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Wednesday, August 31, 2011  Students receiving certain scholarships at Missouri colleges and universities this year will be getting near the bare minimum allowed under state law.

Thursday, February 24, 2011  Loebsack met with students and teachers to discuss the importance of investing in education and job training.

Friday, February 04, 2011  A record number of students completed degree or certification programs at Illinois community colleges during Fiscal Year 2010.

Thursday, November 18, 2010  Community colleges in Iowa are seeing record enrollment with nearly 106,600 students at the state's 15 community colleges'.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010  Missouri's community colleges have set another enrollment record.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010  Quinn will appear at Morton Community College in the western Chicago suburb of Cicero on Tuesday morning.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009  Obama proposes investing $12 billion in community colleges to help teach, train more people

Wednesday, January 16, 2008  A budget battle is brewing at the Statehouse over money for Iowa's community colleges.