Tag: College
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Nonprofits support Hoover students
Hoover High School freshmen find supports to help them tackle the transition into high school, and to apply for college, thanks to Hoover Community Connections.
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New Law Lets Community Colleges Offer Bachelor’s Degrees
By Matthew Bowler One of the many bills Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law over the weekend makes it possible for some community colleges in California to offer bachelor’s degrees. The new law allows the California chancellor of community colleges to choose 15 community colleges to be the first to offer bachelor’s degrees. San Diego…
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More Latinos Get College Degrees, But Education Gap Widens
By Adrian Florido For the first time ever, the number of U.S. adults with bachelor’s degrees has surpassed 30 percent. But new data shows the higher education gap between Latinos and other ethnic groups is getting wider. In 2001, 11 percent of all U.S. Latinos over the age of 25 had bachelor’s degrees. By last year, that…
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Kids Who Grew Up In SDSU Shadow Come to Campus as Freshmen
By Kyla Calvert Out of the 4,000 San Diego State University freshmen who have just wrapped up their first week of classes, a very small group can say what Jessica Hernandez and Christian Castro do about their classmates. “It was pretty nice having a familiar face nearby,” Hernandez said of her first few days on…