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Not too long ago Dr. Paul J. Gianini was savoring retirement after a celebrated 16-year stint as president of Valencia Community College in Orlando, Fla. But he recently chose a [...]

Almost every two-year college seems to have them. On a billboard or the side of a bus, or maybe just on the college's Web site, the faces of archetypal community [...]

NEVADA, Texas -- Community Middle School technology teacher Aimee Bartis was selected last June by her colleagues as teacher of the year. That Bartis received the honor was no surprise [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- It's the kind of break Cinderella dreamed of--a chance to step out from behind the long shadows of her overindulged stepsisters, to gain more control over her [...]

WASHINGTON -- Misperceptions and a lack of coordination between community colleges and four-year institutions combine to create significant obstacles to baccalaureate degrees for two-year students, according to a report that [...]

Clayton Tatro believes the doctorate in community college leadership he's working on is already paying off, but will pay even bigger dividends down the road. For now, he says, the [...]

If you have 50 square feet of land and you're building a 4-foot-wide, 6-inch-thick concrete walkway around its perimeter, how much concrete will you need? Why are balloons filled with [...]

When he first walked onto a junior college campus in the early 1950s, Dr. George A. Baker III was a typical student. He worked in the classroom and in campus [...]

Survey Will Allow Students to Evaluate Community College Performance AUSTIN, Texas -- Community college leaders, grapling with increasing calls for accountability, will attempt to gauge levels of student participation in [...]

Change has marked much of St. Petersburg Junior College's 74-year history. From its beginnings as a private college, it went on to serve the nation's training needs during World War [...]

As State Budgets Shrink, Some Two-Year Colleges Take the Worst Fiscal Beating CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA -- Community college students in Iowa will be welcomed back to classes next fall by [...]

JOLIET, Ill. -- It harbors no ivy-covered walls or time-honored rituals. Its students are rarely reminded of the spirit of its founders or taught to revere the scholars of the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Students set on selecting a college have long turned to course catalogues, campus tours and the recommendations of satisfied students for a snapshot of academic offerings. More recently, [...]

WASHINGTON -- With their loyalty among students well established, Cliffsnotes are being revised to combat their long-standing reputation as cheat sheets and to earn the approval of college professors and [...]

WASHINGTON -- Community colleges can play a key role in setting more women and minority students on the path toward careers in science, engineering and technology, and in easing the [...]

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Lottery proponents hit the jackpot in South Carolina on Election Day as voters approved a state lottery to fund education programs, including college scholarships. It was a [...]

JOLIET, Ill. -- When Rich McNeil left life in the business world to teach at Illinois' Joliet Junior College, his first challenge was to keep his students' attention during long [...]

They may be working harder to do well in their coursework, but the community college students at greatest academic risk are less likely than others to get the boost they [...]

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Mesa State College began straying from its original community college mission years ago, when it dropped the 'community' designation from its name in 1980 and became [...]

Boise, Idaho -- The Boise metropolitan area is home to more than 40 percent of the Gem State's population. But the half a million people in the 10 counties in [...]

The nation's large, urban community colleges may be getting a bum deal under standard finance practices, according to a working paper released by the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute last [...]

The accessibility and affordability of the nation's two-year institutions have helped make them the primary entryway to higher education for more than half of Latino enrollees. Due in large part [...]

BISMARCK, N.D. -- With traditional tribal blessings and patriotic songs, officials and students of the United Tribes Technical College broke ground for a new wellness center last month that will [...]

WASHINGTON -- The nation's colleges and universities must create new and more responsive ways to hold themselves accountable for student success, says a commission of higher-education officials and policy experts. [...]

A community-college campus may not seem like the prime training ground for a combat mission, but Dan Hickman realized fairly early in his year-long tour in Iraq that his years [...]

North Carolina Gov. Michael F. Easley gave his state's 58 community colleges a resounding voice of support last month during his State of the State address. His speech included proposed [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas higher-education system is enrolling more students than ever before, but the numbers still fall short of the state's expectations for ushering more students, particularly Hispanics, [...]

Women have gained ground in education over the last decade and now represent a majority of college students and college graduates, with many of the gains attributed to a growing [...]

Oregon has built an efficient and effective system for providing adult-literacy and education services by housing such programs almost exclusively at the state's 17 community colleges and providing state guidance [...]

DENVER -- Colorado's community and technical colleges, as well as state four-year institutions, will see dramatic changes in how they administer their programs and report their progress, under sweeping new [...]

WASHINGTON -- Pinching pennies early for college and investing in state-sponsored savings plans may actually result in a net loss for students, considering the financial aid reductions that may result, [...]

WASHINGTON -- Its slogan epitomizes the drive possessed by many community-college students: 'Think Big, Work Hard, Achieve.' So it is perhaps fitting that the foundation promoting those ideals has chosen [...]

As South Carolina looks to new economic development strategies to solve its fiscal woes, technical colleges must become more strategic and effective in training the skilled work force needed to [...]

WASHINGTON -- Despite receiving thousands of letters and e-mail messages in support of the Educational Resources Information Center clearinghouses on community colleges and 15 other subjects, the U.S. Department of [...]

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A new national curriculum survey finds that high-school teachers may be partly responsible for the lackluster language skills of incoming college freshmen. Preliminary results of the [...]

NEW YORK -- Community colleges are beginning to make progress in retooling basic-skills education to make it more effective in preparing students for a quick transition into careers or further [...]

BELMONT, Mass. -- As the nation braces for an unprecedented shortage of qualified teachers, education officials and policymakers are being urged again to tap the community colleges' potential for attracting [...]

NEW YORK -- Although community colleges have come a long way in preparing workers for a rapidly evolving workplace, they are still not doing enough to put individuals on a [...]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Amid a nearly $12 billion budget shortfall, California's 108 community colleges are stated to reap a big gain in state funding under a proposal by Gov. Gray [...]

WASHINGTON -- The promise of an American education drew a record number of international students to the nation's community colleges and universities last year, according to a report released last [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A continued economic improvement and rising state revenues aren't likely to translate into increased funding for higher education, a new report warns. While prospects for improved [...]

In the wake of record job losses in North Carolina's once famed manufacturing sector, a 50-year-old training program that uses the programs and services of the state's 58 community colleges [...]

WASHINGTON -- As key providers of adult--and developmental-education services, the nation's community colleges can improve programs for their students by collaborating in those areas where their work and their clients [...]

WASHINGTON -- The nation's community colleges are a critical link to success for many of the nation's immigrants, particularly those learning English. But better coordination between programs targeted for the [...]

Manatee Community College may again have a campus newspaper, following several contentious months during which administrators shut the publication down after an article critical of the student government's spending was [...]

WASHINGTON -- Dubbing the 1990s the 'Decade of the Community College,' a new report from the American Council on Education says public two-year colleges saw a bigger enrollment boom during [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- A bill working its way through the California legislature could streamline campus-construction projects for the state's 109 community colleges, just as they are preparing to pump [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- The results of a recent survey of community-college students are expected to offer the nation's two-year colleges insight into how successful their academic programs have been, and [...]

MIAMI -- A select group of faculty members from Miami-Dade Community College will spend their summer vacation teaching technology and other courses to students in the Dominican Republic under an [...]

WASHINGTON -- The nation's community colleges continued their role as a primary means of opportunity for minority students looking to pursue higher education, according to an annual study of postsecondary [...]