists concluded at the TechEd01 conference here. “We’re moving away from worrying about building the infrastructure. (The […]

April 25, 2001

Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:What new pressures will community colleges experience when remediation is removed from four-year institutions?Dr. James Anderson, vice provost for undergraduate affairs and professor of counselor education, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.Today, a significant number of students who attend college need remedial courses. About one-third of the nation’s first-time, full-time freshmen in […]

April 11, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Community Colleges, Historically Black Institutions Sign Pact to Ease Student Transition

Community Colleges, Historically Black Institutions Sign Pact to Ease Student Transition By Ronald RoachWASHINGTON Leading higher education officials, including the presidents of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), have signed on to the first national articulation agreement between community colleges and historically Black […]

April 11, 2001

Community Colleges

Enrollment Up, Retention Rates Down for Minorities in Connecticut Colleges

Enrollment Up, Retention Rates Down for Minorities in Connecticut CollegesHARTFORD, Conn.Connecticut’s colleges are enrolling Black and Hispanic students at record rates, but fail to keep many of them in the classroom, say state education officials. Minority students also are concentrated at lower-level programs such as two-year colleges, the Department of Higher Education said in an […]

March 28, 2001