CalMatters
California’s community colleges have been trying for several years to offer more bachelor’s degrees. This year, they put their hopes in two sweeping bills designed to help them do that. But lawmakers made massive, last-minute changes that prompted the state’s community colleges to now oppose the legislation.
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin’s technical college system is requesting a 5.4% budget increase tSo expand its dual enrollment and adult learning programs and to provide more workers for professions facing job shortages.
San Antonio Report
As some San Antonio college students learned about refrigeration, electrical work, and more on Thursday, top leaders with the National Center for Construction Education and Research and the Association of General Contractors of America watched over their shoulders, eager to learn about the skills they will soon enter the market with.
Higher Ed Dive
Policymakers and education leaders can prove the effectiveness of different paths so students know their options, writes an Urban Institute senior fellow.
World Economic Forum
One of the most underappreciated tools for fostering AI literacy and talent is the open-access institution that sits between secondary school and university. In North America, they’re called community or technical colleges.
ECMC Foundation
Keith Curry, president of California’s Compton College, reflects on the heightened attention on community college leaders as they navigate Workforce Pell implementation.
