Entrepreneur
Community colleges are moving past their pandemic-era enrollment losses as students seek affordable education with a clearer, faster route to a job.
Chalkbeat Colorado
The Commerce City Promise, which will end this year, offers insight into the potential demand and work required to connect students and certificates to Workforce Pell.
Arkansas Community Colleges
From workforce training to college degrees, community colleges are the hometown provider of job training for students and employers across the state. Yet traditional higher education metrics have long overlooked much of that impact.
Work Shift
Without a framework that accounts for community value alongside earnings, federal policy’s earnings-first logic risks becoming the default lens through which states approve, fund, and sunset all credentials, not just those supported by Workforce Pell. That could lead states to eliminate programs their communities need most, while keeping outdated ones that happen to lead to slightly higher-paying but dead-end jobs.
Sacramento Bee
Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief of staff and potential presidential candidate, accused President Donald Trump of degrading what he called a “premier brand of America” — the nation’s higher education institutions. But, he said at the California Community Colleges’ Futures Summit this week that a new president can undo that harm and upgrade American higher education.
