As Colorado’s population and economy continues to boom, employer demand for skilled workers is at an all-time high. Sarah Heathis state director for career and technical education and associate vice chancellor at the Colorado Community…
The White House on Monday issued an overview of what it would like to see in the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), which didn’t include any major surprises. But it did include a…
During a House hearing Wednesday on college costs, it was the testimony of a community college graduate who summed up the challenges that many two-year college students face, as well as the college services available…
The Senate education committee on Tuesday started a new round of hearings to reauthorize the Higher Education Act with something almost all Republicans and Democrats could agree on: Simplify the federal student aid application as…
With the release of most of its fiscal year 2020 budget, the Trump administration has put forth its spending and policy priorities, which Congress will now consider as it deliberates federal spending for the coming…
While The Trump administration’s 2020 budget proposal calls for deep cuts to discretionary spending overall, for postsecondary education it would continue to focus on efforts to improve career preparation, especially on the career and technical…
A blue-ribbon workforce advisory board addressed a wide range of issues at its first meeting in Washington, D.C., including raising the profile of good-paying jobs in career and technical fields, emphasizing skills development rather than…
The top Democrat on the Senate education committee would like to see more investments in community colleges and other institutions that historically serve students who have been underrepresented in higher education. Matthew Dembickiis editor of…
Over three intense days during Mentor-Connect’s 2019 Technical Assistance and Grant Writing Workshop, faculty, administrators and grant writers on teams from 22 community colleges began as strangers — sometimes people from the same campus who…
From a new initiative by former second lady Jill Biden, to a proposed pilot program in New York announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, efforts to help adult women learners at community colleges succeed is very…