Funding roundup
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers aren’t the only Super Bowl winners this season. Florida’s St. Petersburg College (SPC) has received a $15,000 grant from the Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV Host Committee to support a local…
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers aren’t the only Super Bowl winners this season. Florida’s St. Petersburg College (SPC) has received a $15,000 grant from the Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV Host Committee to support a local…
Last year, just as Covid-19 was beginning to spread and many colleges and universities across the country were scrambling to send students home to finish their spring semesters online, CC Daily ran this piece, “Coronavirus,…
The air temperature is 24 degrees Fahrenheit, feeling more like 19 in this breeze, and the water, just under this 4-inch mantle of ice, is 32. Across campus, her contemporaries enrolled in Butler County Community…
House Democrats pass Biden’s $1.9T relief plan despite setback on minimum wageWashington PostThe vote closed early Saturday morning, with Republicans repeatedly decrying the legislation as a partisan boondoggle and Democrats defending it as much-needed relief….
More ED political appointeesData on spring enrollments delayedWho should cover education, training costs? More ED political appointees The U.S. Education Department on Thursday announced more political appointees for its various offices, including a senior research…
The presence of African-American presidents, staff and faculty has played a key role in advancing the open-door policy and primary mission of the American community college system. During the 1960s and 1970s, community college campuses…
Higher education is at a point of inflection in which it must decide its purpose in America. President Joe Biden’s plan to offer the first two years of college tuition-free has created an imbalance in…
Black students are succeeding in college at higher rates, but far behind white peers, report saysLos Angeles TimesIt took 10 years for Jamaal Muwwakkil, who grew up in Compton and was the first in his…
Juan Gallegos was a junior in high school when he decided to attend College of DuPage (COD) after graduation to study culinary arts. Wanting to get a jump start on his college journey, he enrolled…
What a federal plan to offer free community college could mean for ArizonaKJZZRufus Glasper, president and CEO of the League for Innovation in the Community College and chancellor emeritus of the Maricopa Community College System,…