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…
Audit finds Linn-Benton Community College a leader in data-driven success Albany Democrat-Herald The Oregon college collects data to determine which new programs to launch and which are no longer needed. It takes a while to…
In an action that echoes the Obama administration’s wildly unpopular college ratings system, the U.S. Education Department is formally soliciting public input on the creation of a list of higher education programs that provide “low…
Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) and Worcester State University have received grants totaling $1.6 million from the governor’s administration to expand capacity to meet the continuing demand for skilled nurses in Massachusetts. The $1 million grant…