President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order (EO) entitled “Preparing Americans for High-Paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future” that orders the secretaries of Commerce, Education and Labor to take specified actions to…
President Trump on Wednesday signed a long-anticipated executive order (EO) on accreditation. The document begins by stating that “the accreditors’ job is to determine which institutions provide a quality education. Unfortunately, accreditors have not only…
Newly redesigned Carnegie Classifications released today intend to better reflect how higher education is changing and to make them more useful to stakeholders. Two main classification updates were announced Thursday by the Carnegie Foundation for…
Towering cranes dominated the skyline, but the spotlight was on one, donned with an American flag. Its steel arm lifted the last massive beam to form the structure of Ford Motor Company’s new 2.7 million-square-foot Ohio…
A new brief from California Competes highlights promising practices gathered from 10 California community colleges on their efforts to recruit and retain adult learners who lack a college degree. The state has 6.8 million adults…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Strengthening Community College Training (SCCT) Grants Program is the only dedicated source of funding for community colleges in the nation’s primary workforce development law, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity…
Montgomery College (MC) has long served as a workforce development anchor in our community. So, when sudden federal workforce reductions hit Maryland, we responded with speed, strategy and heart. Our approach focused on five key…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In 2015, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) launched the Pathways Project, which presented a model that was outcomes-focused rather than access-oriented. A decade later, the Community College Research Center (CCRC)…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) wanted to get a better understanding of the partnerships its 16 colleges had with business and industry, it launched a systemwide “mapping” initiative…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — About four years ago, in the midst of the Covid pandemic, Long Beach City College (LBCC) held a student climate survey to gauge how its students were doing. The results were “devastating,”…