Indian River State College (IRSC) has received a $1.9 million award from the Florida Department of Education as part of the Florida College System PIPELINE program. PIPELINE (Prepping Institutions, Programs, Employers and Learners through Incentives…
Pillen tax-cut ideas win support of business groups, prompt criticism from community colleges Nebraska Examiner Advocates for Nebraska community colleges maintain that the governor’s plan would hurt workforce training efforts and local control. Eastern Iowa…
CEO retirement announcement Jane Hulon Sims, president of Mississippi’s Copiah-Lincoln Community College, has announced that she plans to retire effective June 30, capping a 34-year career in education. During her tenure as president over the…
Higher education will play a key role in strengthening communities as we recover from the pandemic, and community college students are key to our economic prosperity. To ensure that students become the skilled workers and…
It’s still very early in the spring term, but a handful of community colleges in different parts of the country are gleefully — and hopefully — reporting enrollment increases for the new semester. The announcements…
‘It’s a big removal of a barrier’: What housing at California’s community colleges looks like CalMatters Two California community colleges built housing in the last couple of years, with very different approaches. In new strategic…
Shawn Cheshire rode across the country on her bicycle, depending on Jesse Crandall, a chemistry professor at Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC), to guide her every bit of the two-month, 3,700-mile trek. Cheshire is a…
Undergraduate enrollments seem to have stabilized this fall — including at community colleges — and there’s been an uptick among freshmen, with public two-year colleges seeing the biggest bump, according to final fall enrollment data…
DeSantis takes on the education establishment, and builds his brand New York Times Appearing on Tuesday at the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, one of the state’s 28 publicly funded state and community colleges, Florida…
Nearly one in two community college students received a grant through the federal Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) in 2021, which was critical to keeping many of them enrolled during the Covid pandemic, according…