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Commentary: Florida’s Community Colleges Provide a History Lesson
Not only is the history of the civil rights movement inadequately taught to students today, but primary sources documenting the events of that era are being lost, an English professor at Florida’s Broward College writes.
February 23, 2012
Dr. Rivka Spiro
Latinx
Civil Rights Project: California Maintains Segregated Community College System
The vast majority of Black and Latino students in California are being subjected to a “segregated” community college system where very few transfer to four-year institutions, researchers charged Tuesday as they released three reports.
February 14, 2012
Dr. Gary Orfield
Community Colleges
New Budget Targets Pell, Community Colleges
The Obama administration on Monday outlined a new federal education budget with an increase in the maximum Pell Grant and a major new $8 billion initiative to promote community college/business partnerships.
February 13, 2012
Hilda Solis
Community Colleges
Policy Forum: Research Necessary to Explain Dual Enrollment’s Full Impact Among Low-Income Students
While high school/college course enrollment programs lead to higher GPAs for some students, more research should develop a stronger link between the programs and post-secondary success, panelists asserted at a Washington forum.
February 12, 2012
Chad Alderman
Community Colleges
Emanuel Announces City Colleges of Chicago Workforce Training Initiative
City Colleges of Chicago’s new “College to Careers” program will create partnerships with local corporations and organizations to prepare city residents for jobs in high-growth industries.
February 9, 2012
Rahm Emanuel
Latinx
Hispanic Education Highlighted at Twitter Town Hall Meeting
During a Twitter Town Hall hosted by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, more than 400 tweeted questions and received answers related to Hispanic education.
February 8, 2012
Arne Duncan
Community Colleges
Obama Administration Focuses on How to Keep the Cost of College Education Affordable
The plan would include reforms that would steer federal funds away from colleges that fail to keep net tuition down and toward those colleges and universities that do their fair share to keep tuition affordable, provide good value, and serve needy students well.
February 6, 2012
Eduardo Ochoa
Community Colleges
College Presidents Wary of Obama Cost-control Plan
President Barack Obama’s new plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition or face losing federal dollars is raising alarm among education leaders who worry about the threat of government overreach.
January 29, 2012
President Obama
Community Colleges
Obama Maps 2012 Education Agenda
President Obama outlined an election-year higher education plan that includes a major expansion of college work-study programs and a stronger role of community colleges in workforce training.
January 25, 2012
Obama SOTU
Community Colleges
LSU, ULL May Partner for 3-year M.D. Program
The new partnership would be an expansion of a current program allowing LSU med students to complete the first two years of medical school in New Orleans before coming to Lafayette to spend two years doing clinicals at University Medical Center.
December 4, 2011
Students
Experts: Streamlining Employee Benefits, Increasing Student Credit Loads Among Ways to Reduce College Costs
The House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training heard expert testimony Wednesday on how colleges and universities can reduce institutional costs and lower student tuition.
November 30, 2011
Students
Higher Education Leaders Urged to Improve Data Collection for College Completion Efforts
A new report recommends that higher education leaders use historical data to gauge graduation rates among diverse student groups for whom graduation is less likely so that institutional improvements can be made to help those students defy the odds.
November 28, 2011
Students
A Master Teacher Leads the Bronx Community College
The new Bronx Community College President Carole Berotte Joseph’s lifelong commitment to teaching is the key to her success.
November 28, 2011
drcarolebrottejoseph
African-American
Nursing Program Aims To Train Minority Students for Service in Rural Areas
Built on more than a year of outreach and recruitment at minority-serving institutions, the federally funded PRIDE program has attracted 26 students to Frontier Nursing University who are training as either nurse practitioners or nurse midwives.
November 22, 2011
Students
Osher Scholars Get Much-Needed Assist From Community College Scholarship Program
Known as Osher Scholars, the neediest students at the 112 community colleges in the nation’s most populous state are receiving scholarships worth up to $1,000 for textbooks, lab fees and other instructional supplies.
November 22, 2011
Students
Occupy Protests Spread to U.S. College Campuses
Students at more than 120 universities have participated in protests, ranging   from students at elite private Ivy League colleges to those who attend state or community colleges full-time.
November 21, 2011
African-American
UNCF Conference Town Hall Meeting Focus on Creative Strategies for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Panelists offered up a wide array of solutions — from beefing up community and corporate partnerships to seeking diversified funding sources – as ways to tackle the problems that show no sign of subsiding.
November 13, 2011
Sports
Federal Court Permits Football Players’ Discrimination Case Against California Community College
Three Black former football players can pursue their civil rights suit accusing a northern California community college of racial discrimination, verbal abuse and harassment, a federal judge has ruled.
November 10, 2011
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