At her Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon said that she continues to support a wider array of postsecondary education and training pathways and reiterated her wish to see Pell grants…
Higher education advocates are watching how the Trump administration’s canceling this week of nearly $900 million in contracts supporting the functions of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) may affect various Education Department (ED) tools…
Sixteen years ago, I stepped into the world of higher education. I never imagined I would find myself here, serving as a community college president of Bay College in central Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.) If…
The community college creating a home base for transition-age foster students Ed Source One student’s experience a semester into new housing reserved for transition-age youth at Pasadena City College. Keeping service in his family; Why…
Lone Star College (LSC) students now have access to more technology. Comcast has provided more than $100,000 in equipment for students at LSC-Kingwood and LSC-Montgomery to ensure students have the technology and digital literacy needed…
During a House appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday that focused on the role of community colleges in preparing Americans for jobs, several GOP lawmakers questioned a panel of witnesses — which included a community college…
A new report from Achieving the Dream (ATD) offers early findings from 15 community colleges participating in an ATD initiative that focuses on “community vibrancy,” which aims to expand access to higher education, create greater…
DOGE slashes millions from Education Department research USA Today The U.S. Department of Education moved to terminate nearly $1 billion in research contracts on Monday, a decision critics said depleted the government of vital data…
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) this month again reintroduced bipartisan legislation to allow Pell grants to be used for certain short-term, high-quality workforce development programs. Kaine, along with Sens. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Monday announced it is nixing recently revised data collection requirements for Perkins V programs. ED called the Biden administration requirements “a misguided regulatory reporting scheme” that would require states…