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• California Community Colleges Help Foster Dreams
  Former wards of the state now have advocates at public institutions.
   
  Andom, Mary (2007, November 9) California Community Colleges Help Foster Dreams. The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i11/11a03101.htm
   
• Beware of Using Social-Networking Sites to Monitor Students, Lawyers Say 
  Lawyers, professors, student-affairs administrators, and others discussed the uses and misuses of social-networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, and related sites, like YouTube, where anyone can post video clips.

Van Der Werf, M. (2007, March 2). Beware of Using Social-Networking Sites to Monitor Students, Lawyers Say. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from March 2, 2007.
 

• Community colleges draw four-year grads
  A growing number of graduates from four-year universities are enrolling at community colleges to changes careers or to learn marketable skills.
  
  Published June 25, 2007 By Lanita Withers The News & Record of Greensboro