News & Research Entities:
Adult Career Pathways Training and Support Center is a
comprehensive website that supports adult education providers in
designing, implementing, and improving adult career pathway
programs.
American Institutes for Research (AIR)
is one of the largest behavioral and social science research
organizations in the world. Its overriding goal is to use the
best science available to bring the most effective ideas and
approaches to enhancing everyday life.
American RadioWorks from American Public Media
creates documentaries, series projects, podcasts and online
content for the public radio system and the Internet.
Blackboard Blog - Everything about
Blackboard and much more.
The Bottom Line
features news about Community College Business
Officers (CCBO) members, updates on association programs and
events, a message from the President and other important
information to help enable more effective job performance on
campus.
Bridge
to Success (B2S)
content can be delivered as a course, made available to students
in open computer labs, incorporated into student success
initiatives (such as first-year experience), or promoted as a
resource to adults who are considering returning to college.
California Watch Higher Ed Section: In the summer of 2009,
the independent, nonpartisan Center for Investigative Reporting
launched a new reporting initiative called California Watch, the
largest group of journalists dedicated to investigative
reporting in the state.
Campus Technology is published by 1105 Media, Inc., and
covers everything about education technologies.
ccnewsnow.com aggregates news, features, and more about
community colleges.
The Center for College Affordability and Productivity has
numerous resources on a wide variety of topics of interest to
community colleges. The CCAP exists to help facilitate a
broader dialogue on the issues and problems facing the
institutes of higher education in the United States.
Center for Digital Education is a national research and
advisory institute specializing in K-12 and higher education
technology trends, policy and funding.
The mission of the
Center for the Study of Community College
is to improve community college effectiveness and
student success by engaging in relevant and applicable research
related to community college practice and policy.
The Choice: Demystifying College Admissions and Aid, by the
New York Times
College Completion - The Chronicle of Higher Education
This microsite examines data and trends at 3,800 degree-granting
institutions in the United States (excluding territories) that
reported a first-time, full-time degree-seeking undergraduate
cohort, had a total of at least 100 students at the
undergraduate level in 2010, and awarded undergraduate degrees
between 2008 and 2010.
The College of 2020 is a blog about the future of
higher education. What will it be like in 2020?
The Chronicle of Higher Education's
Community College section.
Community College Journal - AACC's bimonthly magazine that features
articles by leading experts, opinions that put the news in
perspective, coverage of higher education issues, and profiles
of the field's leaders.
Community College Research Center (CCRC) -
CCRC is the
leading independent authority on the nation’s more than 1,200
two-year colleges. CCRC’s consortium of researchers has
strategically assessed the problems and performances of
community colleges. Its mission is to conduct research on the
major issues affecting community colleges in the United States
and to contribute to the development of practice and policy that
expands access to higher education and promotes success for all
students.
The Community College Review (CCR)
The Community College Review (CCR) deals with all aspects of
community college administration, education, and policy, both
within the American higher education system as well as within
the higher education systems of other countries that have
similar tertiary institutions. CCR includes qualitative and
quantitative research reports, critical literature reviews,
scholarly essays, and book reviews.
Community College Spotlight
Published by the Hechinger Report.
Community College Times - the newspaper of the American
Association of Community Colleges, provides coverage of
community college news and issues – from fundraising, strategic
planning and accountability to current legislation, cutting-edge
technology and institutional development.
Community College Week
is "the independent voice serving
community, technical and junior colleges."
The
Completion by Design Knowledge Center is dedicated to
assisting grantees as they undertake comprehensive, college-wide
reform.
Completion Matters is a field-facing knowledge management
and engagement community focused on college completion.
The
DCCCD TeleCollege Online Blog is about distance learning and
technology.
DEI,
Latest News posts links to "the
latest news from the world of developmental education, updated
daily," published by the Developmental Education Initiative.
Demos - Higher Education is a multi-issue national
organization that combines research, policy development and
advocacy to influence public debate and catalyze change.
digitalculturebooks is dedicated to publishing innovative
work in new media studies and the emerging field of digital
humanities.
Digital Literacy is the
"public face" of an international movement focused on promoting
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Literacy and
Digital Literacy.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education features sections on
news, opinions, multimedia and jobs and is published by Cox,
Matthews and Associates, Inc.
eCampus News: “Technology News for Today’s Higher-Ed Leader”
Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. Blog (EMSI): News and
resources for workforce development, economic development and
education professionals.
eLearn Magazine is a source of high-quality information on
technology for corporate training and higher education.
