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Facing pressure on enrollment, will colleges support more transfer students? EdSurge To successfully hand students off from one campus to another takes effort and resources from the colleges that students hope to transfer to: institutions…
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Time to transform transfer
The challenges surrounding two-year college students transferring to four-year institutions — accepting course credits, student advising and more — have spanned the history of community colleges. But higher education advocates think the convergence of issues…
Washington Watch: TANF changes could affect community college students
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has proposed new rules to ensure program integrity for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) state grants. The rules, proposed…
DataPoints: Veteran students
About 5% of U.S. undergraduate students are military veterans, including 5.3% of public two-year students and 3.4% of public four-year students, according to a Postsecondary National Policy Institute analysis of the National Postsecondary Student Aid…
Don’t forget military spouses
Businesses seeking a new pool of potential employees may consider one group that is significantly underemployed and unemployed: military spouses. More than one-fifth (21%) of military spouses are unemployed, according to recently released results of…
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House leaders want proposed overtime rule withdrawn Illinois community colleges launch brand campaign New Jersey colleges expand workforce centers House leaders want proposed overtime rule withdrawn Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina) and Kevin Kiley (R-California)…
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CEO on the move Tammeil Gilkerson will serve as the next chancellor of the Peralta Community College District (California), beginning in January. She is currently president of Evergreen Valley College (California), where she has worked…
Better together
Community colleges are known for navigating marginalized students along the sometimes rocky road to the workforce or a four-year university. Considering recent drops in transfer numbers, two-year institutions and four-year colleges are teaming up to…
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Higher education committee tours Lowell campuses Lowell Sun The Massachusetts legislature’s Joint Committee on Higher Education visited Middlesex Community College this week to take a look at its biotech, dental hygiene and culinary arts programs….
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Ripping each other’s throats over politics? It keeps good people from getting involved. Asbury Park Press As part of a political science course at Brookdale Community College, students are required to attend a board of…