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How employers view an associate degreeU.S. News & World Report“What we’re seeing at the national level is large companies looking at community colleges to advance their own workforce,” says Martha Parham, senior vice president for…
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Funding roundup
A $10 million gift will allow Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) to modernize its business building and transform its School of Business. The gift from the Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation is the…
Community college: a place for students of all backgrounds and experiences
One person worked in a grocery store; another waited on tables. A third didn’t know what to do after high school. And then there was the high-achieving high school sophomore. For all four, a turning…
Final regs on Pell grants for prison ed
The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Thursday released final regulations that will usher the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for individuals in prison that is set to begin next summer. More than 760,000 people in…
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Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees get free weekly English lessons at EvCCHerald NetWashington’s Snohomish County is home to 1,905 refugees from Ukraine. Refugee and Immigrant Services Northwest is helping them to build new lives. Your guide…
Look deeper for student potential
Educators can better help students realize their full potential if they look beyond IQ and other standard measures of intelligence and consider their current level of competence, life skills, passion and inspiration to succeed, the…
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New CEOs Emmett Griswold has been named president of Albany Technical College in Georgia, effective November 1. He has served as interim president since June. Griswold started at the college as a criminal justice instructor…
DataPoints: Sifting through new Perkins data
The U.S. Education Department this week released Perkins program data culled from state reports submitted for the 2020-21 program year, which is the first year to include data under Perkins V. The information is presented…
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Onondaga Community College gets ready for the arrival of President BidenCNYCentralOnondaga Community College has canceled classes on Thursday to accommodate President Joe Biden arriving on the campus to deliver remarks on the multi-billion-dollar Micron facility…
Back in their line of work
Luis Espinoza’s ordeal to be able to practice as a nurse in the U.S. is a cautionary tale. Despite immigrating from Mexico to Chicago in 1999 with a nursing degree and returning to obtain a…