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Bigger portion of the paycheck: Students from families who earn $30,000 or less a year use at least half of that income to cover the average net cost of a public two-year college. (Read full…
Campus Issues
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Back to the starting line on regulating for-profit colleges NPR The American Association of Community Colleges argues that the cost of compliance with gainful employment has been burdensome for many public two-year institutions. Community colleges…
Money woes prompt Ore. to alter Promise program
The Oregon Promise may not be kept for students from wealthier families. Associated PressCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.More Posts
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Grant program boosts workforce training at Virginia community colleges WRIC In the last year, Virginia community colleges provided workforce training to 4,268 people who secured credentials, certifications and licenses. Community colleges plan to fill workforce…
Focused on collaborating
Coordination between two- and four-year institutions is critical to ensure that students who complete an associate degree move through a pipeline to transfer and succeed at the next level of their education, according to Sandra…
Little love for gainful employment
Federal gainful employment (GE) regulations were largely designed to ensure that for-profit institutions were not burdening students with loans that they could not repay, given their educational experiences and other factors. Daily StaffCCDaily is published…
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Support grows for major shift in Pell Inside Higher Ed Bipartisan support builds for expanding Pell Grant eligibility to short-term certificates, although some experts worry about quality control and funding. Foxconn forces Wisconsin to confront…
Industrial-strength partnership
At 19, Dalton Sasin’s wizardry with a welding wand is taking him places. This month, he begins a 20-week specialized welding training program in Port Arthur with Cheniere Energy, who recruited him right out of…
Funding roundup
Delgado Community College (DCC) will award 23 African-American women scholarships thanks to a $198,000 grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation. Each of the women will receive $2,100 a semester for two years through the Coca-Cola First…
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Earning a 2-year degree while serving a 6-year sentence NPR Because of a pilot program introduced by the Obama administration in 2015, inmates across the country have access to federal Pell grants to take college…