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May 14, 2013 - 3:00am
Community colleges are using $1.5 billion from Labor Department to shift gears, by sharpening career focus and creating stackable credentials built on industry competencies.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean
May 16, 2013 - 9:46pm

Consider a broader role for career counselors.

Confessions of a Community College Dean
May 14, 2013 - 10:36pm

The flaws of a much discussed statistic.

Confessions of a Community College Dean
May 13, 2013 - 10:04pm

When adjuncts are creative and full-timers aren't.

Confessions of a Community College Dean
May 12, 2013 - 9:44pm

A report from the spelling bee.

Archive

May 21, 2010 - 3:00am
Overturning the ruling of a lower court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has granted Arizona’s Maricopa Community College District immunity from a lawsuit filed by a group of Latino professors who charged that college officials had not sufficiently disciplined a colleague who sent e-mails they viewed as discriminatory.
May 20, 2010 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON – Millions of dollars in federal financial aid go unclaimed each year by eligible low-income students at community colleges, according to the inaugural report from the College Board’s new Advocacy & Policy Center.
May 17, 2010 - 3:00am
President Obama, foundation leaders and the heads of advocacy groups all agree that community colleges need to focus on more than access and drastically improve their generally low completion rates. By and large, these leaders believe that these institutions know, whether by research or common sense, just what to do – such as providing better academic advising, outreach to struggling students, financial aid to encourage full-time enrollment, smaller class sizes and so forth. So what’s the holdup?
May 13, 2010 - 3:00am
Many community college administrators boast about the speed with which their institutions are able to get students in and out with a credential and employed. But officials at one community college in western Massachusetts are encouraging their engineering students to think long-term and consider transferring onward in order to boost their career prospects over the long run.
May 12, 2010 - 3:00am
Cam Holmes graduated from Tulsa Community College on Friday – and she says that, but for a program created three years ago, she never would have done so.

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