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Alternative Pathways

Economists warn of a troubling, growing divide between two segments in the U.S.: those who will benefit from and be a part of the emerging global economy, and the many more who will not. Workers who have the education and training in key technical and interpersonal skills will secure the increasing number of non-routine high- […]

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Degree Ladders

In the first six months of 2017, over 130,000 men and women sat for the NCLEX-RN—the national standardized nursing exam that every nursing student must pass in order to officially become a registered nurse. All of those candidates must also have completed an accredited nursing program before sitting for the exam, but there are many […]

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Who Pays?

BOSTON (CBS) – Who should pay for college? I wish I had a definitive answer! According to a Fidelity and MEFA’s College Savings Study they found that Massachusetts parents are planning to cover 60% of their children’s college education costs, and they also expect their kids to cover the rest on their own – through […]

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What’s the Hurry?

As the cost of college tuition increases, community colleges are seen as a revolving door on the path to higher education. With a lower per unit cost than four-year institutions, which average $8,855 per year minus room and board, many community and junior colleges are fast-tracking student access to education to combat the potential of […]

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Get to Know Us

Have you ever had one of those neighbors that you somehow never got to know, but then after years of living on the same street, you meet and realize that all along, you’ve had a lot of common ground, and it just took you awhile to find it? Community colleges are sometimes seen as those […]

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Degree Inflation

Degree inflation is the increasing tendency of employers to demand four-year college degrees for jobs that haven’t traditionally required them. The study analyzed 26 million job postings, and found as many as 6 million that were “at risk” of degree inflation. For instance, 67% of job listings for production supervisor asked for a college degree, […]

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Removing the Stigma

People have created a stigma around junior college. More often than not the term community college comes with a negative connotation. It is time for this stigma to come to an end. Just like all stereotypes, the belittling of community college comes from the misinformed. There are endless misconstructed ideas of what community college is […]

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Accept More Transfers

Last Friday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 19, a bill promising all first-time community college students free tuition for their first year. Although the assembly bill most directly affects prospective community college attendees, USC expects an increase in transfer applicants, and will in turn be impacted. For years, USC has consistently accepted greater numbers of […]

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Making the Most of a “Promise”

Free college. It’s now a reality for high school graduates in New York and Rhode Island, which recently joined Tennessee, Oregon, Minnesota and more than 200 communities in instituting “college promise” programs to help any high school graduate who qualifies pay for college. These promises are highly attractive educationally, economically and politically. They remove what […]

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Wanted: Workers With Skills

Last month, the consulting firm Education Strategy Group presented a 75-page report to the Montgomery County School Board. The report detailed how this 161,300-student school system, Maryland’s largest, needed to alter its overall strategy and career emphasis because its current programs are not keeping pace with the rapidly changing world of work. Career preparation “has […]

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Will $25 B for a Wall Save Jobs?

President Donald Trump want to build a wall between Mexico and the United Stated projected to cost $25 billion to stem illegal immigration and protect American-born workers. The wall is the No. 1 priority on the White House Immigration principles released Sunday night. Would that be money well spent? The White House press is reporting […]

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“Free” Is Good

I intended to write a big followup to last month’s cover story on how the “free tuition” Excelsior Scholarship played out in New York this fall, as SUNY had expected to have final numbers by mid-September. But as of press time, they haven’t come. I put out a query to numerous community colleges to get […]

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