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Southwestern Michigan College Stops State Lawsuit After New Legislation Passed

A lawsuit filed on Jan. 4 by Southwestern Michigan College (SMC) against the Michigan’s Office of the Auditor General was dropped after a new law changed how community colleges in the state should give to a state-run teacher retirement program. The college decided to file the suit after an investigation by Michigan’s Office of the […]

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St. Louis Community College Campuses Hold Event to Help Students Enroll, Register for Courses

All six of the St. Louis Community College (STLCC) campuses are offering Enrollment Express, a program that helps individuals interested in enrolling in the college, become a college student and register for upcoming courses for the spring semester. The program holds enrollment events at each campus where staff can answer questions and assist potential students […]

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Community College Grant Program Bill to be Reintroduce to WV Senate

Senate Bill 1, an updated version of Senate Bill 284 that was passed last year, will be back on the Senate table when the legislative session begins this week. The bill will establish a grant program for West Virginia’s Community and Technical College students. “We have many, many jobs in West Virginia that go unfilled […]

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Californians Want to Make Community College Free

A new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California finds that 53 percent of Golden State adults believe that tuition-free community college should be a priority for the next governor. With the state reporting major cash surpluses, the incoming administration might be inclined to act. But zeroing out the cost of junior colleges won’t save California […]

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More DREAMs come true in California: How tuition waivers opened doors for undocumented students

California decided to crack open the door to higher education a little more for undocumented students through the California DREAM Act. In a new study of the impact of this 2013 policy, education researcher Samantha Astudillo and I discovered that it helped put undocumented students on equal footing with students who are U.S. citizens in […]

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City College to drop one third of class offerings over 7 years

City College of San Francisco administrators say they need to permanently cancel as much as a third of the school’s class offerings over the next several years to fix what they describe as 20-year structural budget problem. Read more

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Community College of Beaver County gets American Airlines grant

The Community College of Beaver County’s School of Aviation Sciences was one of only 17 aviation schools in the country to receive a grant from American Airlines. The school announced Wednesday that they had once again received a $25,000 grant for being a top “innovative aviation organization.” The funds would go toward the launch of […]

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Federal grant to create jobs-training program at Stonehill College, Bridgewater State

EASTON —A new jobs-training program is coming to Stonehill College courtesy of a $570,000 federal grant and an emerging technology called integrated photonics. By using light, rather than electricity, to transmit and process information, proponents of the technology say it can speed up the transfer of data while using less energy, potentially revolutionizing the storage […]

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SUNY Schenectady allies with Cazenovia College for education degrees

SCHENECTADY — Students at SUNY Schenectady will, starting in 2019, be able to get four-year teaching degrees thanks to an agreement with Cazenovia College that was reached on Monday. The concept is to let students who reside in Schenectady remain at home and get their bachelor’s in education, according to SUNY Schenectady President Steady Moono. […]

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Rethinking ‘Remedial’ Classes: Instead of Helping Students Catch Up, They Hold Them Back

In an effort to help disadvantaged students through college, both public schools and state officials have identified what may seem an unlikely bogeyman: the courses designed to help struggling students prepare for college-level material. Those catch-up courses — called “remedial” or “developmental” education — were set up with the best of intentions. Read more

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Mitchell Community College trustees to consider voter ID next year

Mitchell Community College officials will decide next year if it wants to make sure photo identification cards given to students will qualify as photo ID when voting. A bill passed by the N.C. House and Senate would allow an individual community college to declare its student IDs as valid for voting, granted that it meets […]

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Collin College to be Texas’ first community college with armed marshal program

As students sit in the library and cram for their final exams, it’s likely that the last thing on their minds is safety. This week, Collin College is turning the page, becoming the first community college in Texas to have a marshal program. In 2015, the Texas Legislature expanded the marshal program to two-year colleges. […]

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