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Tennessee Reports Highest Graduation Rate

The College System of Tennessee has seen a growth in enrollment and Tennessee Promise and Tennessee Reconnect participants, as well as the highest graduation rate recorded. Enrollment in the College System has grown slightly, with 88,352 students enrolled in community colleges in the system, according to the preliminary numbers. Numbers were announced at the Board of […]

In First Year of R.I. Promise, Retention Increases

WARWICK, R.I. — The Community College of Rhode Island this week released new data indicating that 62 percent of full-time, fresh-out-of-high-school students who entered the college in the fall of 2017 — the first Rhode Island Promise cohort — returned this fall, and 22 percent are on track to graduate within a two-year time frame. […]

Participation in Dual-Credit Courses Rising In Kentucky

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Higher education officials in Kentucky are reporting a big increase in the number of high school students taking dual-credit courses through a college or university. The Council on Postsecondary Education says nearly 35,000 high school students across Kentucky participated in the dual-credit courses during the 2017-18 academic year. The council says participation […]

Report: One-Third of Remedial Students Don’t Need Them

According to new research, one-third of community college students enrolled in remedial coursework don’t even need them. The Community College Research Center (CCRC) and social policy researcher MDRC recently released a research guide, “Toward Better College Course Placement,” revealing standard placement tests, such as the College Board’s ACCUPLACER, are actually “misdirecting” student placements. This is […]

Oakland Official: Try Tiny Homes for Student Housing Crisis

Arriving with a suitcase, a backpack and a few bags of groceries, Oakland City Councilmember Abel Guillen appeared more ready for a weekend getaway than a press conference — and that’s exactly the point. Guillen was preparing to spend two nights in a “tiny home” erected by Laney College carpentry students in the parking lot […]

Texas Lawmakers Aim to Make Transfers Easier

Many Texas students enroll in community colleges hoping to eventually transfer to a university, but only about 20 percent of them end up doing it. And each year, students spend nearly $60 million in tuition, fees and other costs on excess courses that won’t help them earn a bachelor’s degree. The time wasted and mounting […]

Cuomo: All N.Y. Public Colleges Will Have Food Pantries

Every State University of New York and City University of New York campus will have a food pantry or similar program by the end of the fall semester, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. The food pantries are part of Cuomo’s “No Student Goes Hungry” initiative that he announced in his 2018 State of the State […]

Momentum Builds for P-Tech Early College Programs

Shanaes Akhtar first heard about Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) as a middle schooler. She read an article about the Brooklyn high school and learned that students there spend six years instead of the traditional four but they graduate with an associate degree along with their high school diploma – all for free. […]

District Offers Free Tuition for First-Time, Full-Time Students

There’s not just the Richmond Promise. Now, local students have access to the California College Promise. First-time, full-time students can receive free tuition for up to one year at Contra Costa College, Diablo Valley College and Los Medanos College effective Monday, Aug. 27, the first day of the new school year, the Contra Costa Community […]

Workforce Development

Prisoners on Track to Receive Associate’s Degrees

Fifty seven incarcerated students at Pamlico Correctional Institution were recognized on Thursday for their commitment to the first year of an associate’s degree program that could eventually expand throughout the state’s prisons. “I think that this is a prototype that can be copied and that it will work anywhere where you have the same amount […]

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W.Va. Gov Wants Panel to Focus on 4-Year Colleges

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice doesn’t want to make two-year community and technical colleges a high priority for a group reviewing West Virginia’s higher education system. Justice says in a news release Wednesday the Blue Ribbon Commission on Four-Year Higher Education will identify ways to help four-year institutions run more efficiently before expanding its […]

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Sacramento Offers $500,000 in Grants to Support Transfers

A new initiative at Sacramento State to help transfer students graduate on time has just gotten a major boost. More than $500,000 in grant money will support the “Through in Two: Leveraging the Associate Degree for Transfer” program. It is a partnership among Sacramento State, the Los Rios Community College District, the Sacramento Region Community […]

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Jobmarket

Graduate Job Market Hits Five-Year Low as Skills Gap Widens Between Higher Ed and Employers

Higher Ed Joins March on Wall Street to Defend DEI Programs

Most States Fail to Adequately Support Newly-Arrived Immigrant Students, New Report Finds

America's $1.7 Trillion Moral Crisis: A Searing Indictment of Higher Education’s Broken Promise