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Several veterans of international education have started a new membership organization that will seek to help community colleges become more globally focused. The Center for Global Advancement of Community Colleges will work with two-year institutions to recruit more students from overseas and to build greater recognition of the American community-college system abroad. Read the full article in the...
READ · May 18
The Wall Street Journal (4/21, Banchero) reports that officials attending the annual meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges signed a "call to action" in which they pledged to raise graduation rates to above the 50% mark over the next ten years. They also pledged to increase students' workforce readiness. The Journal quotes Susan Traiman, the public-policy...
READ · Apr 21
On March 25, Congress cleared H.R. 4872, the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010. It is expected to be signed into law by President Obama on March 30. While much of this bill (and the attention surrounding it) was focused on health care, there were education provisions included. Many of the education-related provisions mirror...
READ · Mar 29
Congress has just released the reconciliation bill that contains the health care reform package and student loan reform legislation, and there is exciting news for community colleges. (The bill can be found at http://rules.house.gov/bills_details.aspx?NewsID=4606 and Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Millers summary is at http://edlabor.house.gov/newsroom/2010/03/miller-health-care-bill-will-i.shtml) The student loan reform bill which had been called the Student...
READ · Mar 19
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