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Baltimore Tech School Students on Path to Degree

This article is co-published with Dome, a Johns Hopkins Medicine publication that debuted in its new, online-only format on March 1 Swimming laps in the pool at East Baltimore’s Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Alvin Winn often wonders how, exactly, his lungs function. “I’m on the swim team,” the 10th-grader explains. “It makes me think […]

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Helping the Undecided Decide and Stay on Path

In a given month, hundreds of first-year students flock to the career services center inside Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC), seeking support in their pursuit to find a career path aligned with their interests. Across American colleges and universities, of course, such “undecideds” — students uncertain about their majors and without specific career plans […]

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Educators Look at Barriers for Nontraditional Students

Higher education administrators and advisors chose to look beyond surface-level enrollment and retention metrics in discussing ways to help nontraditional students get into and graduate from college at the annual conference of the nonprofit Achieving the Dream, as reported by EdSurge. Achieving the Dream works with about 160 educational institutions in 30 states to help […]

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Guide Aims to Improve Transfer Outcomes

Students who are most successful moving from two-year to four-year colleges — and earn degrees — attend community colleges that make transferring a priority, create clear programmatic pathways and provide tailored advising. That’s according the Columbia University Community College Research Center, which recently partnered with the Aspen Institute and other research groups to create a […]

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Universities Seek More Low-Income Students

Princeton University in the fall will begin taking transfer students from community colleges for the first time. Several hundreds miles south, Davidson College recently began keeping dining halls open during fall break, Thanksgiving and Easter, and acknowledgment that not all students could afford the trip from North Carolina. Read More

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“Reverse Transfer” Promotes Degree Attainment

In order to better serve students and promote degree attainment in the state of Indiana, Grace College and Ivy Tech Community College have agreed to a process that will facilitate the awarding of an associate degree to previous Ivy Tech students who have transferred to Grace prior to completion of an associate degree. The reverse […]

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Free College Completion Program Floated In Connecticut

Free college programs have sprung up in New York, Tennessee, Oregon, Rhode Island and California and now Connecticut lawmakers are looking into a similar plan to help students complete their degree. “Connecticut has a lot of residents stuck in the pipeline,” state Sen. Beth Bye, co-chair of the legislature’s Higher Education committee said. “It is […]

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Rethinking Advising for Community College Students

Citing advising as “the cornerstone of student support,” the Center for Community College Student Engagement makes the case for improved advising models in a new study published this week. The study, “Show Me the Way: The Power of Advising in Community Colleges,” found that despite the benefits of advising, not all students are getting the […]

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Program Graduates Low-Income Parents at Twice Rate of Other Students

Low-income parents in an Arkansas program are earning college degrees and certificates at twice the rate of other community college students, a new report shows. The program is remarkable for its low cost and impressive results with groups of students who have traditionally struggled, which could allow other states to adopt Arkansas’ model. Read More

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Dual Enrollment – What’s the Payoff?

Move over, Advanced Placement. Take a seat, International Baccalaureate. There’s a challenger in town who wants to get students college credit in high school. In all 50 states, a growing number of high school students are taking what are known as dual-enrollment or dual-credit classes. They’re single classes that earn students both high school and […]

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Chicago Mayor Trying to Fix Flaw in Graduation Plan

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is moving to remedy a key defect of his new graduation requirement for students at Chicago Public high schools: a shortage of guidance counselors to help students develop the required “plan for post-secondary success.” Addressing students at Monday’s Mikva Challenge MLK Youth Summit, Emanuel said the key to alleviating that shortage lies […]

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Accreditation Officials Want More Evidence for Mergers

HARTFORD — Accrediting officials overseeing one of the largest changes in New England higher education told state officials Thursday they need to see evidence a plan to merge 12 community colleges into one will leave some 53,000 students in the system better off. “The commission is going to need more than ‘Trust us,’” said Patricia […]

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