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Improving STEM career readiness: Lessons from Denmark

After a year in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a Fulbright Scholar, Saint Paul College (SPC) biology professor Kristyn VanderWaal Mills returned with a clearer picture of how different education systems prepare students for careers in science…



Fostering student AI fluency for career readiness

“You go ’round and around itYou go over and underI go through…” Those lines from the song “I Go Through” by O.A.R. feel uncomfortably familiar in higher education right now. Artificial intelligence (AI) did not…


Looking at optics through a new lens

The optical systems technology program at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, was founded in the 1960s as the feeder program to train technicians for Kodak, Xerox, Bausch & Lomb and more than 150…


The value of innovation

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has been a champion of STEM technician education at community college for 75 years, navigating generations of students to sustainable career opportunities. That progress is now jeopardized by extensive…


A revamped federal approach to workforce development

The U.S. departments of Labor, Commerce and Education on Tuesday released their blueprint to revamp the federal government’s approach to workforce development. The departments, which were directed in April by President Donald Trump via executive…


Reporter’s notebook

Rhode Island’s new online RN-to-BSN program Wisconsin partnership opens nursing, teaching degree paths Tennessee college provides scholarships to study abroad Kids on Campus project making Head Start connections Rhode Island’s new online RN-to-BSN program The…


Filling gaps and fueling futures

Technology is a double-edged sword: The more it can do, the more complex knowledge we need to use it. In fact, a 2023 study from Deloitte found that nearly 90% of technology leaders interviewed cited…


Newsmakers

New CEOs Deborah Casey will become the third president of Maryland’s Wor-Wic Community College, effective August 14. She is currently vice president of student affairs at Green River College (Washington). Casey has served in higher…


Newsmakers

CEOs on the move Shah Ardalan has been named the seventh president of Randolph Community College (RCC) in North Carolina. He is currently president of Lone Star College (LSC)-University Park in Houston, RCC’s board noted…