Showing posts with label Community College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Community College. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Huge Online Demand Reshapes California Community Colleges

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This story is completely accurate. I'm teaching on campus this semester, and whereas I normally have 40 students (the cap) in my Compara...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Student Debt Forgiveness Will Make the Problem Worse (VIDEO)

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Here's the beautiful Inez Feltscher Stepman (currently my crush on Twitter ), for Prager Univerity:
Thursday, April 7, 2022

Arizona State's Power Play for California's College Students

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A very interesting piece, at the Los Angeles Times , " UC and CSU deliver thousands of rejection letters. Arizona State wants to fill t...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’

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This isn't new, though indeed folks don't talk about it on campus, at all (at least at my college, and I surmise others, most others...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Massive Financial Aid Scam Hits California Community Colleges

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This is nasty scam. My division dean mentioned it last week and she sent out a long email notice to all department faculty members today. Na...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

LBCC Loses Nearly $2 Million Amid Coronavirus

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Yeah, but my college is expected to get $14 million from the Care package passed by Congress. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ At the Long Beach Press-Telegram: ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

University of California Boosts Transfer Admissions

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This is interesting. And it's very helpful for me as a professor, because with efforts by U.C. to increase transfers, and real data on...
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Monday, April 30, 2018

Our 'Cry Closet' Education System

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The University of Utah has installed a " cry closet " for students to let it all out during finals week. Funny, I don't reme...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

How to Level the College Playing Field

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This is interesting, especially for me, a community college political science professor, struggling with low student academic achievement. ...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Jay Stephens Graduated College as an 'Off-My-Lawn Conservative' (VIDEO)

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Another great video, from Prager U:
Thursday, March 23, 2017

City University of New York to Revamp Remedial Programs

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Well, good luck with that. At the New York Times, " CUNY to Revamp Remedial Programs, Hoping to Lift Graduation Rates ": 80%...
Monday, July 18, 2016

LBCC's Eloy Ortiz Oakley Selected as California Community Colleges Chancellor

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He's the president of my college, moving on to greener, more powerful pastures. At the Long Beach Press-Telegram, " BREAKING: Lon...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Vivian Malauulu Beats Incumbent Irma Archuleta in Race for LBCC District Board Election

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This is good news for my faculty union, which has been campaigning hard to elect a pro-faculty majority to the college's elected board o...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

My Buddy Tyler Featured in NBC News L.A. Tweet on Mt. Sac Bomb Threat

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Here's my buddy Tyler chilling during the bomb threat at Mt. San Antonio College. A @MtSAC professor waits in the parking lot followin...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Free Community College

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Community college isn't free. Someone has to pay for it. When I first went to Santa Ana College in 1979, I paid just $5.00 for the hea...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Colleges Reject Charge That Freshman Reading Lists Have Left-Wing Political Bias

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Actually, I don't have a problem with most of the readings cited at this piece, at the Los Angeles Times . Some of the greatest in cla...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Many California Community College Students Need 4 Years to Graduate

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At least 4 years. But see the Los Angeles Times . Yeah, it's worse, especially for minorities, " New Report Details Need to Inc...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Stunned Unions Cry Foul After Court Strikes Down Tenure Rules

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I'm not reading too much into this decision, out of Los Angeles Superior Court, striking down teacher tenure in California. The case c...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

University of California Seeks Increase in Community College Transfers

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Good luck with that. At the Long Beach Press-Telegram, " UC schools aim to enroll more community college students ." LBCC is r...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

LBCC Tiered Tuition Scheme Scam Makes Front Page at the Los Angeles Times

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As long as the State of California remains ostensibly committed to the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education any two-tiered tuition scheme&...