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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation helps 4-year colleges recruit the brightest community-college students

Alamance Community College, in Graham, N.C., and the flagship campus of the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, are only 20 miles apart. But sometimes it seems as if they are in separate universes.

Despite the two institutions' proximity, last fall only 19 Alamance students transferred to Chapel Hill — one of the nation's most selective public

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