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Where to get a low-cost bachelor’s degree close to home and a job lead: Community college Los Angeles Times A growing number of California’s 116 community colleges are venturing into higher education territory traditionally reserved…
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ED announces HSI grant recipients Service National Guard members ED announces HSI grant recipients The U.S. Education Department on Thursday announced it will award $37 million through 64 grants to colleges and institutions – including…
Building the clean-energy workforce
The U.S. Joint Economic Committee, a panel comprising lawmakers from both congressional chambers that reviews economic conditions to recommend improvements in economic policy, held a hearing Wednesday about job training for the clean-energy transition. Among…
More flexibility sought in WIOA for innovation
Flexibility was the word of the day at Wednesday’s House hearing on ways to revamp the nation’s main workforce development legislation. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), last reauthorized in 2014, doesn’t provide the…
Funding roundup
Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) will use a $5 million donation to develop and launch new programming in the gaming, hospitality and security industries and to support student scholarships. The gift from Bally’s Corporation…
Guidance on strong ATE grant pitches
Mentor-Connect now offers mentoring to community college faculty who have not had Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grants, even if their college has previously had awards from this National Science Foundation (NSF) program. The program pairs…
Gather, analyze and develop
Since 2022, the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) has administered its Skills for Success program through which Alabama community colleges across the state train employees in new careers. The training comprises self-paced online instruction followed…
Using LMI to help disadvantaged students
The odds were long, but in August 2022 a consortium led by Dallas College emerged as one of only 32 worker-centered, industry-led workforce training partnerships in the nation to receive a multimillion federal grant to…
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Columbus State Community College (Ohio) will launch a new national information technology center using a $7.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation as part of its Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The new National…
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Kankakee Community College has accepted $250,000 obtained through a legislative appropriation supported by the efforts of Illinois state Sen. Patrick Joyce. “Right now, we see a misalignment between the skills in our workforce and the…