Education
Commission of the States (ECS)
An interstate compact created in 1965 to improve public
education by facilitating the exchange of information, ideas and
experiences among state policymakers and education leaders.
Education Sector, Community College Section is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization committed to achieving measurable
impact in education policy. Its mission is to promote changes in
policy and practice that lead to improved student opportunities
and outcomes.
Engagement Matters is a periodic CCSSE publication
that showcases how colleges have communicated CCSSE survey
results internally and externally; how colleges have used
results to target areas that are worthy of celebration.
Foundation Center - Research Studies - Special Topic Trends:
The Foundation Center's funding trends reports provide the
latest data available on every aspect of U.S. foundation
philanthropy. The Center's team of research experts analyzes and
interprets the data on foundations that they collect — providing
a national data source unique for its scope, depth, and
historical value.
GOVERNING The States and Localities – Topics: Education:
Provides intelligence and analysis on management, policy and
politics to help guide and inspire innovative leaders across
state and local government
Hacking the Academy features a volume assembled and
edited by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt from the best of over
300 submissions received during a spirited week when the two
editors actively solicited ideas for how the academy could be
beneficially reformed using digital media and technology.
Harvest Public Media: Most Harvest Public Media stories
begin with radio — regular reports are aired on our six member
stations in the Midwest. But Harvest also explores issues
through online analyses, television reports, podcasts,
photography, video, blogs and social networking.
Higher Ed Impact from Academic Impressions
A Toolkit for Scanning the Industry.You don’t have time to read 5 newsletters. Higher Ed Impact
reads them all, and with a deep understanding of the business of
higher education, they hand-select the most critical
stories, trends, and research reports that have an impact on how
your institution needs to operate.
Higher Ed Watch is a blog published by the New America
Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute
that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next
generation of challenges facing the United States.
Homeroom is the official blog of the US Dept. of Education.
HuffPost College is a HuffingtonPost.com resource filled
with news, features and blog posts related to higher education.
Inside Higher Ed's
In Focus Community Colleges section.
Impatient
Optimists-US Education: From the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation
The Innovative Educator
Lisa Nielsen is an educational administrator and permanently
certified teacher with more than a decade's worth of experience
working in educational innovation at the city, state, and
national level. Ms. Nielsen is a Google Certified Teacher,
International Edublogger, International EduTwitter, and creator
of The Innovative Educator blog, website, learning network, and
wiki. In addition to her blog, her work is published in
“Learning and Leading,” “Tech & Learning,” and ISTE Connect.
The Instructional Technology Council Newsletter
is a great resource about technology in community colleges.
International Journal of ePortfolio is a double-blind,
peer-reviewed, open access journal freely available online.
Subscriptions and fees are not required to access this journal.
Jobs
for the Future Newswire offers insight on education reform
and workforce development at local, state, and federal levels.
The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is
a nonprofit institute dedicated to improving higher education in
North Carolina and the nation. Located in Raleigh, North
Carolina, it has been an independent 501(c)(3) organization
since 2003. It is named for the late John William Pope, who
served on the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees.
The League for Innovation in Community College publishes
monographs, abstracts, special reports, occasional papers, and
newsletters that feature innovative practices in the community
college and updates on League initiatives and projects. Some of
these publications—Innovation
Showcase,
League Connections,
and current
issues of
Leadership Abstracts
and
Learning Abstracts—are
available online at no charge, while others may be purchased at
the
League Store.
iStream,
for instance, is the League’s subscription-based multimedia web
portal where faculty, staff, administration, and students go to
find quick solutions for research and reference needs using the
latest web 2.0 technology.
The Learning Edge blog by NISOD
Learning Virtually Anywhere Blog, by Web Study
Features news, tips and resources related to education
technology.
Leveling the Playing Field with Apps, Scoop.it
Kathleen McClaskey curates this topic from blogs, tweets, videos
and much more.
Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS)
The Literacy Information and Communication System, commonly
referred to as LINCS, is a national dissemination,
resource gathering, and professional development system
providing information on a wide variety of literacy relevant
topics, issues, and resources.
Lumina Foundation Newsroom is an excellent resource that
includes two free subscription-based e-newsletters: A monthly
e-newsletter featuring higher education information, research,
news about the Lumina Foundation and information about Lumina's
latest publications, and a daily higher education news feed. The
Newsroom also features links to multimedia, mobile and social
media sections.
