Tag: Academic Degrees: Page 18

Community Colleges

Community College Students at a Glance

One-third of community college students who enrolled directly from high school in 2004 had no intention of going beyond earning an associate degree, but within two years 47 percent of this group raised their expectation to pursue a bachelor’s degree.

August 20, 2008

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Study: Many Americans Experience Job Opportunity Loss for Not Having Academic Degree

One recent study, highlighting the role that many believe formal education plays in the workplace, reports that almost one in five (19 percent) Americans — which amounts to roughly 40 million adults in the United States — say they know someone at their current or past job who has been passed over for a job because they didn’t have the right academic degree.

August 17, 2008

Community Colleges

NC Board to Discuss Admitting Immigrants

North Carolina community college leaders who will be meeting later this week plan to discuss whether to admit undocumented immigrants to degree programs after federal officials told the college system it was up to the state, a newspaper reported on Aug. 11.

August 12, 2008

Community Colleges

Philadelphia Program Offers Free Tuition for Community College Students Near Degree Completion

In an effort to reduce the financial pressures on current and prospective students, the city of Philadelphia and its largest public postsecondary institution has launched a new program to aid students in completing their college degree.

August 12, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Newspaper: NCCU Operated Satellite Campus

North Carolina Central University officials are trying to decide what to do with about 50 students who attended a satellite campus at a megachurch near Atlanta run by a school trustee.

August 11, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Fired Bishop State Instructor Ordered Rehired

A fired Bishop State Community College food service instructor who enrolled in his own course has been ordered rehired with back pay by an arbitrator who ruled his dismissal was unfair.

August 10, 2008

Latinx

Probe: Fed Employees May Have Bought Fake Degrees

Immigration officials are looking through a list of more than 9,000 names to see how many federal employees may have bought a phony high school or college degree from a Spokane, Wash.-based diploma mill.

August 5, 2008

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Probe: Fed Employees May Have Bought Fake Degrees

Immigration officials are looking through a list of more than 9,000 names to see how many federal employees may have bought a phony high school or college degree from a Spokane, Wash.-based diploma mill.

July 30, 2008

Students

Report Urges U.S. Colleges and Universities to Learn and Adopt From Europe’s Higher Education Accountability Reforms

While it’s far from certain whether the U.S.-based higher education accountability movement will see colleges and universities nationally instituting learning standards and other accountability measures, one Washington-based higher education policy research organization is taking a hard look at the global restructuring of higher education in recent years and determining what lessons might apply in the United States.

July 28, 2008

Students

Popular Howard Student Loses Cancer Battle

Chad Williams-Bey was among hundreds of Howard University students to drive eight hours to Cincinnati to pay homage to his dear friend, Aaron Bonner. Last week, members of the Howard community came together to remember Bonner, 24, who passed away on July 2.

July 21, 2008

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Africana Studies at Tenn. State University In Danger of Termination

Tennessee colleges and universities dealing with $56 million in cuts this year must decide which of their undergraduate programs are expendable.

July 14, 2008

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TOP 100 GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREE PRODUCERS – INTERPRETING THE DATA

Two of three U.S. citizens or permanent residents are not people of color; that is, they are non-Hispanic Caucasians.

July 9, 2008