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• Last Monday, Inside Higher Ed ran an article about CUNY’s “Reimagining Community Colleges” event. Speakers encouraged colleges to “lean on innovation rather than waiting for better budgets to return.” Wise council. But it sure would be nice if those better budgets came back, too.
• Over at Getting Past Go, Bruce Vandal is recapping August’s online jam “Turning Around Failure: System Triage for Severely Under-Prepared Adults in Higher Education,” which was hosted by the Education Commission of the States, Jobs For the Future, and Knowledge in the Public Interest. Check out the full report and the blog series based on the jam highlights.
• Complete College America’s big news last week was the release of a report, Time is the Enemy, chock full of useful data and state profiles. Here’s some of that data, featured in the New York Times article on the report: “The numbers are stark: In Texas, for example, of every 100 students who enrolled in a public college, 79 started at a community college, and only 2 of them earned a two-year degree on time; even after four years, only 7 of them graduated. Of the 21 of those 100 who enrolled at a four-year college, 5 graduated on time; after eight years, only 13 had earned a degree.” CCA names five essential steps states should take to increase college completion including “transforming remediation so that students get into full-credit classes and on the graduation track as soon as possible.”