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College Readiness Drops in Texas After 10 Years’ Progress

College readiness of Texas high school graduates has plummeted. This does not mean quite what it seems: students are not necessarily less ready to go to college. But it will have a real effect on their opportunities. Texas began reporting college readiness of high school graduates for the year 2006, after legislation required “… the […]

Health

College Offers Diagnostic Stenography Training (Video)

Labette strives for exceptionality. They give more than an excellent education, they give an environment of support, and a wealth of resources. Students will have access to a diverse range of teaching methods, technology, and continuous work at improvement from LCC. There are 52 different degrees/certifications to choose from, so you know you can find […]

Academics

Ivy Tech Graduating 204 ASAP

INDIANAPOLIS— More than 200 students are graduating with associate degrees earned on an accelerated timeline, thanks to a special program for at-risk high school students offered by Ivy Tech Community College. Associate degrees typically take two years of schooling. But the “Associate Accelerated Program” — ASAP for short — helped the students earn their degrees […]

Leadership

College Cuts Developmental Credits by Half

Strong partnerships among Klamath Community College, regional high schools, and Southern Oregon communities are producing results. Recent data from KCC shows the percentage of developmental education credits attempted by KCC students fresh out of high school has been slashed by more than half in the past four years. “For us to cut this in half […]

Academics

Governor Honors First “Tennessee Promise” Graduates

On her first day at Southwest Tennessee Community College two years ago, Anna Grace Rogers wandered into the wrong classroom. She stuck around, because the class had a guest: Gov. Bill Haslam. Haslam was on campus to welcome the first batch of students attending college through the Tennessee Promise, the initiative he launched to send […]

Academics

Mendocino Joins Initiative for Men of Color

NORTH COAST, Calif. – Mendocino College has joined the Community College Equity Assessment Lab, or CCEAL, National Consortium on College Men of Color. Participation in the consortium, or NCCMC, will enhance the college’s commitment to improving the success of historically underrepresented and underserved students, including men of color. Despite programs designed to enhance outcomes for […]

Academics

Free College for Adults May Be Game Changer

The first day of college is daunting anyway, but Michelle Griffith felt especially out of place. It was August 2015 when she walked into the sleek, glass-paneled atrium of Motlow State Community College in Smyrna. She was in her early 50s. “There was an entire lobby full of traditional students, and having to walk through […]

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Teen Will Graduate College, Then High School

GARY, Ind. — Eighteen-year-old Raven Osborne is about to get her college degree. “I graduate from college on May 5,” she told CBS News’ Jericka Duncan. Yes, it’s true; Raven gets her college degree two weeks before her high school diploma. “When people hear that … they’re going, ‘What? How did she do that?’” Duncan […]

Academics

Panel Endorses Bill to Reduce Remediation

Reformers have scored legislative progress in their efforts to enroll many more California community college students in credit-bearing courses instead of remedial classes, with placements based on high school grades rather than just placement exams. Critics decry remedial classes as dead ends that often lead to students dropping out. Students too often feel trapped in […]

Academics

How Can We Get More Students to Graduate?

When Jerry O’Neal went to school a couple of decades ago, career services was something you went to as you were getting ready to graduate and didn’t have a job lined up. That’s not true for his daughter, Lisa O’Neal, who is in her first year at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. She’s starting […]

Academics

What Pierce College Does to Help Students Succeed

Seven years ago, Pierce College joined a national college-reform network called Achieving the Dream and began diving deeply into data about its students to try to figure out why so few students graduated after three years. At Pierce — a state community-college district with three campuses — fewer than 19 percent of students were finishing […]

Academics

Report: Plan Will Be Boost to Dual Enrollment

A new report provides states with concrete guidelines for expanding access to dual enrollment programs, which let students earn college credit while still in high school, in accordance with new rules under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). ESSA provides financial incentives for evidence-based dual enrollment programs, but states and local education agencies are now […]

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