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FirstDegree
in the News
Many Matriculate, Few Graduate
East Bay Express 8/18/2004
When Gene Judson
graduated with his associate's degree from Chabot Community College in
1989, he immediately knew something was wrong.
Not with the degree
itself, which he earned after five hard years of working and going to
school part-time. Rather, it was the fact that of the ten-thousand-plus
students enrolled at Chabot, only about six hundred received their
degrees. "I thought there was something wrong with that picture," he
says.
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Community colleges earn high marks
Times-Herald (Vallejo, Benicia, American Canyon)
8/11/2004
Solano Community College and Napa Valley College lead the pack of
20 Bay Area community colleges in the number of students who earn
degrees, according to a new East Bay educational research and consulting
firm.
Gene Judson,
president of FirstDegree of San Leandro, said the group conducted the
survey and rankings to promote the value of degrees two-year community
colleges offer.
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Survey gives SCC high marks
Daily Republic (Fairfield,
Suisun City)
Solano Community College
ranked second among 20 Bay Area community colleges in a survey measuring
graduation rates conducted by an educational research and consulting
firm.
SCC came in second to Napa
Valley College, according to the rankings published by FirstDegree, an
East Bay firm.
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