The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Monday officially resumed collections on defaulted federal student loans, as recent reports indicate delinquency rates are higher than ever. Those who don’t resume payments risk withholdings from Social Security…
In 2014, three Ohio colleges set out to improve access and success outcomes for low-income students by adapting the City University of New York’s (CUNY) innovative Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP). A new report…
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has directed the National Science Foundation (NSF) to terminate active grants. More than 1,000 awards have already been cancelled, with more terminations expected. This comes as Congress considers severe…
Community colleges awarded more than 1.45 million credentials in the 2022-23 academic year, representing a 21% increase from the 1.19 million awarded 10 years earlier in 2012-13. The total number of credentials awarded was…
A record number of student teams from community colleges across the country competed this year in the annual Community College Innovation Challenge, with the American Association of Community Colleges announcing on Tuesday that 12 teams…
Humanities professors and administrators from all 18 public community colleges in New Jersey spent a full day at Princeton University this month for a conference focused on increasing the vitality of the humanities in the…
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…