A number of recent articles have highlighted the value of career and technical education (CTE) at the individual and system levels. Kimberly Green/ Kate KreamerKimberly Green is executive director of Advance CTE, a national nonprofit…
Several House Republicans this week spoke on the House floor about the importance of more broadly promoting career and technical education to help reduce the skills gap. Matthew Dembickiis editor of Community College Daily.More Posts
For community colleges and their students, perhaps the biggest highlight of the fiscal year (FY) 2018 omnibus appropriations bill was the $175 increase to the Pell Grant maximum award, which will be $6,095 in award…
Ten years ago, Delgado Community College in New Orleans received about 70 percent of its revenue from state funding, Chancellor Joan Davis says. Dennis Pierceis an education writer based in Boston.More Posts
The Aspen Institute has announced finalists for its 2019 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, which can be bundled into threes: Three are from Florida (two of which have made the finalist list three times),…
A blue-ribbon task force that examined the barriers and potential of apprenticeships in workforce development is recommending a pilot program to test “industry-recognized” apprenticeships in fields that don’t have well-established registered apprenticeships. Daily StaffCCDaily is…
Whenever a serial child molester or sex trafficker is caught, there’s a good chance the investigators were trained by the National Criminal Justice Training Center (NCJTC), based at Fox Valley Technical College in Wisconsin. Ellie…
Sandra Kurtinitis, president of the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in Maryland, will become chair of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) board of directors on July 1, succeeding Mary S. Graham, president…
Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) is so overwhelmed by requests from local business and industry to help produce skilled workers that the college has primarily focused on “risk-of-flight” companies — firms that can move to…
Nearly one in five students at community colleges and four-year universities who don’t graduate have completed three-quarters or more of credits required for a degree, according to a new study. One in 10 who don’t…