Tag: Academic Degrees: Page 12

Community Colleges

Community College Experts Urge Greater Collaboration To Boost Completion Rates

A policy symposium was convened to help bring attention to the role that community colleges are playing to fulfill the Obama Administration’s goal of producing the most college-educated workforce in the world by 2020.

April 27, 2011

Faculty & Staff

Online Education Made Possible With College, Management Firm Partnerships

For schools and the online learning management companies that serve them, offering full-degree online programs is more than just an academic pursuit.

April 19, 2011

Community Colleges

Report Suggests Associate’s Degrees in Nursing Are Sufficient for Employment in the Field

AACC report finds no significant differences between competencies of nurses with bachelor’s degrees vs those with associate’s degrees.

April 4, 2011

Community Colleges

Community College Programs Key to Solving Nursing Shortage

New Policy Brief underscores similar competencies among 2-Year, 4-year graduates.

March 28, 2011

Students

Georgia Tech Sees ‘Room for Progress’ After Half Century of Integration

Fifty years after its integration, Georgia Tech recommits itself to providing institutional access to underserved students.

February 16, 2011

Latinx

Federal Postsecondary Education Leader Urges Unity on College Completion Message

The many constituencies comprising U.S. higher education should come together to “speak with one voice” to the rest of this country, says Dr. Eduardo Ochoa, assistant secretary for postsecondary education.

January 31, 2011

Students

Mississippi Governor Juggles White House Hopes, State’s Past

Haley Barbour’s latest efforts to talk about civil rights and race have seen improvement, a sign that the Mississippi governor knows that if he is to carry his party’s 2012 banner against the nation’s first African-American president, he will have to be more forthright about Mississippi’s troubled history, experts say.

January 30, 2011

Community Colleges

Postsecondary Certificate Programs Can Offer Upward Mobility and Help Meet 2020 Goal, Report Says

Certificate programs could go a long way in helping American higher education meet President Barack Obama’s 2020 goal to significantly increase the number of students earning postsecondary credentials, a new report says.

December 7, 2010

Students

Perspectives: When College is a Means to an End

How do you reach college students who are only enrolled to develop marketable skills rather than critical-thinking skills?

November 30, 2010

Students

Conveying the Black College Experience into Distance Learning

With HBCUsOnline.com, radio personality Tom Joyner ventures into ‘expanding the voice’ of HBCUs by targeting growing contingent of nontraditional students.

November 3, 2010

African-American

Perspectives: Affirmative Action May be Needed — for Men

Anti-affirmative action initiatives such as the referendum before Arizona voters on Tuesday may prove harmful to men if universities cannot rely on that tool to achieve gender diversity.

October 31, 2010

Students

Forum: Reaching 2020 Degree Completion Goal May Require Multi-State Approach and Credit for Prior Learning

At a Center for American Progress forum Thursday, U.S. Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter pinpointed the challenges that education leaders and advocates must overcome to successfully boost in 10 years the proportion of students who complete college from 42 percent to 60 percent.

October 28, 2010