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Kaine Introduces ‘Reverse Transfer’ Bill

U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) have introduced The Correctly Recognizing Educational Achievements to Empower (CREATE) Graduates Act.  This bill will help students receive the degrees that they have already earned by creating incentives for institutions of higher education to establish “reverse transfer” programs, or initiatives to transfer back credits from a […]

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Bachelor’s Degree Graduates Make California History

Nearly 140 students throughout the state are making history this graduation season as the first in the California Community Colleges to earn a bachelor’s degree through the groundbreaking Baccalaureate Pilot Program. “This spring we congratulate the first bachelor degree earners in the California Community Colleges. With this pilot program we are furthering the mission of […]

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‘Reverse Transfer’ Provides Motivation, Associate’s Degree

Twelve years after graduating from high school, Stephen Houx had earned a lot of college credits before and after a five-year stint in the Marine Corps, but he was still working toward a degree. Then out of the blue, he was notified last year that his time at Gateway Community College plus his courses at […]

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Santa Monica to Confer First Bachelor’s Degrees

Santa Monica College’s 88th commencement ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 12 at Corsair Field, said the school in a press release. About 675 of the more than 4,500 students who have earned degrees and certificates are expected to take part. Like other 2 year schools, SMC has many part time students. Among the graduating students […]

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N.C. College Offers Flexible Plan to Earn IT Degrees

Wake Technical Community College is proud to announce a flexible new way to earn IT degrees. “Wake Tech Flex” is an innovative competency-based education initiative offered in two Computer Technologies degree programs: Software Development and Network Management. Competency-based education is a learning model that allows students to get credit for what they already know, progress at their […]

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Student Graduates with 8 Degrees

In her 23 years at Lakeland Community College, Professor and Co-chair of Mechanical Engineering Debbie Lozano has never seen anything quite like it. “It’s absolutely overwhelming,” she said. “I never dreamed I’d see a student like this. He went at it hard every step of the way. We went out of our way to adjust our […]

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Access to Child Care Important to Success

As a 37-year-old enrolled at a local community college, Tracy Mingo shares the experience of many of today’s college students: She’s a parent. More than a quarter of undergraduates – about 4.8 million students – are raising dependent children, according to the most recent data published by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Mingo decided […]

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Delaware Cohorts Let Students Earn Bachelor’s in Place

When Nicole Schultz ’18 was getting ready to transfer from Bucks County Community College to a four-year program at Bloomsburg University, she suffered the loss of a family member. Schultz wanted to stay close to home but did not want to give up on her plan of earning a bachelor’s in counseling psychology. “I just […]

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92-Year-Old Woman Graduates with Associate’s

A 92-year-old South Carolina woman is graduating from Midlands Tech this month with an Associates of Liberal Arts degree, WLTX-TV reported. Annie Dillard was the owner of a hair salon for 30 years, but five years ago, she decided to go back to college. “I decided to come because I wanted to learn more about […]

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Report: Focus on Part-Time Students to Close Achievement Gaps

A new report this week from the Education Advisory Board (EAB) encourages community colleges to increase support for part-time students in order to achieve equity and reduce the nearly 20-percentage-point achievement gap between White and minority students. In “Reframing the Question of Equity,” EAB researchers found that part-time students – who are more likely to […]

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Should College Be Goal for All?

Over the past decade, policymakers and education leaders have recognized that, while high school graduation and college enrollment rates were important benchmarks, they were not sufficient indicators of ultimate student success. As a result, many education analysts and school districts around the country began to place greater importance on college completion, and to track completion […]

Workforce Development

4-Year Colleges Wary of Competition for Bachelor’s

Starting in fall 2019, students at Ohio’s Sinclair Community College will be able to enroll in a four-year degree program in unmanned aerial systems, also known as drones. They’ll learn mission planning, maintenance, laws, data analytics and more. Working on drones is a new field, and the college is eager to expand its program to […]

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