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Next on College Completion Agenda: Equity
Community colleges are realizing that addressing racial and income equity are the missing pieces to improving completion rates. And Achieving the Dream wants to help them eliminate that inequity.
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Advice for the Community College Scholar
Sean Gerrity suggests five steps to take to maintain an active research agenda.
Getting Clearer Signals From Employers
As employers admit they need to give clearer signals about needed job skills, a broad U.S. Chamber-led group seeks to use standardization and technology to better align credentialing and work-force data.
Strength in Smaller Numbers?
Experts worry college closings hurt the overall ecosystem more than they help competitors. Past examples show enrollment boosts can be small after a nearby college shuts down, but some institutions can still strengthen themselves with savvy moves.
Consolidation and Completion Gains
Merger between a low-performing community college and a nearby university has increased graduation and transfer rates -- and could be a model for other colleges.
Fighting the Stigma About Community Colleges
One president's thesis: to recruit more students straight from high school, it's time to admit that there's an image problem. New data show the stigma issue is real among high school counselors.
What Community College Students Say Impedes Their Progress
A new survey finds they believe too much work and too little money keep them from graduating. But they also cite problems with online education and parking.
22 Years, 1 Phone Call
AAUP report says Nunez CC fired a longtime professor of English when he asked too many questions about how it would meet reaccreditation requirements on assessment.