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Quality Education

Delaware County Community College offers people of all ages, backgrounds, cultures and languages affordable access to quality education that can lift them out of poverty. Small class sizes, affordable tuition, scholarships, generous tuition assistance, short-term certificates or associate degrees, and knowledgeable, caring instructors and staff are our hallmarks. Just ask 2004 graduate Habibah Sulayman Smith, […]

Dual-Credit Rules

September 1 of 2017 was the deadline for Kansas high school instructors of academic college credit courses to have a masters degree and 18 graduate credit hours in the subject being taught. High schools offer those “dual-credit” courses in cooperation with a nearby higher education institution. Those universities, community colleges and technical colleges are accredited […]

Cuomo’s Hustle

Television ads featuring starry-eyed millennials thanking New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a chance at higher learning cropped up on screens across the state this summer. The ads, paid for by the governor’s campaign, tout him as a “proven leader who gets real results.” Yet as Cuomo campaigns against the left-leaning primary challenge from actress […]

Mental Health

Every college should offer mental health services. Maybe this seems like a foregone conclusion. But in a recent survey by the California Health Report, as well as findings by experts, 19 of the 114 community colleges in California were found to have no mental health services on campus. By itself, this is worrisome, but it […]

No Diploma Mills

In June, the California legislature finalized a plan that will encourage community colleges to confer degrees to students and allow them to transfer to four-year colleges by withholding funding from low-performing community colleges. This is a flawed plan for three major reasons. First, encouraging community colleges to graduate students who are not ready for four […]

Scaling Back

Gov. Phil Murphy had a big plan for free community college for all in New Jersey. It arrived this month, looking much diminished. Instead of free college at a two-year school for anyone who wants it, income-qualifying students will get the balance paid on what they owe after their state and federal aid is applied […]

Assessing Assessments

It’s all about accurately measuring college readiness — and annihilating the achievement gap in the process. For far too long, community colleges have relied on often inaccurate assessment tests that each year cause more than a million students nationwide to begin their postsecondary education in remedial courses they may not need. In California alone, more […]

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Radical Change

A revolution will take place in teaching English and math in California community colleges and state universities during the next 12 months – the most radical instructional change I’ve seen in half a century. Driving this change is Assembly Bill 705 and California State University executive order 1110. They will impact change when and how […]

Protecting Women’s Health

I got my IUD the same way I registered for my fall classes — by scheduling an advising appointment and paying with tuition. Within 48 hours of my consultation at the university clinic, I had one of the most effective forms of birth control. My experience is fairly typical among Texas’ large, four-year universities. Here, […]

Last-Minute Aid

Only a few weeks — or maybe even days — remain until college campuses reopen, but there may still be time to get a scholarship and reduce the amount of student loans you have to borrow. Here are four resources to find a scholarship to help pay for college before classes begin. 1. YOUR COLLEGE’S […]

Preparing a Workforce

When I was young, community college were snickered at as places for kids who had goofed off in high school. Going to one was a mark of shame. That negative assessment has been changing. “Real” colleges have gotten prodigiously expensive and the curriculum has turned into a nasty brew of leftist ideology. The supposed “great […]

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Educate Inmates

Two recently introduced bills in the Legislature would pave the way for many more people to be employable and successful after leaving prison. Earlier this summer, the state Senate approved legislation (S–2055) introduced by Sens. Teresa Ruiz, D-Essex, and Sandra B. Cunningham, D-Hudson, that would eliminate a provision prohibiting certain people in prison from receiving vital tuition assistance […]

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