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UC Riverside School of Medicine Accepts Inaugural Class of California Medicine Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The UC Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine has accepted its first class of California Medicine Scholars. This spring, these community college students from inland Southern California will receive academic support as they pursue medical education.

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Moorpark College teaches exotic animal training

Inside Higher Ed

Image: It’s finals season at Moorpark College, a community college in Ventura County, Calif. The college also boasts successful performing arts, nursing and biotechnology programs. As of 2018, it had a six-year completion rate of 64 percent, which was the highest of any California community college.

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The Future is Bright for Indiana University's 15-Year-Old Graduate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The rule is you can’t go to college until you have a high school degree. He finally found a home at the 21st Century Charter School in Gary, Indiana, where he became a high school freshman at 11 years old. Their dual credit opportunities with Ivy Tech Community College gave him the chance to jump-start his future.

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Friday Fragments: Parenting Edition

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean I read last week about the Association of Community College Trustees and Head Start teaming up to place more Head Start locations on community college campuses. It’s a fantastic idea. Yes, yes, yes. It’s needed, but it pays badly.

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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

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colleges and universities face enrollment crises. Mr. Hadhad was midway through medical school when he fled Syria. Here’s a guy who was halfway through medical school when he arrived. No colleges or universities are mentioned in the article or on the organization’s website.

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. College students, like all too many older adults, find themselves enmeshed in a Durkheimian nightmare : without a “sense of common bond or shared identity, a void of powerful values, lives of bleak consumerism. It will change higher education forever.

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2023 Health Professions HEED Award Field Guide

Insight Into Diversity

This two-week summer initiative introduces high school and early community college students to health care careers, highlighting the significance of nurses and aiming to reduce the wealth gap through education and job preparation. California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) Patricia A. military.