Obama community college proposal may not be enough

Arthur Call commutes three hours roundtrip to his anatomy class at community college because similar courses on campuses closer to his Indianapolis home are packed this semester.

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"Enrollment has been growing steadily, but this was a tidal wave for us this fall," said the college's president, Gail O. Mellow, pointing out that the student body had risen by almost 50 percent in the past decade. "I've never seen anything like this.

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The record-breaking enrollment surge at Colorado's public community colleges and four-year schools could be too much of a good thing, college leaders fear.

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Overall college attendance has been going up for about 30 years; what's new is the sharp uptick at community colleges, driven in large part by recessionary bargain hunting and closer ties between two- and four-year colleges that give students more confidence they'll be able to tr …

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As a side effect of Miami-Dade County's 11.7% unemployment, enrollment has soared at four colleges and universities here. The fall surge swept over Florida International University, Miami Dade College, St.

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Undergraduate enrollments are up 7 percent since last year across the state college and university system, and officials have moved more of their financial aid dollars into needs-based awards, the state Board of Higher Education learned at a meeting in Gardner yesterday.

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Palomar College cut 270 class sections this fall. MiraCosta College a few miles away hired 16 instructors, 11 of them new positions.

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Though many states have finally been giving community colleges their due, both in terms of public attention and -- sometimes -- funding, the report finds that this did not help many of them avoid cuts when times got tight last fiscal year.

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"This decision to admit illegal aliens to our community colleges is an affront to the people of our state who value the rule of law," said Rep. Stam.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Board of Community Colleges voted Friday to allow illegal immigrants to enroll at the two-year colleges. The board's committee voted the same way Thursday.

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Many of those workers are unemployed and eager to improve their skills or study for new careers in fields like nursing or information technology.

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Community college student Kristen Grand dreams of transferring to Cal State Long Beach so she can earn a bachelor's degree in social work and become an adoption caseworker.

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For the eighth year in a row, Mid Michigan Community College has broken a record. Although the numbers aren't yet firm, it appears that this fall's enrollment will once again eclipse last year's number -- perhaps by as much as double digits.

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Community college student Kristen Grand dreams of transferring to Cal State Long Beach so she can earn a bachelor's degree in social work and become an adoption caseworker.

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Tampa police said a woman was moving items out of her apartment into her car so she could move into another apartment. They said the man slipped into her open apartment door and hid in a vacant bathroom.

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Lothrop, 20, of South Nyack instead decided to stay close to home, save money and go to Rockland Community College. She recently graduated and is now headed to Fordham University. She plans to attend law school after that.

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Advertisement At Nashville State Community College, the lines for fall registration and financial aid stretched down the halls this week. Outside, work crews were setting up portable classrooms to handle the overflow of thousands of extra students signing up for school.

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For the first time, Wake Technical Community College exceeded all eight of the benchmarks for success the North Carolina Community College System sets for the state's 58 community colleges.

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If you visit a four-year college, you can predict what sort of student you are going to bump into. If you visit a community college, you have no idea.

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Hundreds of thousands of students are likely to be turned away from low-cost community colleges across the country over the next year because of funding cuts at the very time that record numbers of students are flocking to the open-admission schools, according to education offici …

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Nearly six months ago, my administration took office amid the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. At the time, we were losing, on average, 700,000 jobs a month. And many feared that our financial system was on the verge of collapse.

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Community colleges are deeply unsexy. This fact tends to make even the biggest advocates of these two-year schools — which educate nearly half of U.S. undergraduates — sound defensive, almost a tad whiny. "We don't have the bands.

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It is great to see community colleges finding significant increases in student enrollments because it bodes well for the global competitiveness of domestic industries.

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When LaKisha Coleman received her associate's degree at Miami Dade Community College six years ago, her best bet for a bachelor's degree seemed to be at the more expensive Florida International University.

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Two people were shot and killed Friday at a community college in Dearborn, Michigan, an official said. A man and woman were found dead in a classroom building on the campus of Henry Ford Community College, said Dearborn Fire Department Battalion Chief John Hay.

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"We would like to see a more equitable distribution of cost across all districts. Students then would all be treated fairly," said Patricia Booker, a Radnor school board member. "It's time for us to rethink the formula across the board."

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