Community Colleges

Community Colleges
City College students stand with their arms crossed behind their classroom desks, wearing puffy jackets and masks to a night class.
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.
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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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.

A copy of the booklet is available for download here, free.

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This compilation was made possible in part by the support of Ellucian.

 

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April 4, 2023
Community college leaders can’t sit on the sidelines, for three important reasons, Steve Robinson writes.
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.
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.
March 9, 2023
Despite the decline in transfers, a new report also says six-year college completion rates among transfer students improved.
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.
February 24, 2023
A new white paper suggests colleges need more and better financial incentives to improve transfer processes.
February 21, 2023
The California Community College system is on the verge of announcing a new chancellor. 
February 16, 2023
A new analysis shows dual-enrollment programs can be costly for community colleges—unless they’re carefully designed.
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.
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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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.

October 16, 2019

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

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.

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.

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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