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ANOTHER GENERATION HOME FROM WAR

The new GI Bill, which goes into effect next year, will provide veterans and military personnel with enough aid to attend the most expensive public college in their states. Nonetheless, people like Anthony Mabutol (above, at Tidewater Community College) prefer the convenience of two-year and for-profit colleges. (Photograph by Heather S. Hughes)

Selected Articles (For Chronicle Subscribers)

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: At a meeting of college business officers, four community-college presidents describe how they have integrated greener practices into campus operations.

UNDISCLOSED SUM: A community college in Iowa has agreed to settle with an instructor who said he was fired last fall for teaching the biblical story of Adam and Eve as a myth.

URGENT REQUEST: The Education Department hastens to survey students about credit transfers, and at least one community-college official wonders, What's the hurry?

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DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS: Two competing visions of education help explain the tension between jobs and ideas that all community colleges grapple with, writes M. Garrett Bauman.

NEW MATH: Some colleges are trying new ways to move students more quickly and smoothly through remedial math.

CAMPUS TREASURE: Instructors at City College of San Francisco make the college's Diego Rivera mural an everyday part of the curriculum.

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK: In rural areas, arts programs at colleges provide a rich diet for culture-starved residents.

12 TEACHING TIPS: Community-college instructors offer ideas for the classroom.

GOOD CITIZENSHIP: Most community-college leaders give little thought to the role their colleges play in their communities, George B. Vaughan says.

NONTRADITIONAL LEARNERS: Colleges are not keeping up with changes in the way adults pursue their education, says Charlene R. Nunley.

SCARCE INFORMATION: Students need to know much more about how to transfer to four-year institutions, Stephen J. Handel writes.

BOILING POINT: Bob Blaisdell reflects on the day he lost it in front of his students.

A SPECIAL ROLE: Rural community colleges are meeting the needs of a changing and increasingly diverse population, Stephen G. Katsinas says.

INFLUENCE OVERSEAS: Community colleges can play an important role in fostering world peace, writes David J. Smith.

CLASSROOM OBSESSIONS: Charlotte Laws says that too many instructors emphasize grades and attendance, to the detriment of creativity and responsibility.

CHALLENGES OF POVERTY: Kathleen Sheerin DeVore says it is her job to help students complete their assignments amid the chaos of their lives.

ATTENTION BILLIONAIRES: Big donors should consider giving to community colleges if they really want to help the nation's students, writes Catherine Stukel.