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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, […]

Leadership

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 […]

Leadership

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 […]

Leadership

Connecticut System Leader: Won’t Resign After Merger Fails

The president of the Connecticut State Colleges and University System says he’s not resigning, despite calls for him to step down after a regional higher education accreditation organization rejected a plan to consolidate Connecticut’s 12 community colleges into a single institution. Mark Ojakian (oh-JAY’-kee-an) says he plans keep working with the Commission on Institutions of […]

Workforce Development

Nursing Schools Reject Thousands Despite Shortages

There’s an acute nursing shortage in the United States, but schools are turning away thousands of qualified applicants as they struggle to expand class size and hire more teachers for nursing programs. In America, experienced nurses are retiring at a rapid clip, and there aren’t enough nursing graduates to replenish the workforce. At the same […]

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Connecticut Colleges Face Uncertainty After Merger Ruling

A plan called “Students First” that would combine all 12 of Connecticut’s community colleges won’t be moving forward in the immediate future. In the wake of the plan’s failure, community colleges face uncertainty, and students and faculty are worried about tuition hikes and school closings. The plan’s goals were to prevent tuition hikes and campus […]

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Adjuncts: Full-Time Part-Timers

Paul Baltimore never expected that he’d have to cobble together teaching gigs at three different community colleges to earn a living. Baltimore, who holds a doctorate from UC Santa Barbara and is an expert in the history of U.S. foreign relations, commutes via light rail and bus from his home in Sacramento to his teaching […]

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Inability to Attract Faculty to Attract Faculty Hurts Rural Schools

From a window in the Williston State College petroleum technology laboratory, in the heart of North Dakota’s oil country, Alberto Bellina can see a Halliburton oil complex tucked against snow-covered hills. Bellina teaches at the college. But unfortunately for rural schools like Williston State, he’s looking at his future. “Let’s face it: A guy who’s […]

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