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Community Colleges
Wanting Access to College, Americans Report Feeling ‘Squeezed’ by Higher Education
An increasing number of Americans say college is important but is becoming less accessible for qualified students due to rising tuition, says a national report on public perceptions about higher education released on Tuesday.
February 16, 2010
Patrick Callan
Leadership & Policy
ACLU Accuses Calif. Instructor of Religion Lessons
An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introductory health science class, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.
February 9, 2010
MSIs
Obama’s First Year: Many Ideas, Some Achievements
For many higher education leaders, President Barack Obama’s first year presented a watershed moment to outline new goals and raise the visibility of postsecondary issues. Now, however, the task is to get more of these ideas out of the proposal stage and into law.
February 9, 2010
State of Union
Students
La. College Commission Suggests Restructuring
The final list of recommendations from a higher education restructuring panel would shift the way dollars are divvied up among Louisiana’s public college campuses and reshuffle governance of the schools.
February 7, 2010
Students
Noteworthy News – Standing Up for the Count
With federal dollars on the line, colleges are working to prevent an undercount of college students in the 2010 Census.
February 3, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Struggling Through the Cuts
California students and faculty grapple with the effects of draconian state cuts to postsecondary education that have topped more than $1 billion in the last year.
February 2, 2010
University of California employees demonstrate in San Francisco.
Latinx
Obama Budget Plans More for Education
Federal education programs would receive a 7-percent boost under the Obama administration’s proposed budget for next year, with Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions among those receiving small to moderate increases.
February 1, 2010
President Barack Obama
African-American
Racial Threat Puts Ohio College on Alert, on Edge
An attacker could find many places to hide at Hocking College, a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills. And with the threat of a mass killing looming over Black students at the community college, Allen Edwards is steering clear of the trees.
January 28, 2010
Community Colleges
Scholars Tout Community College Revitalization
The Washington-based Center for American Progress released three research papers Wednesday detailing how the nation’s community colleges can help lead the revitalization of U.S. postsecondary education and reinvigorate American work-force development for the 21st century.
January 27, 2010
President Barack Obama at Macomb Community College
Students
Community College Forum: Is Diogenes on Your Campus?
Community colleges must prize integrity by deliberately developing proactive, innovative and inclusive strategies to reinforce the behaviors of the honest students.
January 20, 2010
Students
A Cut Below
California students and faculty grapple with the effects of a state budget crisis in postsecondary education.
January 20, 2010
Students
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM : CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF DIVERSITY AND ACHIEVEMENT
Among longtime residents and higher education observers in and around Phoenix, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) has been known for 30 years as “the little college that could.”
January 19, 2010
Community Colleges
Community College Forum – Is Diogenes on Your Campus
Community colleges must prize integrity by deliberately developing proactive, innovative and inclusive strategies to reinforce the behaviors of the honest students.
January 19, 2010
Community Colleges
Obama’s Higher Ed Goals At Odds With States’ Budget Realities
LOS ANGELES  – States’ higher education systems must dramatically overhaul themselves if they intend to fulfill President Obama’s goal of remaking America home to the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020, experts said during a conference held by the University of Southern California.
January 14, 2010
African-American
Congress Expected to Focus on Education in 2010
The U.S. Congress is expected to turn its attention to higher education in the new year.
January 7, 2010
U.S. Capitol
Latinx
WASHINGTON UPDATE : 2010 CAPITOL HILL OUTLOOK: MORE ATTENTION TO EDUCATION
Congress is expected to turn its attention to higher ed in the new year.\r\n\r\nFor a year that began with great expectations, 2009 ended with many top higher education legislative goals unresolved as other pres
January 6, 2010
Community Colleges
ON THE MOVE
DR. RITA HARTUNG CHENG has been named chancellor of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Cheng was provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She earned a bachelor’s from Bi
January 6, 2010
Latinx
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM : CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF DIVERSITY AND ACHIEVEMENT
Among longtime residents and higher education observers in and around Phoenix, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) has been known for 30 years as “the little college that could.”
December 23, 2009
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