News: Online Ed Trends at Community Colleges - Inside Higher Ed

The number of community colleges offering online or hybrid courses goes up, and quality evaluation, faculty training, and assessment continue to be the primary challenges: News: Online Ed Trends at Community Colleges - Inside Higher Ed

Student Success: ATE Program Report

The National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program issues a report on goals in various technological education programs. The report spotlights ideas of how to measure student success suggested in forum sessions at last fall's annual principal investigators' meeting. Most of the outcomes focus on completion rates, reports of student success on the job through contacts on social networks or hiring data from employers, a focus on industry standards, and forms of student assessment, such as results on certification and credentialing exams, program portfolios, and pre-post tests of student employability.

Personal attention boosts college success rates

An article from the Community College Times underscores the importance of personal attention around academics and financial aid in improving students' success rates: Personal attention boosts college success rates

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

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%?

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.

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