President Barack Obama’s latest education initiative is #FreeCommunityCollege for American students, but it brings up the question, will it make a concrete impact on the higher education landscape? At the Brookings Institution, Maryland community college…
Topic: community colleges
Teepee Art Deemed Offensive at Santa Barbara
At Santa Barbara City College, an art display of a teepee was deemed offensive by local Native American students. So, the display was pulled.
More Latinos in Community Colleges than Others, Report finds
Other findings were that 18% of Latino students were learning English as a second language and made strides in earning an associate’s degree via community colleges.
Quick Hits: Community College Grad Rates
Via Columbia University’s Community College Research Center: “According to a recent study by the National Student Clearinghouse, 15 percent of students who started at two-year institutions in 2006 completed a degree at a four-year institution…
41% of North Carolina Community College Students Graduate in 6 Years
This is not a lie, but a real statistic. That is barely 4 in 10 community college students earning a two-year associate’s degree in 6 years. That isn’t good enough. The worst part is that…
Community College is an Expensive Freebie
It’s one thing for conservative pundits to question the Obama Administration’s latest higher education subsidy. It’s quite another for a writer in The Atlantic to start asking inconvenient questions. “President Obama wants to provide free…
Colleges Slow to Adjust to New Norm of Part-Time Students
Universities and colleges are slow to adjust to the new student: one who isn’t full-time and living on-campus, but the adult, working college student. At an event held by the libertarian think tank Cato Institute,…