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Where credit is due: High school student success at community colleges Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (blog) To better understand high school degree-seeking student pathways, the Richmond Fed worked with two community college systems —…
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Don’t just tell students to advocate. Teach them how.
Community colleges have long been engines of opportunity. Every day, they prepare students to become nurses, teachers, entrepreneurs, engineers, public servants and business leaders. Yet colleges do something else that deserves equal attention. They prepare…
Colleges responsible for aid disbursed to fraudulent applicants
Colleges are on the hook for federal aid distributed to fraudulent applicants, according to the Education Department (ED). In a July 17 document that answers questions related to its new real-time FAFSA fraud detection initiative,…
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Facing political attack and falling enrollment, colleges take the fight to … each other Hechinger Report Competition is intensifying among institutions and recruiters for a dwindling pool of students. But, AACC President and CEO DeRionne…
Survey shows public’s strong views on two-year colleges
A new national survey finds that two-year colleges receive higher positive ratings than four-year institutions on six of seven attributes measured, from access to workforce preparation. Traditionally, community colleges have done better in public opinion…
Community colleges beat student outcome predictions. Now Texas can’t afford related incentives.
Three years after Texas reinvented how community colleges earn state funding to reward them for getting more students to graduation, the schools are delivering. But the colleges are short the millions they planned to receive…
18 colleges join Metallica’s workforce initiative
Eighteen community colleges are joining a popular workforce development program funded by the foundation of the rock band Metallica. All Within My Hands (AWMH) recently announced the eighth year of its Metallica Scholars Initiative (MSI)…
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New data shows how California’s Black-Serving Institutions are performing Inside Higher Ed The state added the BSI designation two years ago. Now, new research reveals heartening numbers on Black student attainment, as well as some…
Quick shifts, promising results
A new report highlights how community colleges can quickly increase enrollment in “high-value programs” that lead to good jobs and decrease enrollment in “low-opportunity” programs that don’t. The report from the Community College Research Center…
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Making guided pathways work: How one community college scaled up and improved its approach Chronicle of Higher Education North Carolina’s Stanly Community College hired one part-time employee to try something new: one-to-one professional advising for…