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Community Colleges

Gates Foundation Seeks College Success Technology

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is offering up to $20 million in grants to attract new technology aimed at helping students get a college degree.

October 11, 2010

Students

Hispanic Scholarship Fund Launches “Generation 1st Degree” Campaign

The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) organization on Tuesday convened its Education Summit 2010 in New York and launched the ‘Generation 1st Degree’ program, which aims to fulfill the fund’s goal of helping Hispanic families attain a college degree in every household.

October 5, 2010

Leadership & Policy

White House Hosts First Summit on Community Colleges

Community college advocates and leaders leave summit with new partners and ideas for strengthening programs and increasing graduation rates.

October 5, 2010

Home

Latest Gates Foundation Awards Focus on College Completion

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to make a dramatic change with its college success programs, by focusing on college graduation rates in addition to college enrollment.

September 28, 2010

Home

Historian Gordon-Reed Named MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius Grant’ Recipient

Acclaimed historian and law professor Annette Gordon-Reed is among 23 winners of MacArthur fellowships, announced Monday by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

September 27, 2010

Students

Latino College Completion Campaign Moves Forward With Collaboration Strategy

Excelencia in Education spearheads collaboration among advocacy groups to improve Hispanic college attendance and graduation rates.

September 27, 2010

Students

Black Caucus Foundation Scholarships Went to People Tied to Ga. Lawmaker

The controversy over Rep. Sanford Bishop’s decision to award scholarships to his relatives has expanded as four more students tied to the south Georgia Democrat have acknowledged receiving them as well.

September 26, 2010

Latinx

Future Scholars Program Guides Tucson 5th Graders to College

Aida Garcia-Iniguez-Madero’s Tucson fifth-graders learned recently that planning for college now is as important as learning fractions and proper grammar.

September 22, 2010

Community Colleges

Lumina Foundation Says US Continues to Lag Globally in Producing College Graduates

The United States continues to fall behind other major nations around the world in producing highly credentialed college graduates, despite a marginal gain between 2007 and 2008, says a new report by the Lumina Foundation for Education.

September 20, 2010

Students

Foundation Highlights Practices for Getting Community College Students Into Selective Four-Year Schools

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has released “Partnerships that Promote Success: The Evaluation of the Community College Transfer Initiative,” a study of successful programs that have assisted talented lower‐income community college students in transferring to selective institutions.

September 16, 2010

African-American

National Science Board Report Calls for Equity, Excellence and Opportunity in STEM

The United States’ ability to be not just a global leader but even a competitive participant in technology will depend largely on a massive infusion of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.

September 15, 2010

African-American

Georgia Rep. Bishop Awarded Scholarships to Family

A Georgia congressman awarded his stepdaughter, a niece and an aide’s future wife college scholarships through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, making him the second House Democrat known to use the group to steer money to relatives and associates.

September 12, 2010