Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Making Community Colleges Friendly to Laid-off Baby Boomers
Several community colleges are participating in an initiative to make midlife, post-layoff retraining more palatable: Welcoming Baby Boomers on Campus
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Student Learning Not in the Community College Rankings
Efforts to rank the top 10 percent of 1,200 community colleges based on a federal data have drawn criticism since they are not based on direct measures of student learning and they depress the status of "transfer focused" colleges: Whose Top 10%?
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
So Far, So Good for Trial Measures - Inside Higher Ed
A discussion on the American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC) Voluntary Framework for Accountability So Far, So Good for Trial Measures - Inside Higher Ed reveals that colleges find it useful, but challenging to collect the data.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
News: Retrieving the Dream - Inside Higher Ed
The Lumina Foundation supports a renewed focus on faculty, including part-timers, to improve developmental education success. See article here: News: Retrieving the Dream - Inside Higher Ed
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