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Putting the Heat on Campus Leaders About the Cold
Mar 17, 2023
City College of San Francisco students, faculty and staff members are fed up with cold classrooms. Trustees called on administrators to address long-neglected maintenance issues and aging heating systems after some campus buildings went months without heat.

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A Quashed Pay Cut Continues to Create Tensions
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Transfers From Community College Continue to Fall
Students spill out onto Janss Steps on the UCLA campus.
Pressure to Admit Transfers
IBM Looks Beyond the College Degree
Oct 29, 2019
The tech company is looking for different ways to fill “new-collar” jobs in its 360,000-employee workforce by adding digital badges and apprenticeships and deepening partnerships with community colleges.

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Clarifying a Muddled Career Training Landscape
Online and Out of State
Scenes From Innovations 2019

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Survey on student transfer finds both progress and finger pointing

Student transfer is an increasing priority for officials at two- and four-year colleges alike, but they blame each other for flaws in the process. Experts want them to focus on the students' needs.

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"Guiding Students to Success at Community Colleges" is Inside Higher Ed's new print-on-demand compilation of articles.

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Community college leaders must defend DEI (opinion)
April 4, 2023
Community college leaders can’t sit on the sidelines, for three important reasons, Steve Robinson writes.
City College of San Francisco struggles to heat classrooms
March 17, 2023
City College of San Francisco students, faculty and staff members are fed up with cold classrooms. Trustees called on administrators to address long-neglected maintenance issues and aging heating systems after some campus buildings went months without heat.
Back-and-forth over faculty agreement divisive at Maricopa
March 14, 2023
A draft of a faculty agreement for the Maricopa Community Colleges proposed reducing pay for one group of faculty members to bring their wages in line with others. The final version mostly nixed the pay cut, but critics are still concerned.
Upward transfers still declining
March 9, 2023
Despite the decline in transfers, a new report also says six-year college completion rates among transfer students improved.
California governor wants a guaranteed transfer path to UCLA
March 8, 2023
California governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget puts funding for UCLA on the line if the highly selective university doesn’t create a guaranteed transfer pathway for community college students. The proposal was met with mixed reactions.
Report: Colleges face disincentives to improving transfer
February 24, 2023
A new white paper suggests colleges need more and better financial incentives to improve transfer processes.
California Community Colleges await a new chancellor
February 21, 2023
The California Community College system is on the verge of announcing a new chancellor. 
Dual enrollment can be costly for community colleges
February 16, 2023
A new analysis shows dual-enrollment programs can be costly for community colleges—unless they’re carefully designed.
Outrage follows Florida college presidents' statement on CRT
February 3, 2023
Florida College System presidents signed a statement promising not to support any effort that “compels belief” in critical race theory on their campuses. That prompted a deluge of criticism and, in some quarters, a little sympathy.
Community colleges' positive, pervasive digital leap
February 1, 2023
From rural New Hampshire to urban Miami, community college students, faculty and administrators are broadly enthusiastic about digital learning options, according to a new report.

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Interview with IBM official about the company's 'new-collar' push to look beyond college degrees
October 29, 2019

The tech company is looking for different ways to fill “new-collar” jobs in its 360,000-employee workforce by adding digital badges and apprenticeships and deepening partnerships with community colleges.

Newest player in career upskilling world will curate community colleges' online offerings
October 16, 2019

The newest entity to try to close the skills gap for "working learners" will focus on curating community colleges' online offerings.

Ohio community college raises questions by enrolling large numbers of non-Ohio students
June 26, 2019

Ohio's Eastern Gateway Community College draws scrutiny from lawmakers for working with an OPM to rapidly grow online enrollment of out-of-state students.

League for Innovation conference explores systematizing change, open education, driving faculty innovation
February 27, 2019

The conference on community college transformation features discussions of bringing about systemic change, the promise of open education and the right and wrong ways to get faculty buy-in.

Debate over graduation rates at Rio Salado, the largely online community college
May 9, 2018

The mostly online Rio Salado College pushes back on a critique of its graduation rates, while nonprofit colleges may be feeling more heat about their results amid the collapse of for-profits.

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