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