A commitment to count all learning
Community colleges offer many ways for people to develop new skills that prepare them for good jobs that pay a living wage or better. More and more, these learners are looking for ways to get…
Academic Programs
Welcome to the Great Retraining
The Great Resignation has led to the Great Retraining, especially in the technology workforce, according to a new report from the Cengage Group. The global education technology company this fall re-surveyed Great Resigners — those…
Ore. college prepares for growth in corrections ed
After a more than 20 years hiatus, Pell grants for people in prisons interested in pursuing higher education is back, and Portland Community College (PCC) is at the center of a state-funded program to help…
Ensuring a smooth re-entry
A widely cited Emory University study found that while 76% of incarcerated Americans return to prison within five years, that rate drops to 55% for those who take high school classes, 30% for those who…
ED grants aim to improve educational opportunities, outcomes
Several community colleges are among the institutions getting federal grant funding to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for students from underrepresented communities. U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Friday announced 38 awards totaling more than…
2023 AACC Awards of Excellence finalists
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has announced the finalists for its 2023 Awards of Excellence, which underscore the association’s priorities and brings national visibility to promising practices among its member colleges. Winners will…
Kickstarting a biotech program at Compton
The MentorLinks application requires faculty members to obtain their college president’s signature on their application. That request led to a conversation between Compton College President Keith Curry and Katherine A. Marsh, an assistant professor of biology,…
Competition fosters STEM ideas to address real-world problems
The application for the 2023 Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) opens on January 17. The competition gives teams of community college students the opportunity to win cash prizes and gain experts’ advice on their innovative…
Fall of a mall, rise of an incubator
For Michael Heindl, president of Northwest Mississippi Community College (NWCC), opportunity knocked when a major new mall at the Mississippi-Tennessee border, the Tanger Outlets Southaven, opened in 2015 and began pulling shoppers and then retailers…
Attaining support to develop a cybersecurity workforce
Since October 2019, when the three-person team from Big Sandy Community and Technical College (Kentucky) mapped out a plan with their MentorLinks Mentor Davina Pruitt-Mentle to launch an associate of applied science degree with a…