While acknowledging COVID-19 challenges, speakers at the 2020 Virtual ATE Principal Investigators’ Conference this week complimented the resiliency of the 1,050 people attending the meeting. They urged them to move through difficulties to strengthen their…
The use of multiple measures for placement results in more students taking college-level English and math, according to a new study by the Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness (CAPR). And students who are…
Grants from the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program not only help faculty test their ideas for innovative STEM technician programs, but they are also a funding source that helps community colleges become…
Irving McPhail, a leader in higher education, has died from complications of the coronavirus. He was 71. Irving McPhail A titan of leadership, McPhail left an indelible impression on the community college sector. The founding…
As the pandemic continues, so has Lone Star College-CyFair Professor Robert O’Brien’s journal project – an opportunity for his students living in this most unprecedented of times to share their frustrations, fears and hopes through…
Community colleges throughout the country are creating contact tracing courses to meet the urgent demand for trained people able to track COVID-19 infections and thus slow the spread of the disease. States and localities in…
Community colleges should better align their noncredit workforce training with their credit programs aimed at transfer students, the Education Strategy Group (ESG) recommends. Having two separate tracks “has resulted in a bifurcated institutional structure that…
The virtual editions of the Quantway and Statway math courses are boosting students’ successful course completion rates by three to four times the rate of more traditional course sequences, a study by WestEd finds. The…
While most community colleges have seen a dip in fall enrollments, a sliver of them have actually seen their numbers increase – and it wasn’t by happenstance. To date, public two-year colleges nationally have seen…
It is March 9th, and Anisa, a young, soon-to-be community college graduate, has an approved graduation application and is excited to be the first in her family to earn a college degree and transfer to…