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Serrata’s Rise to Presidency a Positive Change in Plans

He would have been content pursuing his vocation as a student affairs and enrollment manager indefinitely, but fate had other plans for Dr. William Serrata, president of the El Paso County Community College District (EPCC). “I never aspired to serve as the president,” Serrata says. “My aspiration and goal in my career was to be […]

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Retention After Year One: Is College Worth It?

Colleges work hard to keep students from leaving after their first year with Southern Miss, JCJC, William Carey and PRCC taking a variety of approaches to keep kids at school. Brandon Rue might not have made it to his sophomore year at the University of Southern Mississippi without a little help with retention. A school’s […]

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Expert: Low-income Dual Enrollment Students Need Support

Dual enrollment programs started out as a common sense idea: let students take college level classes through their local community college while still in high school. Credits they earn can go toward a future degree and potentially cut down on the time and cost of earning a bachelor’s or associate’s degree. A new report from […]

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State System Sets Graduation Record

VERSAILLES, Ky. —The Kentucky Community and Technical College System says it has set a new high mark of graduates and credentials awarded. For the 2016-17 academic year, 16,146 students graduated from the college system. That’s a nine percent increase over the previous year. The previous high was 15,958 in 2013-14. The college system says its […]

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Arizona President Wants Students to Finish 2-Year Degrees

KINGMAN – Michael Kearns wants to raise the number of Mohave County residents with an associates degree by just 1 percent a year, which would require 320 graduates from Mohave Community College. That’s about twice as many graduates as the college currently produces, he said Monday at the Conservative Republican Club of Kingman monthly meeting […]

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Transfer Degrees Speed Graduation at CSU

Early alumni of California’s community college transfer program are showing promising results for the 7-year-old law’s efforts to ease the path to a bachelor’s degree. Of a group of nearly 1,100 students who transferred to California State University in fall 2013 with the Associate Degree for Transfer, 48 percent graduated within two years, data provided […]

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In College at 13: Philadelphia’s Diploma-Degree Program

Emma Lien rose early Tuesday, then took a bus and a train from her home in the Northeast to begin her first day of college. She’s 13. Lien is one of 130 freshman at Parkway Center City Middle College High School, a Philadelphia School District magnet that’s affording students the opportunity to earn their high […]

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Emergency Grants Help Retain Students

An unexpected root canal or a sudden car repair might just be an inconvenience to many, but for students who are already financially pressed, those kind of small emergencies can have long-lasting effects. “Students drop out because of things like that,” said Heike Heinrich, director of student success programs at Cleveland State University. Cleveland State […]

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Cuyahoga Honors First Adult Diploma

CLEVELAND – Walking across the stage to receive a diploma is a goal that many strive for, but some struggle to achieve. Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) is making that dream a reality for 63 students of the college’s pilot of the Adult Diploma Program, program created by the Ohio Department of Education. The program is […]

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CUNY’s Remedial Program Models Success

The City University of New York is seeing positive results from a program called CUNY Start for students who want to attend college but did not score high enough to take the courses they would need to earn an associate’s degree, according to the New York Times. The program boasts higher success rates than most […]

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With Associate’s in Hand at 72, He’s Continuing at Penn

John Sprouse, of Lansdale, graduated from Montgomery County Community College on Thursday, May 18. At Montco, Sprouse was just like any other star student. Along with being president of the History Club, Sprouse was a member of the choir and an acapella group. He also was a participant in Montco’s Alternative Spring Break activities. He […]

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Men saying “no thanks” to college

John Maxwell is curious about the world and freely shares, in casual conversation, tidbits of English history. Yet he says he’ll never again set foot in a college classroom. “I consider myself mostly self-taught and I just believe I should cut my own path in life,” said the 24-year-old Maxwell, who dropped out of Littleton’s […]

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