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Community Colleges Turn to New Incentives for Recruitment
Desperate to slow the steep decline of entering students, community colleges are getting creative and offering scholarships, complimentary laptops and free summer courses to high school graduates who enroll.
Let’s change our approach to traditionally overlooked students
There is no shortage of potential new students if colleges widen their recruitment efforts to focus on traditionally overlooked candidates — including those who might dismiss college due to financial need or academic performance.
Who Gets to Be ‘College Material’?
Higher education institutions should reimagine the responsibility they have to ensure college is the true force for equity that it can and should be, Jeff Raikes argues.
California’s community colleges at critical crossroads as more students opt not to attend
Across California, enrollments at many community colleges have plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic. Systemwide, more than 260,000 fewer students enrolled in fall 2020 compared to fall 2019, potentially threatening the long-term existence of some colleges unless they can dramatically turn things around, the system’s Board of Governors learned recently.
Even as colleges pledge to improve, share of engineering and math graduates who are Black declines
The supply of Black scientists, engineers and mathematicians is flat or falling even as demand goes up.
Local assessments an option if Smarter Balanced tests ‘not viable,’ U.S. education officials affirm
California schools will be expected to administer Smarter Balanced and other statewide tests this spring, but districts can select alternatives in cases where these tests are not “viable” to administer, federal education officials said.
Maintaining STEM engagement in hybrid, remote learning
Maintaining student engagement in STEM subjects has been a particular challenge for K-12 throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, as educators have had to figure out adjustments and alternatives for hands-on, interactive lessons in remote and hybrid environments, according to EdTech: Focus on K-12.
California Competes Brief Explains Cradle-to-Career Data System to Policymakers
a new brief titled, “The Cradle-to-Career Data System Governance Options, Explained,” California Competes offers analysis about the state’s Cradle-to-Career Data System to policymakers.