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04/21/2012:
Reclaiming The American Dream - Community Colleges and
the Nation's Future,
by The 21st-Century Commission on the Future of
Community Colleges, American Association of Community
Colleges - Released at the 92nd Annual Convention
Articles Published About
the AACC Report:
05/02/2012:
American Association of Community Colleges Report Calls
for Dramatic Change, by George Lorenzo, Training
Industry, Inc.
04/28/2012:
Restoration Drama - America’s Under-appreciated
Community Colleges Hold Promise, The Economist
04/26/2012:
Businesses and Community Colleges: Building on Success
to Reclaim the American Dream, by Peggy Walton,
Corporate Voices for Working Families
04/23/2012:
AACC Report Calls for Fundamental Shifts in Community
Colleges’ Focus, by Charles Dervarics and David
Pluviose, Diverse
04/23/2012:
Call to Action, Again, by Paul Fain, Inside Higher
Ed
04/23/2012:
AACC Calls on Colleges to Redesign, Reinvent and Reset,
by Matthew Dembicki, Community College Times
04/23/2012:
Redesign, Reinvent and Reset, by Joanne Jacobs,
Community College Spotlight
04/21/2012:
Community Colleges Not Up to 21st-Century Mission, Their
Own Report Says, by Jennifer González, The Chronicle
of Higher Education
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Statistics:
Federal Education Budget Project - Higher Education, New
America Foundation
04/2012:
California’s Economic Payoff: Investing in College Access &
Completion, Jon Stiles, Michael Hout and Henry Brady, The
Campaign for College Opportunity
04/2012:
Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College
Graduation Rates, by Mark Schneider and Lu Michelle Yin,
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
03/28/2012:
Early College High Schools Get Results with Students Who Have
Been Underrepresented in Higher Education, Jobs For The
Future
03/27/2012:
Outpacing IPEDS, by Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
03/12/2012:
Faculty Salaries Are Up 1.9% , by Scott Jaschik, Inside
Higher Ed
03/10/2012:
A Pixelated Portrait of Labour, Washington D.C., The
Economist
03/07/2012:
Taking Action for America: A CEO Plan for Jobs and Economic
Growth, Business Roundtable
03/05/2012:
Grading Student Loans, by Meta Brown, Andrew Haughwout,
Donghoon Lee, Maricar Mabutas and Wilbert van der Klaauw,
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Liberty Street Economics
03/2012:
Enrollment in
Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2010; Financial Statistics,
Fiscal Year 2010; and Graduation Rates, Selected Cohorts,
2002–07, by Laura G. Knapp, Janice E. Kelly-Reid and Scott
A. Ginder, NCES, IES, U.S. Department of Education
03/2012:
A Stronger Nation through Higher Education, Lumina
Foundation
02/27/2012:
Definitive Study of College-Bound Students in China,
studentPOLL China
02/23/2012:
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2011 - Detailed
Tables, U.S. Census Bureau
02/21/2012:
Smaller Servings for Libraries, by Steve Kolowich, Inside
Higher Ed
02/17/2012:
From College Degree to Career: Choosing the Right Major,
visual.ly
02/03/2012:
Data Spotlight: Engineers in Manufacturing, Economic
Modeling Specialists Inc. (EMS) Blog
02/2012:
Top 10 Education, The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies,
Fast Company
01/25/2012:
Year Two of Implementing the Common Core State Standards:
States' Progress and Challenges, by Nancy Kober and Diane
Stark Rentner, Center on Education Policy
01/24/2012:
Brain Drain: States That Lose the Most College Students, by
Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post, Campus Overload
01/09/2012:
The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2011, by John H.
