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CUNY Battles Overcrowding As Enrollments Boom
Enrollment in the city’s public university system has soared in the last decade, creating a desperate race for space — and sometimes, seats too. A total of 274,906 students packed into the City University of New York in the fall of 2018 — and the huge number is expected to be about the same this […]
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Boston’s Community College Problem
Less than 3 percent of newly enrolled, full-time students graduate on time from community colleges in Boston: 2 percent at Bunker Hill Community College and 1 percent at Roxbury Community College. It’s college decision time, and most students in Boston Public Schools will become part of a broken system of “well-meaning” adults, who are severely allergic to accountability. […]
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Funding For Community Colleges’ Non-Traditional Students Improved
SHERIDAN — Wyoming Education Attainment Executive Committee launched the Wyoming Works program June 20, allocating $5 million from the state Legislature to support the program; $3 million will be used for individual student grants and the remaining will be used to support program development. Wyoming Works is designed to provide programs and resources to allow […]
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Community College Boosts Retention with Student Pathways Redesign
A multi-year campaign to improve student success at Lorain County Community College is seeing positive results. The Ohio institution utilized Civitas Learning‘s student success platform and suite of application to identify common barriers to student persistence and streamline pathways to completion, increasing full-time student retention by nearly 12 percentage points. Data analysis from the Civitas Learning platform revealed […]
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OpEd: College Partnerships Benefit Students
Thomas Nelson Community College and Old Dominion University are finalizing an academic partnership agreement that makes it even easier for TNCC’s industrial technology students to transfer to ODU. Streamlining the award of credits for prior work experiences, the agreement responds to societal demands for a more technologically-prepared workforce. This agreement is one of dozens the […]
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A Parting Gift: Holyoke Community College Receives $1 Million Legacy Donation From Late Alumna, Professor Elaine Marieb
HOLYOKE — To Elaine Marieb, few things in the world mattered more than learning and helping others. She showed that commitment through one of her final gifts: a $1 million donation to Holyoke Community College. Announced Tuesday at a Board of Trustees meeting, the gift from the Elaine Nicpon Marieb Foundation will go toward HCC […]
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Senator Kamala Harris Speaks at Los Angeles Southwest College
California Sen. Kamala Harris said she will unveil Monday what she called “the first ever national priority on closing that pay gap and holding corporations accountable for transparency and closing that gap.” Corporations failing to do so will face penalties, Harris said Sunday at Los Angeles Southwest College at what was billed as the first […]
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PCCD, Superior Court of Alameda County Partner for New Certificate Programs
When officials from the Superior Court of Alameda County in California began to notice growing vacancies in its courtroom clerk and legal processing assistant (LPA) roles, they believed it would be an ideal situation to look to the area’s community colleges to address gaps in public service employees. Now, a strategic partnership between the court […]
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Report: More Can Be Done to Assist Undocumented Community College Students in California
A new report by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s office reveal that more needs to be done to assist undocumented students in the areas of financial aid, legal services and mental health. The Dreamer’s Project Report, an analysis of the support that the 111 community colleges in California provide for the estimated 50,000 to 70,000 […]
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3 Tips to Save And Succeed at a Community College
If community college is in the cards for your high school senior, don’t wait until the fall to prepare. Having the right strategy going before starting on that path to an associate’s degree can help your child finish his education on time or make a successful transfer to a four-year college. Read More
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Austin Community College to Add Second Bachelor’s Degree Program
In the fall 2018 semester, Austin Community College launched its first bachelor’s degree program, seeking to address the nursing shortage in Central Texas by allowing local registered nurses to complete a bachelor’s degree in nursing. Next year, the community college district will begin its second bachelor’s degree program with a similar goal——helping members of the […]
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UTA, Dallas County Community College District Seek to Improve Transfer Credit Process
As lawmakers in Austin work out details of a plan to fix the state’s college transfer process, two North Texas institutions are looking to ease that process between their schools. The University of Texas at Arlington and the Dallas County Community College District signed an agreement Friday that they say will remove roadblocks for students […]
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