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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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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 […]

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College Promise Initiatives Encouraged to Incorporate New Strategies

A coalition of nonprofit organizations have partnered in a new effort to call on states, cities and institutions to incorporate evidenced-based strategies into their College Promise initiatives. The release of “Promise with a Purpose: College Programs Built for Completion” coincided with the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). The report highlights […]

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Colleges Team Up with Resort on Culinary Program

Southern Maine Community College and Central Maine Community College are teaming up with Sunday River Resort in Newry on a new culinary apprenticeship program that will provide the resort with skilled workers for its restaurants and food outlets. According to a written statement from SMCC in South Portland, the agreement provides for up to 15 […]

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Diverse Honors Champions at AACC Meeting

DALLAS – Diverse: Issues In Higher Education presented the Diverse Champions award to Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail and posthumously to Dr. Suanne Roueche at the opening ceremony of the American Association of Community Colleges 98th annual meeting on Saturday. Roueche’s son, Jay, accepted the award on behalf of his mother, a longtime community college teacher, […]

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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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Leaders See Promise in Career and Technical Education

Matthew B. Crawford couldn’t land a job in 1989 after getting a degree in physics from a California university, so he tried something different. He’d done electrical work over the summers through high school and college, and with his savings nearly gone, he began roaming parking lots of home improvement stores, putting flyers on windshields […]

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Suit Over ‘Free Speech Zone’ Settled

CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago community college has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a student who alleged the school violated her free-speech rights by prohibiting her from handing out flyers that read, “Shut Down Capitalism.” Ivette Salazar, who gets $30,000 from Joliet Junior College, claimed the college limited political expressions to a small […]

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Profile: Suanne Roueche Made a Profound Difference

They traveled from far and near to pay tribute to a community college pioneer. The list of the attendees at the memorial service read like a who’s who of the world of community colleges. There were former and current community college presidents, thought leaders, former students and colleagues, who, on a Saturday morning in February, […]

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Profile: Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail Rallies Around College Access

Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail became a pioneer in the community college world in 1998, when she founded the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program (CCLDP) at a historically Black college and university. A staunch advocate for community colleges, who held a number of teaching and administrative positions over the years, McPhail had already become a history […]

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University of California to Guarantee Admission for Transfers

California community college students who complete a set of prerequisite courses with a sufficient GPA will be guaranteed admission into the University of California, the University announced Wednesday. UC President Janet Napolitano and California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley signed a memorandum requesting the UC Academic Senate guarantee admission for students beginning community college […]

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