Making waves after battle with cancer
By CC Times, Published June 29, 2010
Mark Cromer, a graduate of Wallace Community College in Alabama, appeared this month on CNN Heroes for his participation in AmpSurf at Pismo Beach, Calif.

Community college is a family affair for Molina Healthcare
By CC Times, Published April 16, 2010
Dr. C. David Molina was working in the emergency room at a busy hospital when he noticed that the needs of his community’s less fortunate were being woefully underserved. In 1980, he opened a primary care clinic in Long Beach, Calif., to care for patients regardless of their ability to pay.

From picking vegatables, to brain surgery at Hopkins
By CC Times, Published April 16, 2010
Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa performs some 250 brain operations a year and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles, along with 590 published abstracts and scientific platform presentations.

Dentist uses her skills for humanitarian efforts
By CC Times, Published April 15, 2010
Usa means perseverance in Thai. Thailand-born Usa Bunnag was given the name by her fortuneteller grandfather as a mixture of prophecy and motivation.

Abuse victim helps others in similar circumstances
By CC Times, Published April 13, 2010
Vivyan Adair is a tenured professor and nationally recognized women’s studies scholar. But in mid-1986, she was a destitute and homeless victim of spousal abuse.

Turning an agriculture degree into a billion bucks
By CC Times, Published April 13, 2010
Dennis Albaugh has good reasons to be grateful to Des Moines Area Community College. In fact according to Forbes, which in 2009 ranked the "prince of pesticides" number 468 on its list of the world’s richest people, Albaugh has somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 billion reasons to be grateful.

Transfer of wealth creates new funding opportunities
By Robin Johnston and Al Penson, Published April 1, 2010
There’s an urban legend which holds that community college graduates who go on to earn degrees at other institutions develop a stronger loyalty to the college that granted their highest degree.

Even in an economic downturn, states must support higher ed
By Paul Lingenfelter, Published February 11, 2010
The enrollment and finance data from the 2009 State Higher Education Finance report and the recently released Grapevine survey of appropriations for fiscal year (FY) 2010 make it clear: Higher education in the U.S. is at a critical juncture.

Investments are down, but donations are up
By Matthew Dembicki, Published February 2, 2009
Investment portfolios of most community college foundations have taken it on the chin over the past year. But, despite the recession, many two-year college foundations are seeing a spike in donations, from small, individual contributions to grants from companies and foundations.

Fund raising a priority during economic slump
By JOHN PULLEY, Published November 11, 2008
A sharp decline in the value of the endowment at Montgomery County Community College (MCCC) in Pennsylvania will force the institution to cut financial aid next year. One in every five scholarships could vanish.