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N.M. College Votes to Oust President

LAS VEGAS, N.M. — The Luna Community College board of trustees has voted to oust President Leroy “Huero” Sanchez. The Las Vegas Optic reports that the college’s board of trustees voted the previous week to end Sanchez’s employment contract on June 30. Sanchez’s tenure, which began in June 2015, has been plagued with claims of […]

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Accreditor Warns Mississippi College

JACKSON, Miss.— Mississippi’s largest community college has been put on warning by its accrediting body, which cited financial problems and other issues. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, in a statement June 23, said that Hinds Community College was sanctioned because it’s violating accrediting rules related to a sound financial base […]

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Budget Crisis Stalls Progress in Illinois

The ongoing budget impasse has been particularly difficult for Illinois’ institutions of higher education, which have received a mere fraction of their usual state funds. Community colleges depend on the state to supply 30 percent of their overall budget, but that formula has evaporated over the past two years. John Avendano is the president of […]

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College Cuts Developmental Credits by Half

Strong partnerships among Klamath Community College, regional high schools, and Southern Oregon communities are producing results. Recent data from KCC shows the percentage of developmental education credits attempted by KCC students fresh out of high school has been slashed by more than half in the past four years. “For us to cut this in half […]

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Mediator to Hear Case of Seized Papers

WICHITA, Kan. — A federal mediator is expected to hear arguments next month over a grievance stemming from a fray between administrators at Hutchinson Community College and student journalists and their suspended professor. The dispute resulted in administrators cancelling media classes near the semester’s end and briefly seizing an edition of The Hutchinson Collegian. The […]

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Audit Will Examine Spending at College

Millions of dollars of parcel tax money intended for faculty salaries in the Peralta Community College District may have been misspent on salaries, vacation, sick leave and other fringe benefits for nonacademic staff, says a public watchdog group that has pushed for an independent audit of the spending. Alameda County voters approved Measure B, a […]

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4 Community College Leaders to Watch

Two-year colleges are often seen as a last option for students who may not be ready to enter the four-year university. In reality, community colleges serve an immeasurably critical role to the overall higher education landscape. Not only are they often the top providers of credentials for skills that lead to in-demand jobs, they’re often […]

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Experts: NY Free-College Model Positive, Not Perfect

While the state of New York’s new “tuition-free college” program may pave the way for similar and broader programs throughout the country, the way the program is structured makes it so that it will benefit the middle class and do nothing for low-income students. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office never pretended anything else, announcing over […]

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Va. Partnership Could Revolutionize Transfers

When George Mason University launched a bachelor’s program in mechanical engineering two years ago, administrators wanted to try something different. They had seen too many students in the past frustrated by failed attempts to transfer community college credits that did not meet the rigorous standards of the Volgenau School of Engineering. The solution? GMU and […]

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Alabama System Will Review Presidents

A presidential search for a permanent Southern Union president will begin later this year, said Jimmy Baker, newly appointed permanent chancellor for the community college system. Southern Union State Community College has had an interim president for almost 10 years. Meanwhile, presidents in the Alabama Community College System will now undergo job performance evaluations. Read […]

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Alabama System Weighs Merger of IT, Business

The Alabama Community College System is considering a strategy to merge its business and information technology systems for all community colleges across the state. The Community College System could increase efficiency in the system and reduce cost if its business and information systems were uniform across all community colleges, according to Liz Murphy, CEO of […]

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New Cape May President Outlines Workforce Agenda

COURT HOUSE – Dr. Barbara Gaba, Atlantic Cape Community College’s ninth president, and in office less than three weeks, addressed the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce luncheon meeting Feb. 16 at the local campus. Her address contained an outline of the agenda that would place the college in a position its founders envisioned, one […]

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