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Colleges Review 'Community'
Some loved it. Some hated it. But everyone is a critic. Last week, community college employees and attendees got their...
Reorienting Themselves
Some community colleges move substantial portions of new student orientations online to maximize efficiency; others push face-to-face programs to make process more personal. Is there a happy medium?
Cash for Courses
City College of San Francisco's plan to court donors to sponsor canceled classes seemed a classic sign of the times, with even skeptics seeing no hope elsewhere. But since the idea surfaced, the plan has evolved.
Skills Training à la Carte
Highly customizable work force education at Michigan community college allows employers and students to select individual competencies they want mastered, worth fractions of a credit hour and costing a few dollars. Is choose-your-own instruction the future?
Emergency Fund Proves Worth
Students at New Mexico community college who get one-time grants for unexpected life expenses – from car payments to emergency medical expenses – stay enrolled at higher rate than other students.
Light Collection Plates
The financial climate is prompting many theological schools -- small, endowment-dependent institutions, many of them -- to consider mergers and other new ways of doing business.
Med School, High Tech
New medical schools are launching curriculums with more use of simulation and more social science -- and many established schools are moving in that direction, too.
No Vacancy
California's community colleges are being told to enroll more and more students -- even as they cannot find ways to educate and graduate those already there.