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Commentary: Making the most of competency-based hiring Governing It’s not enough for public and private employers to simply drop college degree requirements. State governments have a crucial role in matching workers and employers based on…
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Photos submitted by member colleges of the American Association of Community Colleges. Prince George’s Community College student trustee Sade Davis introduced President Joe Biden, who visited the Maryland college on September 14 to deliver a…
Fostering Latino student success
An early childhood education program at Reading Area Community College (RACC) in Pennsylvania looks to improve the skills and successes of Latino workers in those jobs. A community health worker program at Chicago’s Richard J….
Leveling up: Realizing Black learner excellence at community colleges
There’s no better place to see the transformative potential of postsecondary education than the community college, where Black learners like Tommy McCall, a 2023 Tallahassee Community College graduate and an Achieving the Dream DREAM Scholar,…
Using LMI to help disadvantaged students
The odds were long, but in August 2022 a consortium led by Dallas College emerged as one of only 32 worker-centered, industry-led workforce training partnerships in the nation to receive a multimillion federal grant to…
Tapping powerful labor market information for agility
In 2020, after more than 200 years, the Remington Arms factory in Ilion, New York, shut its doors, and nearly 250 mainly skilled labor employees without college degrees were let go. But fortunately, Mohawk Valley…
A sample of enrollment jumps and reasons behind them
Other community colleges that responded to CC Daily’s inquiry also mostly have positive numbers to report as of August. Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland was up 4.4% in headcount and 6.3% in full-time equivalent (FTE)…
More money and much, much more
The ability to land a better job and earn more money is typically the top response when countering skeptics about the value of higher education, but a new study from Gallup and Lumina Foundation shows…
Next cohort of colleges selected for MentorLinks
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has announced a new cohort for the MentorLinks: Advancing Technological Education program with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The MentorLinks initiative pairs experienced community college mentors…
Starting early and staying the course
The crucial first step in achieving student success in rural, low-income areas is to burst affordability and class access paradigms and get students in the door to start their education. Many low-income parents falsely assume…