Pryor, Linda DeAngelo, Laura Palucki Blake, Sylvia Hurtado,
Serge Tran, Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the
Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA (CIRP)
01/08/2012:
Serving Unemployed Workers and Capacity Strains at Community
Colleges
01/2012:
Postsecondary Education - Financial Trends in Public and Private
Nonprofit Institutions, US Government Accountability Office
2012:
A Matter of Degrees: Promising Practices for Community College
Student Success - A First Look, Center for Community College
Student Engagement (CCCSE)
2012:
The
Roadmap for Educators and Policymakers to Help Students Reach
College Completion - To help policymakers and educators achieve
the goal of 55% by 2025, The College Board Advocacy & Policy
Center
Interesting News & Feature
Articles:
05/04/2012:
Community Colleges Have a Major Role in Global Prosperity,
by Ellie Ashford, Community College Times
05/01/2012:
What Is the Role of Libraries in the Age of E-Books and Digital
Information?, by Jenny Shank, PBS, MediaShift
04/29/2012:
Reclaiming the Classroom With Old-Fashioned Teaching, by
Jennifer Brannock Cox, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The
Digital Campus
04/28/2012:
Common Core Standards Drive Wedge in Education Circles, by
Greg Toppo, USA Today
04/28/2012:
TED Launches a Groundbreaking Online Education Initiative,
by Robert T. Gonzalez, i09
04/26/2012:
Coping with Email Overload, by Peter Bregman, Harvard
Business Review
04/26/2012:
In an Election Year, Advocates Need to Press Congress to Act,
by David Baime, Community College Times
04/26/2012:
For-Profits' War on Philanthropy, by Johann Neem, Inside
Higher Ed
04/25/2012:
‘Free-Range Learners’: Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt
for Educational Content Online, by Marc Parry, The Chronicle
of Higher Education, Wired Campus
04/25/2012:
What Keeps Us Awake at Night, by Margaret Andrews, Inside
Higher Ed, StratEDgy
04/24/2012:
Texas Running Low on College Educated Workers, by Bobby
Blanchard, The Daily Texan
04/23/2012:
Privatization Without Angst, by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher
Ed
04/22/2012:
Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams, by David Jaffee,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Commentary
04/22/2012:
What Graduate Students Want to Know About Community Colleges,
Part 1, by Rob Jenkins, The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Advice
04/16/2012:
Should We Force Our Kids to Major in Science or Engineering?,
by Karin Kasdin, HuffPost, College
04/15/2012:
Growing Your Own?, by Dean Dad, Inside Higher Ed
04/13/2012:
Educating the Next Steve Jobs, by Tony Wagner, The Wall
Street Journal
04/13/2012:
Foundations' Newfound Advocacy, by Doug Lederman, Inside
Higher Ed
04/12/2012:
House Panel Rebuffs Patrick's Plan to Overhaul Community
Colleges, by Grant Welker, The Herald News
04/12/2012:
Overhauling the Graduation-Rate Calculus: Now the Hard Part
Begins, by Jennifer González, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, Students
04/12/2012:
Culture Change for Learning, by Richard P. Keeling and
Richard H. Hersh, Inside Higher Ed
04/11/2012:
Everybody’s Worried Now, by Kevin Kiley, Inside Higher Ed
04/11/2012:
College 101: Ask for Help, by Andrea L. Brown, Chicago
Tribune - Students with learning disabilities often don't ask
for the help that is available.
04/11/2012:
2-Year College Retirement Wave?by Scott Jaschik, Inside
Higher Ed
04/10/2012:
Will Some Community Members Be Booted From Community Colleges?
, by Spencer Michels, PBS NewsHour
04/08/2012:
A Future Full of Badges, by Kevin Carey, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, Commentary
04/08/2012:
For Student Success, Stop Debating and Start Improving, by
Hilary Pennington, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Commentary
04/08/2012:
Innovations in Higher Education? Hah!, by Ann Kirschner, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle Review
04/04/2012:
AACC Statement on the American Enterprise Institute’s
“Completion Matters: The High Cost of Low Community College
Graduation Rates”, American Association of Community
Colleges
04/03/2012:
Freemium Higher Education?, by Kevin Carey, The Quick & The
Ed
04/02/2012:
Community Reflects on Leadership Guru Roueche as He Retires,
by Ellen Ullman, Community College Times
04/01/2012:
Rahm Emanuel’s Ideas for Improving Higher Ed, Ben Casnocha
04/01/2012:
Community Colleges: No Access to Classes, No Success, by
Dayna Straehley and Imran Ghori, The Press Enterprise
04/01/2012:
The Politics of Going to College, by Thomas B. Edsall, The
New York Times, Opinions
04/2012:
Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught, by Emily
Hanford, American RadioWorks
04/2012:
Bridging Cultures to Form a Nation: Difference, Community, and
Democratic Thinking, The Association of American Colleges
