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Arizona Faculty Association Files Complaint

TEMPE, AZ  – When the Maricopa Community College System decided to undergo a “transformation,” many teachers felt they had been cut off from decision-making after that. But now, the Faculty Association has released nearly 250 pages of some serious accusations. The Association complained to the Higher Learning Commission, which is the accreditation body. In the complaint, […]

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College Has Its Place

Hat’s off to Sweet Briar College for increasing its new student enrollment for the fall by 42 percent. The Class of 2022 will be made up of 114 first-year students, up from 79 this time last year. These gains represent a significant turnaround for a school that almost closed three years ago. Other small institutions […]

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When ‘Last Chance U’ Is on Your Campus

“I’m Brittany Wagner, man,” Independence Community College head coach Jason Brown tells a reporter midway through the first episode of Last Chance U’s third season. In that casual self-appointment, Brown gives the show’s longtime fans a friendly warning: Wagner, the beloved academic advisor who was the breakout star of the Netflix docuseries’s first two seasons at […]

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Virginia’s Shrinking Colleges Looking to Pivot

Nothing like losing a quarter of your customers to get your attention. That basically is what has happened to Virginia’s Community College System, with last term’s enrollment down 57,000 (actually only 22 percent) from its peak six years ago during the early days of the economic recovery. That drop exceeds the total enrollment at the […]

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‘Rebellion’ Mounts Among California Professors

As California leaders prepare this week to change the way the state funds its community colleges, a revolt is growing among professors who say it’s too much too soon for a system already undergoing rapid transformations to improve dismal student outcomes. Over the past two months, the academic senates from at least half a dozen […]

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Actress Kate Bosworth, Husband to Offer Film Classes In Montana

KALISPELL, Mont. — Actress Kate Bosworth is helping to cultivate the movie industry in Montana. Bosworth and her husband, director-screenwriter Michael Polish, are launching a two-week film school in July at Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, with sessions taught by industry professionals. In a tweet earlier this week, Bosworth says the goal is to […]

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Student Leaders Condemn Tweets about Undocumented Immigrants

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is taking heat this week from student leaders at the University of Kansas for remarks he made on Twitter about undocumented college students. The comments in question were posted to Kobach’s personal Twitter last week. In his post, the 2018 gubernatorial candidate wrote, “It will cost more to attend […]

Health

Educators Float Solutions to Hunger on Campus

Studying while hungry – many college students struggle to get enough to eat because they lack money to buy food. At Worcester State University on Friday, educators and policymakers floated solutions at the Voices of Hunger conference. Research from Temple University found about a third of university students and almost half (40 to 50 percent) […]

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Ex-Students Warned to Get Transcripts Before Partner College Closes

Anyone who has earned college credit through the Pawnee Nation College, a tribal community college located in Pawnee, is being strongly advised to request copies of their official transcripts as soon as possible. Bacone College, a private college located in Muskogee, Oklahoma that is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and serves as accreditation […]

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College Warned to Withdraw Bid for Culinary Program

WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas college has pulled its culinary program out of a plan to take over an old fire station after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Wichita State University and WSU Tech. Butler Community College’s Hospitality and Culinary Arts program was one of two contenders to take over the fire station in Wichita, […]

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Final Candidate Drops Out of Running for Pasadena Top Post

Pasadena City College announced Wednesday the final candidate to be its next superintendent-president dropped out of the running. The news came amid angst within the college community about the search, which led the college’s Academic Senate — the organization representing the faculty — to send a letter on Monday to the board of trustees. In […]

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R.I. Campus Officers Lobby for Guns

Campus police officers insisted to lawmakers Wednesday night that they need to carry firearms to do their jobs, even as administrators from the colleges opposed giving guns to their safety officers. The House Judiciary Committee is considering legislation to mandate the arming of campus police, which would be a change from the current law that […]

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