•  The BCCC Case

Not Down for the Count
Student Plots Comeback with Return to Classroom

By John L. Pulley
Lawrence McCutchen has been knocked down and knocked around, but he has never been down for the count. For years he wrestled with drug addiction, multiple incarcerations, a lack of formal education and a chronic aimlessness that greedily devoured his 20s and 30s. He continued to fight, however, and now he’s working on a comeback. |  Read More >

 
•  Visiting the Past

Remediation Woes at CUNY (1998)
The Story Behind the Numbers and Mayor Giuliani’s War of Words

Ten years ago, Community College Week received what we still today consider one of our most cherished honors: The American Association of University Professors’ Award for Excellence in Coverage of Higher Education. We had sent then-editor Scott W. Wright to New York in a pinch when the rumblings grew loud over then-mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s plans to retool remediation at the City University of New York. He came back with a great story. | Read More >

•  Remediation Data

Tracking Remediation

Colleges of all types are confronting students in need of remedial services. The following charts track colleges offering remediation from 1989-90 through 2006-07. | View Chats>

•  In Their Own Words

What Higher Ed Officials are Saying About Remediation

Public two-year institutions have struggled for decades to remediate students who arrive on their campuses lacking basic academic skills. There are signs that decision makers are becoming less sanguine about the education system’s failure to adequately teach basic skills. Here is what some are saying about the issue. |  Read More >

•  Un-Prepared Students

Under-Prepared Students Frustrating Iowa Community Colleges

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s community colleges are frustrated with the number of high school graduates who aren’t prepared for college, according to a copyright story in The Des Moines Register.
Nearly one-third of freshmen at the state’s community colleges took at least one remedial class last fall, with 56.8 percent receiving such poor scores on admissions exams that they were encouraged to take one or more remedial classes, according to a survey by the newspaper.  | Read More >