For growing community colleges, classroom space is often the limit EdNC North Carolina community college enrollment officially surpassed pre-pandemic levels this year, with seven colleges logging full-time equivalent student growth of more than 30% since…
Community college leaders should pay attention to something that happened in the youth labor market this summer. After a quarter-century decline, summer employment of 16- to 19-year-olds ticked up to 35.5% from 33.8% last year,…
A new Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia study is challenging a common assumption in workforce development: that apprenticeships and college are separate or competing pathways. Instead, researchers found that apprenticeships and postsecondary education are often…
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is among 19 higher education organizations endorsing a national effort to make it easier for students to receive credit for learning they have already completed, whether through previous…
Community colleges looking to strengthen workforce programs and respond to local labor shortages have a new resource at their disposal. A new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce finds that…
As Pell grants expand, students see openings to afford short-term job training Associated Press The expansion of the Pell grants to short-term programs has been a decade in the making, notes Jim Hermes, associate vice…
1M apprentices, 2 years to go Work Shift Marek Laco, acting assistant secretary of the Labor Department’s Employment and Training Administration, says DOL expects a combination of moves made in the last year to help…
Community colleges aim to connect the education they offer to work. Now the workplace itself is a major site of learning. That creates an opportunity and a challenge for community colleges. Artificial intelligence, workforce platforms,…
British kids are skipping top colleges for white-collar apprenticeships Wall Street Journal The British experience offers lessons for the U.S., where students and families have also come to question the value of a four-year college…
A $1 million grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation will expand access to construction education at Metropolitan Community College (MCC) in Nebraska. The grant includes $750,000 for improvements supporting construction education and $250,000 in scholarships…