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Community College News for January 31, 2012
 
 
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Community colleges reconsider role as state aid vanishes and enrollments skyrocket
by Stateline
Jud Hicks got the email late one evening in January. The following day, it said, the state House of Representatives would release a budget proposal cutting off all state money to four community colleges.
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Community Colleges Consider Math Options
by US News
Remedial math is a dream killer for many students, says Robyn Toman, a math professor at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland. More than 70 percent of students start—and often end—in noncredit developmental classes, she says. “Remedial math has become the largest single barrier to student advancement.”
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Community college students losing aid, leaving
by Associated Press
About 5,500 community and technical college students in Kentucky were targeted to lose financial aid this month because of new federal rules aimed at increasing student accountability.
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Ohio Chancellor wants community colleges to schedule courses in blocks
SC Palmetto College to help students with two-year degrees earn bachelor’s degrees online
Kansas community colleges try new scheduling
Baltimore City Community College unified by struggle to get off probation
Community college receives grant for minority nursing student retention program
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Canadian 2-year colleges show path to jobs
by Hechinger Report, in Washington Post
At the University of Manitoba, Angela Conrad felt it was taking forever to satisfy degree requirements with courses in women’s studies, Greek mythology and other subjects she considered impractical.
“It takes people two years, sometimes three years, to finish” Manitoba’s mandatory general-studies track, Conrad said. “It made me think there had to be a learning style that was faster and more practical than that.”
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Perspectives: Community colleges must go beyond job training
by John M. Crisp for Scripps News Service
President Barack Obama mentioned community colleges several times in his State of the Union address last week, and he acknowledged the presence of community college student, Jackie Bray, who sat next to first lady Michelle Obama in the gallery.
Bray, a single mother who had been laid off from her job as a packaging mechanic, enrolled in Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, N.C., where she acquired new skills that prepared her for her current job as a process operator for the electronics firm Siemens.
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