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Academics

Scholarships Help Combat Inequality

Education has long been called the “great equalizer” in helping families and individuals attain the American dream. But it’s become increasingly harder to ignore deepening inequality within our higher education system. Due to a variety of factors – the rising cost of college, cuts to government funding and limited or subpar early education opportunities for […]

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Growing Community College Leaders

Leaders are in demand at community colleges across the nation. A study by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) found that 75 percent of survey respondents anticipated retiring within 10 years, and that colleges also could expect significant turnover among senior administrators and faculty. While progress […]

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Fix California Community Colleges

It’s been three years since the board of directors of California’s 113 community colleges enacted its “if we don’t build it they won’t come” policy, and the results are plain depressing. In an effort to save money, the directors decided to prohibit students from repeating classes they’ve already taken, which to a bean counter might […]

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Michigan Officials Question Feasibility of Reform Plans

Higher education reform has been a big topic this election season — particularly for Democrats. As opponents in the Democratic primary, now-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D–VT) lauded their two separate proposals of debt-free and tuition-free college, respectively. As the nominee, Clinton has released a combination of the two plans as […]

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Community Colleges Strengthen Lives and Families

Community colleges continue to play an important role in our bipartisan efforts to expand Iowa’s middle class. Community colleges are among the most affordable options for students seeking to further their education. They’re the first place many Iowans go for college classes, job training and better career opportunities. In 2015, Iowa’s community colleges educated and […]

Finance

Jill Biden and Eric Garcetti: Free Community College Benefits the Nation

A high school diploma is no longer enough to ensure that Americans have the skills they need to move into the good-paying careers they love. By the end of this decade, 65 percent of all job openings will require an education or skills training beyond what any student receives in high school. In fact, 11 […]

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Closing ITT Tech Helps Stop For-Profit Colleges from Shaking Down Students

Some for-profit colleges came to be a curse on the very students they were in business to help, doing little more than exploiting students for their federal grants, loans and veterans benefits while failing to educate them adequately to find employment in competitive job markets. Taking steps to shut off the federal spigot to for-profit […]

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Pilot Aid Program Offers Students Options

By the time Peter Drucker popularized the term the “knowledge economy” in 1966, the American Dream still resonated with young people who were told that if they worked hard and got a college degree they would get a good job. Yet nearly half of today’s youth believe the American Dream is more dead than alive. […]

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Colleges Can Help Homeless Students

Teachers and administrators from our area’s community colleges and even California State University campuses have been telling the story for several years: For the first time in their experience, some of their students are homeless, and need to use school facilities to shower and change for class. Students they know and counsel sleep through the […]

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Tuition — Put It On My Card…Or Not?

If people put everything from groceries to gas on credit cards to earn rewards, why not college tuition? Many colleges and universities let you pay with plastic, and some people do. But it can be a very poor financial decision, and it may cost you more in the long run. Sallie Mae’s report “How America […]

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Higher Ed Should Be a Right

This month, this newspaper reported that college graduates in Rhode Island are now carrying an average student loan debt of $35,169 — the second-highest total in the entire country. This is alarming and must be fixed immediately. The crippling burden of student loan debt is crushing the dreams of so many Rhode Islanders and poses […]

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Change in St. Clair Renovation Plans Is Smart Move

Port Huron Times Herald—What was a good idea in June 2015 has gotten better. The ultimate outcome of the series of moves that began with St. Clair County Community College’s proposal to buy the McMorran Pavilion from the city of Port Huron may look different than what the community debated last summer and fall. The […]

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