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• In Hard Times Students Head For Community Colleges

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  Students are flocking to two-year public colleges, which have become refuges in the recession. The schools have open enrollment for most programs, and tuitions markedly cheaper than four-year private or public institutions. Students who earn an associate’s degree at a two-year college can usually transfer the ...
  10 hours ago

• How much does it Cost to Get an Online Degree?

  
  Online Education Blog — Authority: 118
  Online education becoming the order of the day, students flock towards online educational institutions offering online degree courses of their choice. Online courses offer flexibility and convenience forbidden by on campus educational courses. When it comes to the question of cost of online degree courses, are they ...
  1 day ago

• Why do people go to the University Of Phoenix if it has a bad reputation?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 165
  My 21 year old cousin recently started going to the University Of Phoenix. From my understanding, that school has a VERY bad reputation. And not to be rude, but she’s not very bright either. We live in a large city, so she would have a huge choice of community colleges and REAL universities that offer on-campus and ...
  4 days ago

• Grant to Improve College Graduation Rates in Phoenix

  
  Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Local News and Business Directory — Authority: 438
  The City of Phoenix and Maricopa Community Colleges Receive Grant to Improve College Graduation RatesPhoenix, AZ – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National League of Cities... This is a summary of the article. For the complete article, please visit the site. Thank you http://www.evliving.com/
  4 days ago

• Community colleges in India need government funding: IGNOU

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Community colleges which are making their advent in the country need strong government funding, experts said at an interactive meeting Tuesday at the Indira Gandhi National Open University.“IGNOU has tried to expand the scope of community colleges in the country. This is an alternative system ...
  1 week ago

• Obamas Community College Plan May Need More Funding

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  President Barack Obama wants to invest some $12 billion in community colleges with the aim of seeing an additional 5 million students graduate by 2020. This goal comes while many schools are already bursting at the seams with droves of displaced workers hit by the recession competing with traditional students seeking ...
  1 week ago

• Community Colleges Pave the Way to Upward Economic Mobility

  
  Data Detectives — Authority: 424
  From Pew Charitable Trust: A report released by Pew’s Economic Mobility Project shows that community colleges are an important stepping stone for students of all backgrounds, income levels and high school achievements to improve their economic mobility prospects. Earning a community college degree boosts earnings ...
  1 week ago

• College Enrollment Hit a Record in 2008

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Almost 40 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds were enrolled in college last year, a Pew Research Center study found.
  1 week ago

• Staying Up Late For Learning At Overcrowded IHEs

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  He is a typical part-time student, with one exception. His class runs from 11:45 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., the consequence of an unprecedented enrollment spike that has Bunker Hill scrambling to accommodate hundreds of newcomers. In the dead of night, he and his classmates dissect Walt Whitman poems and learn the finer ...
  1 week ago

• New Meaning for Night Class at 2-Year Colleges

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  A late-night class on writing, ending at 2:30 a.m., at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.
  1 week ago

• City Focuses on Recession-Proof Health Care Jobs

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  City officials plan to open an employment center dedicated to training workers for and placing them in health-related jobs, aiming to help them start or advance careers.
  2 weeks ago

• The Best Community Colleges in Missouri

  
  EduBook — Authority: 499
  Community colleges can be a great way to move your career in a new direction. They’re also a great way to save money, as you can transfer to a major college after a few years taking general education courses at a community college and save big on tuition. Missouri has a host of [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Streamlined and Fuel-Efficient Three-Year Degrees

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 412
  It doesn’t seem right to compare the streamlining of higher education to the manufacturing of fuel-efficient cars, but this Newsweek article has a few good points. I’ve posted before about some schools offering a three-year degree option for qualified (super ahead of the game) college students. It makes a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Community College Offers Job Opportunities

  
  SKORCAREER — Authority: 132
  As the national unemployment rate climbs to 10 percent and shows no signs of abating anytime soon, more and more workers are having to upgrade and retrain to find jobs in an increasingly competitive job market. Dollar for dollar, community colleges offer some of the quickest, cheapest and most effective means of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Letter: A School’s Painful Decision

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  To the Editor:.
  3 weeks ago

• Minnesotas Two-Year Colleges See Biggest Enrollment Increase In History

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 436
  The high school graduate, the out-of-work and the just-plain-nervous are crowding classrooms at your local community college. Enrollment has grown by double digits at 13 community and technical colleges in Minnesota, boosting the biggest jump in the public systems history. The figures show a "strategic" response to ...
  3 weeks ago

• In addition to this award winning universities Canada has

  
  Pinchisgringos.com — Authority: 460
  In addition to this award winning universities, Canada has a wide range of post secondary school education institutions like university colleges, colleges, institutes of advanced learning and technology, college of applied arts and technology, community colleges and several others. So what ever the areas of education, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mott Haven Journal: Revisiting the Neighborhood He Escaped From

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Allen Jones, 58, now a resident of Luxembourg, visited the Patterson Houses on Wednesday.
  4 weeks ago

• $10 billion takes fiber to every school, hospital in the US

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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  4 weeks ago

• State Colleges Gasping for Air

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 139
  In light of devastating budget cuts, state college students this fall are facing teacher shortages, cancelled classes, crammed classrooms and higher tuition. My sister is enrolled in the California State University system and she was saying that some classes she needs to graduate are not being offered this fall. ...
  7 weeks ago

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