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Education’s technological revolution hits Europe: curricula improvements wanted, cost increases not wanted

Paris Philippe Jollant, fed up with yet another boring lecture, stood up in his poetry class at the Sorbonne, swung his brown cloth bag over his shoulder and stalked out to a sunny cafe in this city’s Latin Quarter.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Federal government bolsters support for educational technology – includes related article about high school seniors’ selecting colleges by Internet

It may lack the fiscal health of America’s giant computer firms, but the federal government has emerged recently as a central funding source for schools and colleges to access educational technology.

July 10, 2007

Ed. Department, Congress Focus On Community College Transfer of Credit Problem

For low-income students, paying for college is hard enough without having to repeat courses. That’s why U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and many scholars are looking for answers that will help more students transfer credits when they move from one higher education institution to another.

July 10, 2007

California’s Community College System Gets Students Into School But Not Always Out

SAN DIEGO For most of history, higher education has been reserved for a tiny elite.

July 9, 2007

U of North Alabama First In State To Offer Culinary Arts Degree

FLORENCE Ala. The University of North Alabama is the state’s first four-year public college to cook up a culinary arts degree.

July 8, 2007

Community Colleges

Bishop State Gets Transition Team to Help Fix Financial Problems

MOBILE, Ala. Alabama College System chancellor Bradley Byrne has created for Bishop State Community College a transition team, lead by the administrator to replace outgoing president Dr. Yvonne Kennedy, to help the college recover from the financial scandal that has threatened the predominately Black institution’s accreditation.

July 8, 2007

Leslie V. Forte: the woman behind the name on the scholarship – Obituary

Her life was a struggle. She grew up poor in the gritty projects of Los Angeles. She left California a well-educated woman with an associate’s degree from a community college, a master’s degree from Stanford University and an effervescent love for teaching.

July 7, 2007

Private scholarships for minorities challenged

Annandale, Va. The latest assault on the higher education establishment’s affirmative action programs is over an obscure, $500 private scholarship for minority students at a community college in Northern Virginia.

July 7, 2007

Overcoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.

July 6, 2007

Community Colleges

Establishing a Real-World Credential

Community College of the Air Force to award 300,000th associate degree.

July 5, 2007

President Clinton meets with NAFEO – finally – National Assn. for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education – includes excerpt of Pres. Bill Clinton’s speech and a list of attendees

Washington For the first time since he assumed office in 1992. President Bill Clinton met with several dozen members of the National Association For Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) to discuss issues of concern to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

July 4, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Baton Rouge College’s opening up in the air

BATON ROUGE, La. State officials want to delay the court-ordered deadline for opening a new community college so they can locate the campus on what is now Louisiana State Police headquarters.

July 4, 2007

Centers of attention: roles of collegiate conference centers come into focus – includes list of members of Assn. of Conference and Events Directors International for Collegiate Conference and Events Professionals – Cover Story

Twenty years ago, a college might have rented out dormitory space to church groups in the summer to keep the buildings in use and to make a little money on the side. Today, renting out space to host conferences and meetings has become a big business for colleges and universities.

July 4, 2007

Community Colleges

Graduate and Continuing Education for Community College Leaders: What It Means Today. – book reviews

edited by James C. Palmer and Stephen G. Katsinas Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, 1996 I had looked forward with considerable anticipation to the publication of Palmer’s and Katsinas’s Graduate and Continuing Education for Community College Leaders: What It Means Today.

July 4, 2007

Despite Sallie’s success story… – welfare recipient and Santa Clara University student Sallie Shows

Welfare Reform Expected to Restrict College Access

July 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

California chancellor’s compensation squabble – City College of San Francisco Chancellor Del M. Anderson

When Del M. Anderson accepted the position as chancellor of the City College of San Francisco (CCSF), she knew she wasn’t walking into the ideal situation. There had been relatively few applicants for the job, the pay was lower than she expected for such a large urban institution, and there was much work to be done in building community support.

July 4, 2007

Community Colleges

The educational horizon shifts south for U.S. border colleges

AUSTIN, Texas Inspired by – the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), community colleges throughout the Southwest are developing curricula catering to a growing number of students seeking careers linked to hemispheric trade.

July 4, 2007

Student loan default rates fall dramatically – includes related article on default violations of schools

Washington The nation’s student loan default rate has reached its lowest level ever, according to the U.S. Education Department (ED), which nonetheless identified more than 300 colleges and universities that could lose their right to participate in student-aid programs because of excessive defaults.

July 4, 2007