community college Index
December 04, 2008
The mortgage meltdown and resulting economic crisis has students and their families reevaluating college admission plans. Incoming students are increasingly reluctant to travel far from home, families are more reluctant to take on student-loan debt, and students are applying to more schools in hopes of larger financial aid offers. And more students are considering public universities over small private colleges.
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November 18, 2008
Last week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced its intent to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on college completion. In fact, they hope to double the number of disadvantaged students who complete college. A majority of their focus will be on community colleges. Melinda Gates said that Americans put much money into collegiate enrollment, but not nearly as much into completion.
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October 03, 2008
Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been criticized by some for her educational resume. All politics aside, Governor Palin is a higher education flip-flopper. Her educational experience touts five schools in six years. Among her public and private university experiences, Palin spent a total of three semesters in community college. Two of those semesters were spent taking general studies courses before transferring to the University of Idaho.
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September 23, 2008
Richard O'Brien wasn't sure he wanted to attend a community college. "Most of my friends were going straight to four-year schools and there is some negative stigma attached to attending community colleges," he says. After considering the pros and cons, O'Brien decided to attend Danville Area Community College and then transfer to complete his engineering degree at the University of Illinois. "I wanted to save money & play baseball for the community college team (which ended up giving me a scholarship), and sort out what I wanted to major in without getting hit with a serious financial penalty & that decided the matter for me," says O'Brien.
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September 11, 2008
Three-day weekends every week? Why not, says one community college in Cocoa, Fla. Three-day weekends can increase morale and save energy to boot. After positive feedback from students and teachers during three-day weekends in the summer of 2007, Breward Community College changed their school-year class schedule to the four-day model. It's working, they say.
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September 05, 2008
An answer to economic woes for many families has been taking "staycations" or driving less or buying generic groceries over brand names. Some have even gone so far as to encourage their children to attend community colleges this fall over four-year institutions. As a result, community college enrollment numbers are increasing across the country.Last year, 11.5 million students were enrolled at a community college. This summer, enrollment numbers shot up and fall enrollment is projected to skyrocket as well.
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June 06, 2008
The latest tussle in the illegal immigration debate takes place in North Carolina's community colleges, where student protestors, lawmakers, and taxpayers are duking it out.
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