Building your brand
Many community colleges have been in their communities for decades, and some take it for granted that campus stakeholders, prospective students and their families, and the public at large understand who they are and what…
Articles by Ed Finkel
Wisconsin’s workforce success
The announcement that Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn will bring 13,000 jobs to Wisconsin and partner with Gateway Technical College is great news for the state’s community and technical colleges and their students, but it’s not…
Earning for prior learning
The concept that “time is money” applies to the life outlook of community college students as much as anyone. Their success in completing a degree or certificate is often an equation that weighs their financial…
Being good neighbors
Community colleges traditionally have provided a combination of liberal arts education and/or career training, depending on a student’s goals and outlook. Ed FinkelEd Finkel is an education writer based in Illinois.More Posts
Getting in sync
Community college presidents and board members come and go. But a major driver of the continued success of two-year colleges is how fruitfully the relationships between CEOs and their boards evolve over time — from…
Forging ahead on training
Community colleges always have played an integral role in training workers for infrastructure- and transportation-related fields like truck driving, construction, welding and electrical work. Ed FinkelEd Finkel is an education writer based in Illinois.More Posts
It starts with a conversation
The music department at Los Angeles City College (LACC) received scholarship contributions of about $100,000 over the course of a decade starting in the early 2000s from the Herb Alpert Foundation after connecting with Alpert’s…
International inspirations
As the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) expands its Registered Apprenticeship College Consortium (RACC) among community colleges and employer partners, those involved are looking to countries like Germany and Switzerland for inspiration. In some cases,…