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Community Colleges
Three Alabama College Students Arrested in U.S. Church Arsons
Three university students, including two aspiring actors known around their college campus as pranksters, were arrested Wednesday in a string of nine church fires across Alabama…
March 9, 2006
Community Colleges
Seven Colleges Receive Grants to Aid Transfer of High-Achieving Community College Students
Cornell University and seven other colleges and universities have received grants totaling $6.78 million from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to launch programs designed to help high-achieving…
March 9, 2006
Sports
Former Kansas Community College Coach
A former community college basketball coach is the latest to be sentenced in a wide-ranging criminal investigation that has already snared eight coaches and led to the…
March 8, 2006
Community Colleges
Congress Approves Resolutions Favoring More Minorities in NASCAR
A partnership between NASCAR and historically Black universities, intended to expand the number of minorities involved with auto racing, has gotten final approval from the U.S. Congress…
March 5, 2006
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Community Colleges
States Make Progress Closing High School “Expectations Gap” But More Needs To Be Done, Report Finds
Just one year after 45 of the nation’s governors joined leaders from education and business to make high school reform a national priority…
February 22, 2006
Community Colleges
Ohio Gov. Says Four-Year Colleges
Gov. Bob Taft says Ohio must change the way it helps school children prepare for college and work…
February 22, 2006
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Students
Institutional Revival
Nobody would have seen this coming back in 2003, when the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) placed Cankdeska Cikana Community College on probation…
February 22, 2006
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African-American
Celebrating Black History Month
Here’s a look at how some colleges and universities around the country are celebrating Black History Month…
February 22, 2006
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Community Colleges
Movement Afoot to Build Dorms at Some Community Colleges
Community colleges are looking at building dormitories in a move that could change the profile of institutions designed a half-century ago as commuter schools…
February 20, 2006
MSIs
Alliance Will Manage National Articulation and Transfer Network
The Alliance for Equity in Higher Education has assumed leadership and management of the National Articulation and Transfer Network, a major national initiative designed to increase enrollment…
February 20, 2006
Leadership & Policy
Hawaii Community Colleges off Accreditation Warning List; Only One Remains
The accreditation crisis facing Hawaii state community colleges seems to finally be working itself out…
February 15, 2006
Students
Grants & Awards
Arizona State University received a $100 million gift from Ira A. Fulton and his wife, Mary Lou Fulton. The money will be divided among the College of Education, the university’s foundation and a discretionary fund for ASU President Michael Crow. Ira Fulton is the founder and CEO of Fulton Homes. Mary Lou Fulton graduated from […]
February 8, 2006
Community Colleges
N.C. Senator: Community Colleges Need to Aggressively Go After Federal Grants
North Carolina community colleges need to follow the lead of the state’s public universities in aggressively seeking more grants as more…
January 26, 2006
Community Colleges
A Capital Conundrum
For years we have discussed doing an article about the lack of a community college in the nation’s capital…
January 25, 2006
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Leadership & Policy
A Conspicuous Absence
Every major city in every state in the country has a public community college, as do U.S. territories such as Guam and Puerto Rico…
January 25, 2006
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Grants & Awards
Eastern Washington University has received a $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to help equip the university’s new Computing and Engineering Building. Half of the funds will be used to purchase scientific equipment, while the other half will go towards an endowment to replace and maintain current equipment. Holy Names University (Calif.) has received […]
January 25, 2006
Students
Enrollment up at Mississippi Junior Colleges, More Funding Sought
Enrollment in Mississippi’s two-year colleges has grown more than twice as fast as in the universities in recent years…
January 19, 2006
Students
Report: Campus Crime Reporting Falls Short
Many universities don’t fully meet the requirements of a 1990 federal law that mandates reporting campus crime…
January 17, 2006
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