JBLA in the Media
JBLA is frequently discussed in the media and our expertise is often solicited for comment by education journals and news publications.
Selected media hits include:
“Connecting Students to Aid”
5/20/2010 – Inside Higher Ed
“New College Board Report Finds Millions in Financial Aid Go Unclaimed at Community Colleges”
5/19/2010 – PR Newswire
“Accountability Effort for Community Colleges Pushes Forward, and Other Meeting Notes”
4/19/2010 – The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription Required)
“Migrants get colleges’ nod”
3/20/2010 – newsobserver.com
“The District’s New Community College Gets Rave Review”
12/3/2009 – The Washington Informer
“Report urges separation for UDC's 2-year college”
11/20/2009 – Washington Post
“NC Community Colleges to Enroll Undocumented Students”
9/22/2009 – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
“N.C. system OKs admitting undocumented immigrants”
9/18/2009 – Community College Times
“NC community colleges to enroll illegal immigrants”
9/18/2009 – WMBF News
“Community colleges OK illegal immigrants”
9/18/2009 – charlotteobserver.org
“Illegal immigrants’ tuition pays way”
3/20/2009 - Greensboro News
“An interview with William Munn, JBL Associates program coordinator and research associate, about Community Colleges CAN”
12/23/08 - EducationNews.org
“Breadth of Adjunct Use and Abuse”
12/3/2008 - Inside Higher Education
“Nearly Half of Undergraduate Courses are Taught by Non-Tenure-Track Instructors”
12/3/2008 - The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription Required)
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“A Historically Black College Takes a Hands-on Approach to Student Success”
3/23/2007 - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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“They jump to those claims”
2/26/2007 - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“John B. Lee is president and founder of JBL Associates Inc., a prominent higher-education-research firm in Bethesda, Md. Recently the American Federation of Teachers retained him to assess the research that purports to find a liberal predominance and bias in academe. He reviewed eight studies…. Mr. Lee found problems with each of the studies he reviewed. On the eve of the release of Mr. Lee's study, The Chronicle's John Gravois sat down with him to discuss the problems he sees with measuring bias.”
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“Bias Seen in Bias Studies”
1/22/2007 - Inside Higher Education