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A Promising Development: "Promise" Scholarships Targeting Individual Communities Reduce Barriers to College Access--and Completion
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Pierce, Dennis – Community College Journal, 2015
This article discusses Promise Scholarships in community colleges and sources of funding. The following community colleges and their scholarships are mentioned in this article: (1) Oregon Promise, Oregon; (2) Ventura College Promise, California; (3) Kalamazoo Promise, Michigan; (4) Pittsburgh Promise, Pennsylvania; (5) SEED Scholarship, Delaware;…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Scholarships, Scholarship Funds, Financial Support
Harvesting Greatness: With Support from the USDA, Rural Colleges Are Expanding Campuses and Helping Communities
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Boerner, Heather – Community College Journal, 2015
Partnerships between the USDA and rural colleges are one approach that allows individual students and regional economies to fulfill their potential. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made a decision to be involved with rural community colleges, which has really made a difference on what is happening on campus. Through a dizzying array…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Rural Areas
Getting There
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Violino, Bob – Community College Journal, 2011
Few industries are as critical to the U.S. economy as transportation. Skilled automotive, railroad, and airline technicians shuttle the goods and people that drive every aspect of domestic and international commerce. The transportation sector offers some of the most exciting opportunities for workers to address critical issues of this time:…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Air Transportation, Climate, Vocational Education
The Power of Partnership
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Baxter, Barbara – Community College Journal, 2008
For generations the Arkansas Delta has been a region of poverty, low academic achievement, and low workforce skills. Representing nine counties in the region, four community colleges and a university 300 miles away have joined together to form the Arkansas Delta Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Project (ADSTEP).…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Universities, School Districts, Partnerships in Education
Across the Nation: Unique Delivery and Inventive Approaches
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Fick, Jill; McKeown, Patricia; Whiteside, Ann B.; Paneitz, Becky; Flemming, Sondra; Wolf, Toni; West-Sands, Leslie; Gray, Patricia M.; Orre, Deborah J.; Adams, Ann-Marie – Community College Journal, 2004
In this article, American Association of Community Colleges member institutions provide information on the collaborative efforts in allied health programs between their colleges and the communities they serve. These are but a fraction of the inventive and unique programs community colleges across the U.S. offer to support the health and wellness…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Health Programs, School Community Relationship, Allied Health Occupations Education
Holding One Hundred Hands: Helping Dislocated Workers.
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Jolley, Tammy; McNamee, Kathleen – Community College Journal, 2003
Discusses a program developed to assist displaced workers in a small town in Arkansas after a uniform-manufacturing company shut down and moved to Mexico, leaving nearly 200 unskilled workers unemployed. Reports that almost 100 of the workers became community college students through a cooperative program that involved the schools, the state, the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Dislocated Workers