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Community Colleges

Community Colleges Part of New Mass. Prison Chief’s Inmate Rehabilitation Approach

Massachusetts can lock the door behind the inmates housed in its prisons, but Harold Clarke says that more than 90 percent of the time the state can’t throw away the key.

December 5, 2007

Perspectives: Cosby Offers More Needed Tough Love In New Book

Many of Bill Cosby’s critics forget he was not born with a silver spoon. Bill Cosby, like many of us, has fallen a time or two but he always managed to get back up. This, I think, is what Bill Cosby in his new book, Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors, is imploring us to do; that is, to get back in the race called life.

December 4, 2007

Community Colleges

Obama Outlines Plan for Community Colleges

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama outlined a plan last week at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge to give community colleges incentives to grow and tailor their programs to meet the needs of local industries.

December 1, 2007

Community Colleges

Without Federal Dollars, Oregon Community College Could Collapse in Earthquake

ASTORIA, Ore. — Clatsop Community College officials are hoping that federal officials will come through with a grant to help stabilize the crumbling facilities on the campus, which have been rated as 100 percent likely to collapse in a major earthquake.

December 1, 2007

Community Colleges

University Systems Commit to Closing Gap

Black college students earn bachelor’s degrees at nearly half the rate — Hispanic students at nearly less than a third the rate — of White students. Low-income students get their undergraduate degrees at one-eighth the rate of more economically advantaged students.

November 28, 2007

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Community Colleges

North Carolina Community Colleges Required to Admit Undocumented Immigrants

North Carolina’s community colleges must admit illegal immigrants as long as they are 18 years old and high school graduates, a legal decision that reverses a 2004 rule that gave campuses the option to say no.

November 27, 2007

Community Colleges

Barack Obama says family experience gives him broader base for foreign policy views

CLARION Iowa Democrat Barack Obama said Monday his childhood experience in Asia and his family in Kenya give him a greater foreign policy understanding than politicians who merely take junkets to other countries.

November 20, 2007

Community Colleges

Idaho Board of Education to Study Fairness in Dual Credit System

TWIN FALLS Idaho A State Board of Education official says the time may be ripe to re-examine the dual credit system that allows high school students to earn college and high school credit at the same time when they take college-level classes.

November 19, 2007

Community Colleges

Clatsop Community College Looks for Federal Grant for Renovations

ASTORIA Ore. Clatsop Community College officials are hoping that federal officials will come through with a grant to help stabilize the crumbling facilities on the campus, which have been rated as 100 percent likely to collapse in a major earthquake.

November 19, 2007

Community Colleges

Enrollment Tailing Off in Some Phoenix-area Community Colleges

MESA Ariz. Despite a growing population in Maricopa County, enrollment in the county’s community college system is dropping.

November 19, 2007

Community Colleges

West Hawaii Campus Building not a Long-term Solution

KAILUA-KONA Hawaii Work is to begin next summer on the first building for the planned West Hawaii Community College center, but it’s not a state or university project.

November 19, 2007

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Community Colleges

Tennessee State Panel Recommends No Tuition Hike for Community Colleges

NASHVILLE Tenn. A state panel is recommending for the first time that community college and technology center tuition rates not be increased.

November 19, 2007

Community Colleges

Kirkwood Professor Makes Push for Atheism

DES MOINES Iowa An Iowa community college professor is leading an effort to promote atheism and lobby for the removal of religious references from public life.

November 19, 2007

Community Colleges

Arkansas Community Colleges Team up for More Aviation Programs

NORTH LITTLE ROCK Ark. Several Arkansas community colleges are teaming up to increase aviation education in the state.

November 18, 2007

Community Colleges

Voters Approve Expanding Albuquerque Community College District

ALBUQUERQUE Voters have approved the expansion of Central New Mexico Community College’s tax district into northern Rio Rancho.

November 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Community Colleges to Offer Elementary Education Degrees

OKLAHOMA CITY Plans to offer four-year degrees in elementary education at four Oklahoma community colleges will help increase the number of elementary school teachers in the state, authorities said.

November 18, 2007

Community Colleges

West Hawaii Campus Building not a Long-term Solution

KAILUA-KONA Hawaii Work is to begin next summer on the first building for the planned West Hawaii Community College center, but it’s not a state or university project.

November 18, 2007

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At Germanna CC, Students Nurse Human-patient Simulators

LOCUST GROVE Va. Increasingly, students in the medical field can learn to tend to patients before setting foot in a hospital.

November 15, 2007