Quality education to tackle current and future work challenges, especially regarding the young, has become a key issue at the 3rd Ibero-American Labor Ministers Meeting, participants said.
The two-day conference started on Tuesday in the Mexican seaside resort of Cancun and is attended by labor ministers from 21 countries. More...

By Susannah Snider. Listing a school first on the FAFSA indicates that a student is more likely to enroll, say experts. College applicants can demonstrate their desire to attend a school by visiting campus, interviewing with admissions counselors and following up on their applications. But they may not know that colleges can gauge their intent to enroll through a little-known method – analyzing an innocuous, nonfinancial question on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. More...

By Kathleen Megan. The state's largest union representing Community College faculty and staff voted Saturday not to endorse the state's "Transform CSCU 2020" plan in its current form. Delegates from the Congress of Connecticut Community Colleges -- known as "The 4C's" -- met Saturday and adopted a resolution that was passed last week by the Faculty Advisory Committee to the state Board of Regents for Higher Education. More...

By Nona Willis Aronowitz. A decade ago, then-18-year-old Sophia Stoll resolved that she wanted to go away for college. The working-class New Yorker enrolled in a private Catholic university outside of Pittsburgh, but by her junior year, she’d realized that the media and technology program didn’t suit her goals. Stoll dropped out, worked odd jobs for a year back home, then transferred to SUNY-Fredonia. But she ended up suffering from extreme anxiety, she says, and withdrew after a semester. More...

By Ginia Bellafante. Last year at its annual gala, LaGuardia Community College, arguably the most ethnically diverse college in the country, honored Marilyn Skony Stamm, the chief executive of a global heating and air-conditioning business. A child of the South Side of Chicago who had gone to Northwestern on scholarship, Ms. Stamm maintained a committed interest in education and joined LaGuardia’s foundation board six years ago, proving herself a skilled networker for an institution with minimal capacity for soliciting money. More...

By Barry Bozeman and Derrick Anderson. It is with good reason that for-profit universities have become in recent years a punching bag for the Federal Trade Commission, state government boards of inquiry, assorted litigants, and the media. Today’s for-profit universities are largely inhabited by short-sighted leaders who make lofty claims about vocationally relevant education while at the same time milking the working poor, the harried single parent, the returning veteran, and, particularly, the possessor of government loans. More...

By Frank Bruni. BETWEEN the last application season and the current one, Swarthmore College, a school nationally renowned for its academic rigor, changed the requirements for students vying to be admitted into its next freshman class.
It made filling out the proper forms easier. More...

​Three dozen community college districts so far have applied to host a pilot baccalaureate program recently approved by the governor.
“The districts’ strong interest in building baccalaureate degree programs is heartening,” California Community Colleges ​Chancellor Brice Harris said in a statement. “They are pioneering a new mission for the California Community Colleges and opening up pathways for Californians who may not have had the chance to earn a four-year degree.” More...