Most Americans don’t realize state funding for higher ed fell by billions
Hechinger Report
At a time when so many employers are struggling to find workers who have university degrees, community college student Tyler Duffield thinks supporting higher education is as obvious an obligation of state government as it is essential.
Commentary: How New Jersey is offering opportunity through tuition-free community college
Forbes
Recognizing the importance of education beyond high school in today’s innovation economy, New Jersey has set a goal of having 65 percent of working-age adults hold a postsecondary degree or high-quality certificate by 2025. The Community College Opportunity Grant offers a path towards addressing affordability, but it is only one part of the solution.
In Tennessee, a model for Michigan’s plan for debt-free community college
Bridge Magazine
If you want to know the impact Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed college aid expansion, look 500 miles south to Tennessee, where a nearly identical program has been up and running since 2014.
Cal State remedial education reforms help thousands more students pass college-level math classes
Los Angeles Times
The first results are in for the Cal State system’s controversial move last year to eliminate non-credit remedial classes and replace them with regular courses, buttressed with extra support, that count toward an undergraduate degree.
The largest skills gap managers see in IT workers isn’t technical
Quartz at Work
A new Cisco survey indicates IT departments are missing the skill most necessary for them to inhabit a central role to a company’s strategy: business acumen.
