New This Week
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Community-College Study Asks: What Helps Students Graduate?
The Center for Community College Student Engagement is seeking to identify practices that work, and help colleges expand them to cover all students.
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Obama Aims to Make Colleges Cut Costs
And that has higher-education lobbyists and leaders wondering what, exactly, that will mean.
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Tools for Living
Increasingly, students see the value in not just a sophisticated understanding of the world's problems but also the practical know-how to find sustainable solutions.
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Job Training in Aerospace Takes Flight at Community College in Washington
Students who pass an intensive course at Edmonds Community College get an automatic interview with the Boeing Company, a deal that has proved beneficial.
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Adjunct Professors Often Lack Training in How to Handle Disabilities in the Classroom, Experts Say
A part-time instructor's response to a student who stuttered has raised concerns about how and when adjuncts should be taught to deal with students with disabilities.
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Community-College Students Perform Worse Online Than Face to Face
Among students who took courses online, those with the most Web-based credits were least likely to graduate or transfer to a four-year institution, a study found.
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California Community-College Leaders to Recommend One Million New Graduates by 2020
The ambitious pledge seeks to contribute toward President Obama's goal of an additional five million community-college graduates in the next decade.
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Accreditor of California Colleges Lacks Conflict Protections, Federal Review Says
The two-year-college system had lodged complaints about the accrediting group, saying it was too quick to punish institutions.
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Departing UVa President Will Join Community-College Foundation's Board
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We Need a New Interview Script
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