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Flawed Plan to Retain Millennials

Starting last month, students were able to start applying for New York’s taxpayer-funded college program. Lawmakers hope subsidizing tuition will entice young New Yorkers to stay in the Empire State. As public policy goes, it won’t work. Supporters of the program characterized the legislation as a way to help families struggling with mounting student debt. […]

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CEO: Don’t Oversell Degrees

U.S. Rep. Tim Walz late last month introduced the Remedial Education Improvement Act, a bill to provide grants to colleges and universities to create and expand remedial education programs. This legislation is designed to address the serious and growing problem of millions of students enrolling in college without the skills necessary to study a college […]

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About Those Pot Scholarships

A total of 210 Pueblo graduating seniors have each been awarded a $2,000 scholarship using money from the marijuana excise tax. I congratulate them for continuing their education and wish them every success. If I were starting college today, I’d join them in a heartbeat to tap into this available fund. And just to be […]

Workforce Development

Can’t Find Work?

There is a troubling chasm in the world of work today and it threatens U.S. prosperity and hopes of strengthening the middle class. Millions of Americans — including those in historic working-class manufacturing states — find themselves disconnected from the economy. Even here in California, many workers worry they do not have the skills to […]

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Adjuncts — Students Deserve Better

The 29 public colleges and universities in Massachusetts are weary after decades of state funding cuts that have shifted the burden of public higher education from our community to students and working families. Not only are students forced to pay high fees, but our campuses now rely too heavily on an underpaid, overworked group of […]

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N.J. — a Top Exporter of College Students

New Jersey is known for its “brain drain” — with about 30,000 high school graduates heading out of state for college each year, leaving behind about 25,000 to attend in-state colleges and universities, according to federal data. Where do migrating students go? The Chronicle of Higher Education tracked the entering college freshmen class of 2014-15 […]

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A Worthy Investment

Community colleges have had their fair share of publicity in the past few years. I, for one, have been very pleased to see this oft-maligned sector of higher education be recognized for the contributions community colleges make to the local, regional, and national economy. Nearly half of all undergraduates in the United States attend community […]

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America Can’t Build Without Builders

If there’s one thing our major political parties can agree on — at least in concept — it’s the need to invest in our nation’s roads, waterways and other infrastructure. But we can’t build without builders. A $1 trillion federal infrastructure program, as President Donald Trump has proposed, could indeed produce new jobs. It also […]

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Trump Could Learn Something

On Wednesday, President Trump visited Kirkwood Community College. While the purpose of his visit was to learn about specific agricultural training opportunities at this well-regarded institution, I hope he also heard how the college uses a little-known federal program called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment & Training (SNAP E&T) to help Iowans transition from […]

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Skip the Question

Applying to college requires providing a colossal amount of information. There’s one question that, more than most, causes many would-be students to give up: Have you ever been convicted of a felony? Checking “yes” on the box while applying to one of the State University of New York’s 64 campuses has meant receiving another slew […]

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Proving Them Wrong

In a nation where 6 million jobs are unfilled for lack of trained workers and businesses clamor for more technical education, apprenticeships and workforce training, I was startled to hear White House counselor Kellyanne Conway comment that “not everyone is college material.” Perhaps some disconnect is to blame — a disconnect between 21st-century community colleges […]

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Ending the Curse of Remedial Math

Can you simplify this square root?” Erica Fells asks her class, and hands wave in the air. All but one of the students believe that it’s impossible to do so. The dissenter, Leslie Alcantara, lays out her argument. “What do the rest of you think of Leslie’s reasoning?” Ms. Fells asks, and after some back-and-forth, […]

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