Study notes community colleges’ critical economic and social benefits
STLtoday.com
Counties with a high percentage of high school dropouts, in addition to having lower levels of household income, had more obesity, more smokers, more childhood poverty and more single-parent families.
Community colleges offer crisis text line to students
Mercury News
The text line adds to other services, focusing on prevention and early intervention in addressing mental health needs, available to California community college students.
Florida college grad taps Tampa contacts to aid him as mayor in Haiti
Tampa Tribune
Last year, Hillsborough Community College graduate Nicolas Victorin, 31, was elected mayor of Pignon, an agricultural city in northern Haiti with a population of 42,000.
Bill could OK 4-year nursing program at community colleges
Community Impact Newspaper
The passage of state Senate bill 2118 this legislative session would allow Texas community colleges like Lone Star College-Montgomery to offer four-year bachelor of science in nursing programs.
