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• California Community Colleges Create a Path to HBCUs
• 10 Nursing Master's Programs With the Highest Enrollment
• Top Senate Democrat joins push for populist campaign agenda

California Community Colleges Create a Path to HBCUs Posted: 07 Apr 2015 07:00 AM PDT More than 80 percent of community college students intend to transfer to a four-year school, but only about 25 percent actually do it, according to a January report from the Teachers College at Columbia University. An initiative announced in March may help more California community college students become undergrads. Education experts hope it will increase the higher education options for community college students in California. The state has more community colleges than any other, says Walter Bumphus, president of the American Association of Community Colleges.

10 Nursing Master's Programs With the Highest Enrollment Posted: 07 Apr 2015 06:00 AM PDT The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Some nursing organizations and schools are scrambling to get more students into this field. Some institutions, however, already stand out for having high enrollment numbers for students seeking a master's degree in nursing. Chamberlain College of Nursing, for example, had 4,963 master's students enrolled in fall of 2014.

Top Senate Democrat joins push for populist campaign agenda Posted: 07 Apr 2015 03:03 AM PDT By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday joined a grassroots effort from the progressive wing of the party to encourage presidential candidates to adopt populist policies as they begin their campaigns. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is among more than 5,000 lawmakers and party leaders who have signed on to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. Two weeks ago it launched a "Ready for Boldness" campaign that aims to ensure the eventual Democratic presidential nominee supports policies such as expanding Social Security retirement benefits, breaking up big banks and debt-free higher education. All of the issues have been championed by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, but she has said repeatedly she will not seek the party's nomination.

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