Thursday, November 19, 2009
The Choice answers questions about community colleges
The New York Times blog "The Choice" has expert answers to questions about community colleges, including especially young students attending them before transferring to four-year universities, in "Answers About Community Colleges."
Labels: California community colleges, national
California community colleges may offer common assessments in 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that California community colleges will be encouraged to offer a common assessment in mathematics and English for incoming students starting in the fall of 2010, according to the system's chancellor, Jack Scott. The system's 110 campuses have long offered dozens of incompatible assessment tests, which Mr. Scott said had wasted money, muddied transfer pathways to universities, and made it more difficult for students to move from one community college to another.
Labels: California, California community colleges
Sunday, November 8, 2009
CCSF cuts summer classes
KCBS in San Francisco reports that City College of San Francisco, the largest community college in the nation, has cut most if not all its classes for Summer 2010.
"City College of San Francisco will be offering very few, if any, classes this summer. Summer school classes at the community college are being cancelled because of funding cuts.
The state has slashed the budget for community colleges and CCSF took a $20 million hit, which adds up to about 900 classes in the summer."
KCBS FULL STORY (includes video)
The San Francisco Examiner also reports on the story, including that "Some 800 classes have already been eliminated in the current academic year — about 300 from fall and about 500 from spring" and that there are 2,500 more students vying for classes at CCSF this year compared to last year.
The Examiner story
"City College of San Francisco will be offering very few, if any, classes this summer. Summer school classes at the community college are being cancelled because of funding cuts.
The state has slashed the budget for community colleges and CCSF took a $20 million hit, which adds up to about 900 classes in the summer."
KCBS FULL STORY (includes video)
The San Francisco Examiner also reports on the story, including that "Some 800 classes have already been eliminated in the current academic year — about 300 from fall and about 500 from spring" and that there are 2,500 more students vying for classes at CCSF this year compared to last year.
The Examiner story
Labels: Bay area, California, California community colleges
Monday, November 2, 2009
Community College Week at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco
The Examiner.com reports that this week, the first ever-statewide Community College Week celebration will be held in San Francisco.
Events for the week include a kickoff ceremony on Monday at 6 pm at Yerba Buena Gardens, a Community College Film Festival with shorts by students, faculty and staff on Thursday on Nov. 5 at 7 pm at Downtown Campus at 88 Fourth Street on the 8th floor, free classes Wed., Thurs, and Fri at Yerba Buena Gardens which include a sketching class, a physics class about making ice cream and a financial planning seminar. There will be a Candlelight Vigil on Friday, Nov. 6 starting at 7 p.m. at Union Square.
Also, students and alumni have created The Student Success Stories Project, 75 life-sized soft sculptures. These will be a Yerba Buena all week.
FULL STORY
Events for the week include a kickoff ceremony on Monday at 6 pm at Yerba Buena Gardens, a Community College Film Festival with shorts by students, faculty and staff on Thursday on Nov. 5 at 7 pm at Downtown Campus at 88 Fourth Street on the 8th floor, free classes Wed., Thurs, and Fri at Yerba Buena Gardens which include a sketching class, a physics class about making ice cream and a financial planning seminar. There will be a Candlelight Vigil on Friday, Nov. 6 starting at 7 p.m. at Union Square.
Also, students and alumni have created The Student Success Stories Project, 75 life-sized soft sculptures. These will be a Yerba Buena all week.
FULL STORY
Labels: Bay area, California community colleges
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Poet Laureate praises College of Marin and other CCs
A New Yorker column discusses Poet Laureate Kay Ryan's championing of community colleges in our country, including College of Marin, where she has taught for many years.
Ryan has just announced her "Community College Poetry Project," a much-needed program aiming to highlight the country’s community colleges as vital educational institutions. “I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly—and with very little financial encouragement—saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.”
FULL COLUMN
Ryan has just announced her "Community College Poetry Project," a much-needed program aiming to highlight the country’s community colleges as vital educational institutions. “I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly—and with very little financial encouragement—saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.”
FULL COLUMN
Labels: Bay area, California community colleges
Friday, October 30, 2009
College Enrollment Hits All-Time High
From the Pew Research Center:
"The share of 18- to 24-year-olds attending college in the United States hit an all-time high in October 2008, driven by a recession-era surge in enrollments at community colleges, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Just under 11.5 million students, or 39.6% of all young adults ages 18 to 24, were enrolled in either a two- or four-year college in October 2008 (the most recent date for which comprehensive nationwide data are available). Both figures -- the absolute number as well as the share -- are at their highest level ever."
FULL STORY
"The share of 18- to 24-year-olds attending college in the United States hit an all-time high in October 2008, driven by a recession-era surge in enrollments at community colleges, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Just under 11.5 million students, or 39.6% of all young adults ages 18 to 24, were enrolled in either a two- or four-year college in October 2008 (the most recent date for which comprehensive nationwide data are available). Both figures -- the absolute number as well as the share -- are at their highest level ever."
FULL STORY
Labels: California community colleges, national
