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Trump gives colleges 14 days to get rid of DEI Inside Higher Ed In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even…
Campus Issues
Corporate partnerships helped spark Allegheny’s $90M campaign
The Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) tapped into an array of corporate partnerships as part of a fundraising initiative called the Pioneering Pittsburgh’s New Workforce Campaign, which blew past its original $65 million goal…
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Fewer California high school seniors are applying for financial aid. Some blame Trump’s immigration policies CalMatters Fewer California high school seniors are completing federal financial aid applications than in past years, which some analysts say…
AACC’s Bumphus to retire at year’s end
After a storied career spanning more than five decades, American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) President and CEO Walter G. Bumphus announced on Thursday that he will retire at the end of the year. “On…
McMahon: Workforce Pell and more CTE
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…
Advocacy quick hits: How will nixing ED research contracts affect IPEDS?
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…
Think radical imagination
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…
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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…
Funding roundup
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…
Workforce engines that provide economic mobility
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…