Colorado college chiefs oppose four-year degrees in community colleges
Denver Post
University of Colorado president Bruce Benson and several other leaders of state colleges are opposing a bill that would allow community colleges to offer select four-year degree programs. In a letter to the Colorado General Assembly last month, Benson ...
Community college shopping simplifiedSan Francisco Chronicle
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As Colleges Evolve, So Must Their Presidents
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
This generation of higher-education leaders is frequently characterized as "corporate fund raisers." Now, as these baby boomers retire and a new generation replaces them, what will characterize the next leaders? I have put this question to sitting ...
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Comedy Club
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
I've been trying to figure out whether it was harder to get into college, get tenure, or get into the Friars Club. The application ... The college, which had only begun admitting women three years earlier, welcomed us with banners saying "Better Dead ...
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Fixing Financial Aid
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
In 1972, Clark Kerr was, once again, helping shape the future of American higher education. He was 61 years old, and his greatest works lay behind him. The California Master Plan for Higher Education, which he helped broker in 1960, would become the ...
In With the NewInside Higher Ed
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'Bandwidth Divide' Could Bar Some People From Online Learning
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
As more colleges rush to offer free online courses in the name of providing educational access to all, it's worth asking who might be left out for lack of high-speed Internet access to watch video lectures. Only about 66 percent of American adults have ...
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Dean Strives to Recruit Minority Scholars to Liberal-Arts Colleges
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We explained what it means to be on the faculty of liberal-arts-college campuses like ours. They told us, "Many advisers would never advise us to come there." So this has been a wonderful educational opportunity on both sides. At first we ran Liberal ...
The Employment Mismatch
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
That might come as a surprise to college leaders, who frequently cast the value of a degree in those very terms. But Julian L. Alssid, of the nonprofit Workforce Strategy Center, says that although business and higher education may use the same ...
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College degrees pay off, new study shows
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
The Pew Charitable Trust concluded that during the recession, recent college grads had a lower unemployment rate than their counterparts with only high school diplomas or associate's degrees, and the reason was largely not because they took pay cuts or ...
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APSCU Report Highlights Best Practices for Serving Veterans
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
A group of for-profit institution leaders and military program directors called the Blue Ribbon Taskforce identified, discussed and documented the most effective postsecondary education practices for this very unique demographic group of students ...
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College degrees pay off, new study shows
The Macomb Daily
The Pew Charitable Trust concluded that during the recession, recent college grads had a lower unemployment rate than their counterparts with only high school diplomas or associate's degrees, and the reason was largely not because they took pay cuts or ...
