Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This increase marks the largest two-year jump in educational attainment since the project began in 2008, when the share of working-age adults with a degree was only 37.9 Among other policy solutions, she believes the federal government should invest in resources that help students afford and complete college, such as doubling the Pell Grant.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. Community Colleges The Hechinger Report, a higher ed news source not given to hyperbole or scare headlines, recently posted an alarming article entitled : “‘The reckoning is here’: More than a third of community college students have vanished.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

Postsecondary institutions whose mission and operations are optimized to educate, train and credential learners—community colleges, land-grant institutions, comprehensive regional public universities, HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions come to mind—should get more public money. percent of households.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

” Christine Price, program coordinator for the Skills, Training and Education for Personal Success (STEPS) program at Austin Community College in Texas, said she gets phone calls from people wanting to know if STEPS is a “real college” program. “I also think it would help with students getting a job.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Another example is that wealthy colleges and universities could guarantee the bond issues of selected nonwealthy colleges, particularly historically Black colleges and universities, and lower their underwriting costs in bond markets. During the Great Recession of 2008–09, Harvard raised liquid funds by issuing $2.5

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University Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

“Community colleges are highly sensitive to changes in the macroeconomy,” he says. “If we go into a deep recession with increased unemployment, we’ll see more people going to community colleges to upskill and pursue new opportunities in the workforce.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield, managing director of policy and research at Higher Learning Advocates, a bipartisan nonprofit that works to improve outcomes for students, said the federal government is lagging behind state leaders, who already have been talking about how to define a high-quality postsecondary program.

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