Editor’s note: This article kicks off a series that will examine some of the topics and sessions that will be featured at the American Association of Community Colleges’ annual convention, which will be held April…
Editor’s note: This Q&A comes from an edited transcript of an interview with Melanie Booth, executive director of HLC Credential Lab. Melanie Booth Melanie Booth, executive director of the Higher Learning Commission’s (HLC) new Credential…
The Biden administration on Monday unveiled its fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget, marking the formal start of the annual federal budget and appropriations cycle. The budget is being released about a month later than usual….
Thanks to a new $150,000 grant from the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, Minnesota State Community and Technical College is enhancing its educational and entrepreneurial support services for women and gender-expansive students. The “We Thrive” grant…
A looming Pell Grant funding cliff? Politico’s Weekly Education An expected shortfall in the Pell Grant program in the coming year — or at least in the next few years — could send lawmakers scrambling…
Our nation finds itself facing a modern-day Sputnik moment. Americans were shocked in 1957 with the news the Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite into the Earth’s orbit. It was a disheartening defeat…
New CEO Andrew W. White will be the next president of Cleveland State Community College in Tennessee, as of April 1. He most recently was senior director of the Fast Forward program at Belmont University…
President Joe Biden has proclaimed March 2024 Women’s History Month, marking the 30th presidential proclamation of this annual event. The first national celebration began in 1981, when Congress passed a proclamation recognizing Women’s History Week….
El Paso Community College to launch welding courses for La Tuna inmates El Paso Matters El Paso Community College has entered into a contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to teach incarcerated students the…
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard in June 2023 that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, some…