Upcoming events Register for AACC AnnualAACC Annual provides an opportunity for community college professionals to network and learn. The 2023 meeting will take place April 1-4 in Denver. Keynote speakers include former Daily Show host…
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has announced the finalists for its 2023 Awards of Excellence, which underscore the association’s priorities and brings national visibility to promising practices among its member colleges. Winners will…
With the pandemic years almost completely behind us, community colleges across the country now have several new challenges to work on. The large drop in student enrollment is the first. This began before the pandemic…
The MentorLinks application requires faculty members to obtain their college president’s signature on their application. That request led to a conversation between Compton College President Keith Curry and Katherine A. Marsh, an assistant professor of biology,…
New CEO Kristina Whalen will serve as Foothill College’s next president, effective March 31. A veteran educator with 25 years of experience in higher education, she is currently vice president of academic services at Las…
The application for the 2023 Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) opens on January 17. The competition gives teams of community college students the opportunity to win cash prizes and gain experts’ advice on their innovative…
College while in high school: How dual credit is aiming for equity Christian Science Monitor Almost four decades after Minnesota launched the first statewide program, a majority of high schools offer dual credit, and roughly…
CUNY phases out its last ‘remedial’ course, capping yearslong shift Chalkbeat New York New York City’s public community colleges, for the first time in decades, assigned no new students this year to “remedial” classes, marking…
For Michael Heindl, president of Northwest Mississippi Community College (NWCC), opportunity knocked when a major new mall at the Mississippi-Tennessee border, the Tanger Outlets Southaven, opened in 2015 and began pulling shoppers and then retailers…
Since October 2019, when the three-person team from Big Sandy Community and Technical College (Kentucky) mapped out a plan with their MentorLinks Mentor Davina Pruitt-Mentle to launch an associate of applied science degree with a…