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-- The proportion of high school graduates enrolling directly into colleges has dropped over the past decade, from 61 percent in 1995 to 52 percent in 2005. -- Only 35 percent of high school freshmen enroll in college within four years, as compared to 53 percent among the top states, according to an October 2006 Institute for Higher Educational Leadership and Policy report. -- Most Californians (84 percent) say that affording college is at least somewhat of a problem for students today, with 53 percent calling it a big problem. An October 2007 Public Policy Institute of California Statewide Survey ... found that two-thirds of Californians believe that the cost of a college education prevents qualified, motivated students from pursuing higher education. -- Three-fourths of Latino young adults not currently in college would have been more likely to attend college if they had better information about financial aid, according to a recent Tomas Rivera Policy Institute survey. More than half of all Latino parents and 43 percent of Latino young adults could not name a single source of financial aid.
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The results clearly show a "green groundswell" on campuses, with nearly 45 percent of colleges committing to fight climate change through cutting carbon emissions. Green building standards guide new construction at 59 percent of schools, while 42 percent use hybrid or electric vehicles. Further, 37 percent purchase renewable energy and 30 percent produce their own wind or solar energy. A substantial 70 percent buy from local farms and 64 percent serve fair trade coffee.
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Several of the newcomers, such as Dickinson and Babson colleges, have graduation rates of 90% or higher, so schools with rates below 50% were pushed further down or off the list completely. However, larger HBCUs like Florida A&M did well, even though they had graduation rates of less than 50%, because they benefited from having higher black enrollment numbers.
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The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) is the largest international association of education institutions, serving more than 3,200 universities, colleges, schools, and related organizations in 55 countries. CASE is the leading resource for professional development, information and standards in the fields of education fundraising, communications, and alumni relations.
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The Texas Workforce Commission has proposed rules changes to Chapter 807 regarding Career Schools and Colleges. All members should review the rules changes by downloading the PDF here, and provide comment to the Texas Registry.
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In 1996 for example, Georgia changed all of its four-year colleges to universities, and all of its vocational technology schools to technical colleges. (Previously, only the four-year research institutions were called universities.) Other states have changed the names of individual colleges, many having started as a teachers' college or vocational school (such as an A&M — an agricultural and mechanical school) that ended up as a full-fledged state university.
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