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Funding roundup

A $100,000 grant from Truist Foundation will fund a pipe rack simulator for Greenville Technical College’s new Center for Welding and Automation Excellence (CWAE). The investment will provide students with additional training opportunities as they…


Funding roundup

Representatives from Hyundai Motor America this month delivered a $10,000 check to Holyoke Community College (HCC) in Massachusetts to benefit the college’s food pantry. This is the fifth consecutive year Hyundai Motor America has donated…


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Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) was at Iowa Western Community College’s Atlantic Rural Center last week to announce a $900,000 federal investment to expand skilled-trades labs at both the Atlantic and Clarinda Rural Centers. “This investment…


Enamait to lead AACC board of directors

John Enamait, president of North Carolina’s Stanly Community College, will become chair of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) board of directors on July 1, succeeding Leigh Goodson, president of Tulsa Community College (Oklahoma)….


Funding roundup

Dutchess Community College (DCC) will use $3 million in grant funds from New York state to support capital improvements and programming to the Center of Excellence for Business, Industry & Innovation (COEBII). The expansion will…


Funding roundup

The Duke Energy Foundation is investing $600,000 to strengthen North Carolina’s energy workforce, including $500,000 for 20 North Carolina community colleges and $100,000 for two regional partners expanding access to high-demand training programs aligned with…



Keep eLearning weird

If you’ve experienced a workplace printer malfunction or become a little too irritated when a coworker didn’t return a stapler, scenes from the 1999 movie “Office Space” likely flashed through your mind. The snarky classic,…


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…


How AI can transform student creativity, strategic thinking

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly moved from novelty to inevitability in higher education. Students are already using AI tools, sometimes productively, sometimes problematically, often without clear guidance from faculty. The question is no longer whether…