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Middle-Class Students Look to Community Colleges First

Community colleges have become a more common choice for education among middle-class students in the United States. Students may not want to attend UC or CSU institutions after high school as they may be indecisive in regards to what they want to major in while many look to community college for its affordability. Many students […]

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Study Questions College as Great Equalizer

Shavondra Britton had a pretty typical high school experience. “They focused all the time on going to college,” said the 21-year-old African American, currently a junior psychology major at the University of Illinois-Springfield. But she had no help with the process: “I had to figure out the rest. How to pay was overwhelming,” she added. […]

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States Reach Out to Get Former Students Back in School

When Laken Blount got a call from a man who claimed she’d earned enough college credits to earn an associate degree, she was skeptical. “I was going to hang up,” she recalls. “I thought they just wanted money from me.” But when the caller started sharing specifics about her prior enrollment dates and courses, the […]

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Study: For-Profits Lose When 2-Year Colleges Offer Bachelor’s

When Florida opened the door 17 years ago for two-year colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees, they expanded rapidly into a host of new areas: business, nursing, teaching, and more. St. Petersburg College alone created 25 bachelor’s programs. Thousands of students flocked to them, paying a fraction of what they would pay for an equivalent degree […]

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More Than 10,000 Adults Apply for Tennessee Program

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Gov. Bill Haslam has announced that more than 10,000 adults have applied to Tennessee Reconnect, the state’s new program that allows adults, no matter their age, to go to community college or technical schools tuition-free. Haslam said the immense interest in the program shows that Tennesseans understand the value of education and […]

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First Tesla START Class Graduates

Most Tesla news tends fall into the blockbuster category — Model 3, falcon-wing doors, gigantic batteries in Australia, that kind of thing. Here’s a tiny story about Tesla that may cause barely a ripple in the great ocean of news about the Silicon Valley company. The first class to complete the Tesla START program has […]

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College Fixes Accreditation Issues

Monterey >> It took a little more than a year but Monterey Peninsula College appears to have fixed a series of accreditation issues at the school. The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools hit MPC with 22 recommendations it needed to make in February 2017, including the top […]

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Missouri Makes It Easier to Transfer Credits

A new curriculum aims to simplify how students transfer general education credits from a Missouri community college into one of the state’s four-year public universities so that students don’t have to retake general education courses. CORE 42 was approved earlier this month by the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education and will go into effect […]

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Colorado Bill Opens Door to Nursing Bachelor’s

Denver, March 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HB18-1086, “Community College Bachelor Science Degree Nursing,” became law, setting the stage for the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) to offer Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) completion programs. “Colorado needs more BSN-prepared nurses, and with this legislation, CCCS will now be able to deliver them!” said System […]

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College Will Teach Gunsmithing

JACKSONVILLE, NC (WITN) Coastal Carolina in Jacksonville will soon be one of two community colleges here in the east where gunsmithing is offered as a course. While leadership at Coastal Carolina says details on their program are still being worked out, over at Lenoir Community College, they say teaching with guns has never been more […]

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UC President Wants Path for Transfers

While the California State University system offers community college students guaranteed admission if they take the required classes, the University of California does not. That may soon change. UC President Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday in a speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco that she is calling for the university system to begin exploring […]

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Community College League Touts Connections and Partnerships

Community colleges, along with other education-supporting organizations, continually work to promote student success with tools that encourage students to get involved in groups in school and in surrounding communities. That was the theme Tuesday on the third day of the League for Innovation in the Community College Conference. Richland College, one of seven fully accredited […]

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