and Universities (AAC&U) and The Democracy Commitment: An
American Community College Initiative (TDC)
Measuring Marketing ROI: A New Imperative for Colleges,
by
Kathy Corbalis, Community College Times
03/30/2012:
How to Ask a Question, by Peter Wood, The Chronicle of
Higher Education, Innovations
03/30/2012:
Moving Beyond Technology, by Mary Grush, Campus Technology
03/29/2012:
Why Doesn’t Paul Ryan Like Community College Innovation? ,
by Amy Laitinen, The Quick & The Ed
03/28/2012:
Community Colleges Connect with Students, by Miles Trump,
The Daily News
03/27/2012:
College Demand “Unstoppable”, by Kathryn Baron, Thoughts on
Public Education
03/26/2012:
Jobs Drive Boomers to Acquire New Skills, by Randy Tucker
and Encarnacion Pyle, Springfield News-Sun
03/23/2012:
Do College Professors Work Hard Enough?, by David C. Levy,
The Washington Post, Opinions
03/20/2012:
CSU Enrollment Freeze: Tell Us What You Think, Los
Angeles Times
03/18/2012:
Job Market for College Graduates Appears to be Recovering,
by Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times
03/18/2012:
Generation Me on Trial, by Jean M. Twenge, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, Commentary
03/18/2012:
Community College Reforms will Hurt Those Who Need Them Most
by Leah Halper, San Jose Mercury News
03/15/2012:
Millennials Are More 'Generation Me' Than 'Generation We,' Study
Finds, by Joanna Chau, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, Students
03/14/2012:
Big Job, Big Problems, by Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed
03/13/2012:
By 2020, India Will Be Top Country Sending Students to the U.S.,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Global Ticker
03/13/2012:
The Culture of Change, by Kevin Kiley, Inside Higher
Ed
03/12/2012:
TED, Known for Idea Talks, Releases Educational Videos,
by Jeffrey R. Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Wired
Campus
03/09/2012:
Knowledge and Skills are Infinite – Oil is Not, by
Andreas Schleicher, OECD educationtoday
03/09/2012:
Demographic Change in Community Colleges,
by Richard Kahlenberg, The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Innovations
03/06/2012:
The Coming Revolution in Higher Ed, by Paul LeBlanc,
Southern New Hampshire University
03/04/2012:
Tuning In to Dropping Out,
by Alex Tabarrok, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The
Chronicle Review
03/01/2012:
Bumphus Appointed to New U.S. Homeland Security Council,
by Times Staff, Community College Times
03/01/2012:
Is the Value of a College Degree Exaggerated? If Not, are
Colleges Doing Enough to Help Disadvantaged Students, and
Others, Succeed?
- Six interesting articles for discussion from the New
York Times
03/01/2012:
Guest View: Flexibility is Strength Behind Community Colleges,
by John J. Sbrega, SouthCoastToday.com
More
News & Feature Articles
Interesting Reports:
04/2012:
Closing the Door, Increasing the Gap: Who's Not Going to
(Community) College?, by Gary Rhoades, Center for the Future
of Higher Education
03/20/2012:
U.S. Education Reform and National Security, by Joel I.
Klein and Condoleezza Rice and Julia Levy, Council on Foreign
Relations
03/2012:
Opportunity For Action - Preparing Youth for 21st Century
Livelihoods, International Youth Foundation (IYF)
2011/2012:
Presidential Perspectives: Three-Year Baccalaureate Degrees
Contain Costs and Accelerate Positive Outcomes - One
Institution’s Experience, by Vinton Thompson, Aramark Higher
Education
03/20/2012:
Understanding the Digital Generation, 21st Century Fluency
Project
03/08/2012:
Concerns About Sports, Backing for Obama: a Survey of Presidents,
by Doug Lederman, Kevin Kiley and Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher
Ed
03/2012:
Increasing Opportunities for Low-Income Women and Student
Parents in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math at
Community Colleges, by Cynthia B. Costello, Institute for
Women's Policy Research
02/29/2012:
Millennials Will Benefit And Suffer Due to Hyperconnected Lives,
PewResearchCenter, Pew Internet
02/07/2012:
Dramatically Bringing Down the Cost of Education with OER,
by David Wiley, Cable Green and Louis Soares, Center for
American Progress
02/06/2012:
Education in the Twenty-First Century Commitment to the Future,
Future Trends Forum (FTF), Fundación de la Innovación Bankinter
02/2012:
The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or
Agile Predators? , David J. Deming, Claudia Goldin and
Lawrence F. Katz, CAPSEE
02/2012:
The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are
American Students Learning? , by Tom Loveless, The Brookings
Institution
02/01/2012:
2011 Academic Annual Report, University of Phoenix
02/2012:
Why Access Matters: The Community College Student Body, by
Christopher M. Mullin, American Association of Community
Colleges
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