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Students

Report Urges Better Preparation, More Active Recruitment of Community College Leaders

National community college leaders joined Aspen Institute and the Achieving the Dream organization officials to urge major improvements in how two-year college presidents are recruited, prepared, hired and evaluated.

June 24, 2013

Community Colleges

Community College of Baltimore County Opens New Extension Center

The Community College of Baltimore County is opening a new extension center in Owings Mills.

June 18, 2013

Home

ETS Launches Electronic Certificates for Learning Assessment Exams

The Education Testing Service announced Monday that it has begun providing electronic certificates to test takers documenting their performance on the ETS Proficiency Profile and iSkills tests.

June 17, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Illinois University Employees Offer Partial Pension Fix

Illinois university employees would pay more toward their pensions and receive annual retirement-pay increases tied to inflation in a reform plan the Senate president supports, a spokeswoman said Sunday.

June 16, 2013

Students

Alabama A&M, J.F. Drake Reach Reverse Transfer Credit Agreement

The schools have entered into a reverse transfer credit agreement to enable Alabama A&M students who attended J.F. Drake to earn associate degrees.

June 13, 2013

Students

MOOCs Morphing Into a Path for College Preparation

The use of Massive Open Online Courses for high school dual enrollment programs and general access to college-level material is seen as potentially huge educational benefit.

June 2, 2013

Students

Higher Ed Systems in 10 States Turn to Coursera

The movement of “Massive Open Online Courses,” which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly moving into the trenches of public higher education.

May 30, 2013

Faculty & Staff

MOOCs Viable for Community Colleges, Officials Say

In a webinar titled “MOOCs and the Completion Agenda: Lessons in Learning, Assessment and Application,” two community college leaders offered unique visions on how MOOCs could help two-year schools improve student learning experiences.

May 28, 2013

Community Colleges

GOP: In-State Tuition for Students Voting in Ohio

Ohio Republicans want to force universities to offer in-state tuition to out-of-state students who request documents from the schools in order to register to vote in Ohio.

May 16, 2013

Sports

Education Leaders Convene for The Atlantic’s Technologies in Education Forum

Education experts explore how the latest education innovations can successfully be interjected into the classroom to prepare students for the workforce.

May 15, 2013

Faculty & Staff

USC Announces $70 Million Gift by Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine

University of Southern California says Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, and Jimmy Iovine are donating $70 million to establish the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation.

May 15, 2013

Community Colleges

Drug Abuse Issue Not Going Away Anytime Soon

While programs and money help, many of us in the old school believe that drug education really starts at home.

May 13, 2013