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The Division of Continuing Education & Workforce Development at Hostos Community College offers educational, career, and personal development opportunities designed to address the needs of the South Bronx, Bronx, and Upper Manhattan communities. Some of our offerings are free; most are available at a reasonable cost. We offer non-credit courses and certificate programs for adults, children and teens on weekday evenings, Saturdays and Sunday. We invite you to join the thousands of others who have enjoyed the caring, family-like atmosphere and academic excellence that have made Hostos unique among community colleges.

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500 Grand Concourse (149th Street)
B208
Bronx, NY 10451

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Jul 11th, 2012
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Pop quiz: Who's more nervous about starting school this year, you or your child? If it's you, "it's a very normal response to have," says Matthew Stevenson, LSW, a child and family therapist in Philadelphia. We asked him how parents can send thei...

Jul 9th, 2012
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The term "transformative learning" has been buzzing around higher education since the early '80s, when Teachers College of Columbia professor Jack Mezirow founded his influential theory. Put very simply, transformative learning is an "aha!" moment. For...

Jun 29th, 2012
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For college students teetering on a financial tightrope, the issue of loans just became a lot more complicated and troublesome  – $18 billion worth of trouble, to be exact – although some lawmakers and media outlets would have you beli...

Jun 27th, 2012
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In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, nearly all large colleges and universities now have behavioral intervention teams: a half-dozen or more campus staff -- including mental health counselors -- charged with identifying at-risk students and develo...

Jun 27th, 2012
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In defense of the trimester ... Stuart J. Lipper is the dean of the graduate school of business administration at Fordham University in New York City. How did Fordham arrive at a trimester system? The MBA has always been the largest master's program ...