Further investments will be needed, in the state's community colleges as well as its universities.
The National Hispanic University, set up in 1981 in San Jose, California, cites the black colleges as a model.
Once a manufacturing hub, Providence now has hospitals and colleges as its economic engines, and about half of assessed land is tax-exempt, the city said.
For that reason, countries around the world are looking at community colleges as a model to increase workforce preparedness and college graduation among their own citizens.
But colleges as factories for teaching what anyone can now get out of a book seem archaic enough that we should probably stop using them to do such.
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In the London boroughs of Hackney and Islington, an independent report recommended the creation of new sixth form colleges as a step towards encouraging more young people to stay in education and gain qualifications.
Employing first Chinese graduates of these colleges as liaison staff (and later Mandarin-speaking African college graduates), multinationals should sponsor Chinese faculty research in key areas like petroleum engineering, manufacturing operations and international commerce, and seek out talented students from Angola, Zambia, Congo and Sudan.
Private schools recruit, for the most part, from the same teacher training "colleges" as state schools.
Divestment petitions are circulating at colleges around the country, especially at liberal Northeastern colleges such as Vassar, Harvard, Brown and the University of Vermont.
Some see more potential for badges in K-12 education than at colleges, as an incentive similar to the frequent "power-ups" and accolades that videogames offer.
Now, students from the richest 25% of American homes are more than 10 times as likely to attend colleges and universities as those from the poorest 25%.
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It is not, however, the for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix that have worried us for years, nibbling around the edges at our enrollments and threatening our monopoly.
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The rising percentage of youth going to colleges, as well as the large migration of developing country students to developed country universities, helped propel the need for affordable items appealing to students.
British art colleges, then as now, have always been a fertile breeding ground for musical ideas.
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Meanwhile, as colleges seek more prestige and higher rankings, many are emphasizing scholarships based on high grades and test scores, not financial need.
Many colleges describe loans as "financial aid" or obscure the fact that the aid package includes federal loans to be taken out by parents.
Mervyn Storey of the DUP was concerned that further education (FE) colleges could suffer as a result of the announcement on higher education funding.
Within the historic Royal Colleges, such as those of surgeons or physicians, excellent practice is celebrated, and proper standards are set, pushed and protected.
The group includes healthcare, energy, manufacturing and retail companies, as well as colleges and universities, which are located across the U.S., Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific.
Students at dozens of colleges, such as Syracuse, American University and Marist College, can check online whether a vacant machine is waiting downstairs and how much time remains on each machine's cycle.
The survey, which Congress ordered as part of the 2008 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, asked respondents about 15 regulations stemming from the law that colleges had identified as being particularly onerous.
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Root3: The company, founded in 2011, works on software that helps those who produce their own electricity and other energy onsite, such as colleges, military bases and large hospitals, to generate and use energy efficiently.
Even the well off must shine (absent a seven- or eight-figure contribution to their kid's first-choice school): Their SAT and ACT scores must be in the superior range if they are to avoid the triage performed by the most selective colleges, inundated as they are with applications.
White students have realized that historically black colleges can cost half as much as other schools, and declining black student enrollment has forced many black colleges to recruit students of all races.
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Theater may not always earn the same status as sports in America's high schools and colleges, but committing to it as an adult has paid off.
Children as young as 14 would be able to attend colleges specialising in work skills, such as construction, hairdressing and catering.
Some of that traffic was tainted by underhanded tactics such as paying colleges for steering business.
Community colleges can also serve as a gateway from a high-school diploma to a baccalaureate degree.
That number is likely to grow as more colleges fess up to the reality of enrollment shortfalls.
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Given that the letter represents an interpretation of federal law by major federal agencies, most colleges will regard it as binding.
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