community colleges

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The two-year grant will help the Seattle-based organization launch SkillLink, a college prepradeness program for local youth provided by partnerships of community colleges, nonprofits, and workforce boards....

The organization will use the grant to help seven community colleges in North Carolina develop occupational and technical pathways for adult students and improve their counseling capacity as well as the capacity of their youth-serving community-partners..

The commitment will enable community colleges to research and scale-up innovative programs that are designed to help under-prepared students spend less time and money catching up, and ultimately improve student retention and completion....

The grants will be used to replicate the school's Academy for College Excellence model at four additional community colleges and support a five-year study to measure the program's ongoing impact....

Community colleges have long held second-class-citizen status in the world of higher education. But they've suddenly become top tier when it comes to one important thing: training for new green-economy jobs.

President Obama wants to increase the number of students completing degrees at community colleges. But many of the 2-year schools are under stress from increasing demands and decreasing budgets due to the recession.

Tamara Keith reports.

Teenagers in suburban Dayton, Ohio, are heading to community colleges after manufacturing plants closed.