Community Colleges in a sentence

The Coalition and several community colleges, including City College, have been lawmakers to shift from lease-revenue bonds issued by community colleges to state-issued lease-revenue bonds.

Of all college undergraduates, community colleges enroll 36% of first-time freshmen, more than half of Native American students, 48% of Hispanic students and 39% of Black students (Source: American Association of Community Colleges).

Our community colleges are on the forefront of training workers for the mid-range skill level job market that is in high demand, so minimizing the impact to our community colleges is an important goal for the House.

For Native American students, freshman enrollment at public, four-year colleges is down 22%; at community colleges, it’s fallen by almost 30%.

The Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grants, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminstration, are available to public and private colleges as well as community colleges.

Community colleges are fundamental to creating diverse and successful student bodies at colleges in California.

Community colleges would have drawn from the same city coffers that were funding the senior colleges, and city higher education officials were of the view that the state should finance them.

The Mandeville native performed at eight community colleges around the state, including Baton Rouge Community College, to promote post-secondary education.

Following passage, they enter a 360-hour paid internship with a public power community (Benson among them) and eventually earn a full-ride through a lineworkers program at one of five community colleges in North Carolina.

NKU is also working with over 100 pathways, community colleges and other programs in and around the region, to make the transition from community college to university as seamless as possible.

She was instrumental in Antioch University's collaboration with Sinclair Community College in Mason, Ohio, and established articulation agreements with four additional non-competing regional community colleges.

The Rural Center will partner with regional Councils of Government, universities, and community colleges in the region to sponsor trainings, recruit participants, and share community success stories.

This will likely be paid for with cuts to food stamps, Medicare and Social Security as well as community aid programs and federal funding for community colleges.

Applications began to pour into community colleges when the program was approved.

For instance, companies seeking over $150 million in funding will have to come up with plans for recruiting and training a diverse work force, including women, as well as working with local high schools and community colleges.

For many, the most frustrating was that community colleges aren’t allowed to create degrees that are already offered at even a single public four-year university.

In the past few years, I have that an alternative would be a heavy federal investment in community colleges funded by purposefully punitive endowment taxes on élite private institutions.

Low-income students who live in Mexico within 45 miles of the California border could pay in-state tuition at community colleges in San Diego and Imperial counties, under the new legislation.

Pritzker has visited a number of the schools to highlight programs and services that community colleges are creating to strengthen and train the state’s workforce.

Souza says he began teaching computer classes at community colleges on O‘ahu in the 1990s.