News & announcements from August 2010
CC college completion rates
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010There has been much push for increasing community college completion rates. In a recent article, entitled “To What End?” Terry O’Banion, former president of the League for Innovation in Community Colleges, suggests, we will need to be careful to continue to balance both liberal arts and vocational/terminal degrees. This is an increasingly more difficult challenge, given…
Digital Age Plagiarism & Fair Use of Videos
Monday, August 2nd, 2010A NY Times article entitled Plagiarism Lines Blur in Digital Age, explores college students’ confusion and disciplinary actions for plagiarism. The article suggests that many students in this digital age don’t fully understand the concepts of authorship, intellectual property and copyright. The article also suggests that digital age students who are used to downloading videos, music…
For-Profit Colleges & Student Debt
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about for profit colleges is by Kevin Carey, Education Sector. Currently GCC has only non credit offerings similar to many community colleges in MA and around the country via for profit enterprises, Ed to Go and Gatlin. Senator Tom Harkin continues to hold hearings about profit margins, student debt and…
