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08.27.2009 4:42 pm

Missouri community colleges see enrollment surge 12.8 percent

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The trend that everyone expected to see this fall is coming true: enrollment at community colleges this fall has surged 12.8 percent.

That is the figure the Missouri Community College Association tabulated after getting the headcount on the first day of…

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06.29.2009 4:56 pm

Changing of guard on STLCC Board of Trustees

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Joann Ordinachev has been elected president of the STLCC Board of Trustees

Robert Nelson’s three-year reign as president of the St. Louis Community College’s Board of Trustees has come to an end. Earlier this month, the board unanimously elected trustee Joann Ordinachev…

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06.12.2009 2:43 pm

Harrison Education Center ground breaking today would have been on Harrison’s 74th birthday

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A rendering of new Harrison Education Center

A rendering of the new Harrison Education Center in the JeffVanderLou neighborhood

If William J. Harrison were still alive, today would have been his 74th birthday.

Today also happened to be the ground-breaking ceremony for St. Louis Community College’s new Harrison Education…

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05.04.2009 5:25 pm

More on departure of STLCC-Forest Park chief

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I talked today to Bob Nelson, president of the Board of Trustees for St. Louis Community College. He put to rest any questions about any possibly wrongdoing related to Morris Johnson III’s departure from the Forest Park campus.

In a previous…

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05.01.2009 4:35 pm

STLCC-Forest Park chief leaving “to pursue other opportunities”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I just saw a news release pop into my Inbox about the appointment of an interim president for St. Louis Community College-Forest Park. I hadn’t realized that the current president, Morris F. Johnson III, was leaving. The news release notes…

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03.25.2009 2:38 pm

More on community college student transfer rates

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Here are some interesting tidbits I got too late or didn’t have room for in today’s story about community colleges.

According to St. Louis Community College, about 1,800 of their students transfer to a Missouri public or private four-year school every…

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02.06.2009 4:43 pm

Jury recommends up to 11 years of prison for Earp

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Post-Dispatch reporter Heather Ratcliffe just sent me the following:

A St. Louis jury recommended today that a political consultant accused of stealing more than $220,000 from a St. Louis Community College campaign fund in 2006 serve up to 11 years in…

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02.05.2009 11:32 am

Update: Earp found guilty of stealing from community college campaign fund

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

UPDATE: Steven Wyatt Earp, a political consultant who worked on St. Louis Community College’s referendum campaign, was found guilty this afternoon on two felony counts of stealing more than $25,000.

The jury found him not guilty on a 3rd count and…

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