Posts Tagged ‘community colleges’
New Chiefs of NH Community Colleges, Connecticut Regents, COA, Maine Think Tank
by John O. Harney
August 23, 2011
J. Bonnie Newman, the former interim president of the University of New Hampshire, was named interim chancellor of the New Hampshire Community College System, succeeding Richard Gustafson, who is retiring as chancellor of the seven-campus system. Newman was executive dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, an assistant to President George H.W. Bush, president ...
Read MoreTags: College of the Atlantic, Comings and Goings, community colleges, interim, J. Bonnie Newman, Judd Gregg, Kennedy, Maine Center for Economic Policy, New Hampshire, UMaine, World Wildlife Fund | No Comments
Despite Bad Press and Financial Hits, For-Profit Colleges Could Be Key Source of Transfers
by Darrell P. Aaron
February 5, 2011
In a recent article in Inside Higher Education, transfer expert Marc Cutright of the University of North Texas writes about the growing importance that four-year colleges and universities should place on students transferring from community college. Public colleges, led by community colleges, grant more than a half million associate degrees annually and the number grew ...
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College Attainment: Throwing a Complete Game
by Stan Jones and David Soo
July 26, 2010
The U.S. once had the world’s highest percentage of adults with a college degree, but has now dropped to 10th, according to the OECD. In an attempt to reverse this slide, a number of policymakers and foundations have sought to make increased degree attainment a national priority. President Obama has articulated the goal that America ...
Read MoreTags: American Community Survey, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, community colleges, Complete College America, David Soo, degree attainment, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Lumina Foundation, Stan Jones, The New England Journal of Higher Education, U.S. Department of Education | No Comments
Are We Ready for Charter Colleges?
by Jane Sjogren and James Fay
June 4, 2010
Editor’s Note: The Summer 2000 issue of Connection, NEJHE’s predecessor, included a series of pieces headlined “Charter Colleges: Evolution of a Plan,” exploring whether public colleges could operate more efficiently and produce higher quality educational results if they were freed from the controls imposed by state bureaucracies.
Community colleges are under increasing pressure today from a ...
Read MoreTags: assessment, Center for Educational Reform, charter schools, community colleges, James Fay, Jane Sjogren, University of California | No Comments
Grad Rates Don’t Tell Full Story of Community College Performance
by John J. Sbrega
March 6, 2012
Anyone who fixates on graduation rates has little understanding not only of the rich mission and value of our community colleges, but also how deeply flawed and inadequate those rates are as a principal assessment tool for the performance of community colleges.
Graduation rate calculations apply to a small fraction of our entire student population (about ...
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