Request for proposals: MentorLinks colleges Foreign multinationals’ workforce needs Request for proposals: MentorLinks colleges The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is pleased to announce a national grant competition for the MentorLinks: Advancing Technological Education…
Updated guidance to serve former inmates DOL awards grants for pre-apprenticeships Updated guidance to serve former inmates The U.S. Education Department (ED) has updated its guidance for colleges that serve formerly incarcerated individuals. The 2023…
In teaching online and hybrid classes for nearly a dozen years, Blinn College English professor Becky Almany spotted a curious trend. It wasn’t the content that often tripped up students in her courses. It was…
Saying that it’s time for open educational resources (OER) is almost a truism in higher education. The percentage of faculty across all sectors of U.S. higher education who say they use OER for their introductory…
A dozen student teams from community colleges will participate in the final round of the Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC), an annual national competition that asks two-year college student teams to develop STEM-based solutions to…
Three decades ago, only the rare community college leader understood what the Internet was and even fewer had used Gopher and ARPANET, earlier forms of the medium that evolved into today’s World Wide Web. Today,…
In a tight labor market, technical training is everything Marketplace The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis observes in its new “Beige Book” report that investment in technical training has increased in its district. The…
The unique, wide-ranging apprenticeship program at Harper College in Illinois is thriving thanks to its broad reach and rigorous expectations across the board, officials say, and it’s paying off in several ways for the college…
The number of high school students enrolling in dual-enrollment programs at community colleges was steadily increasing prior to Covid and mushroomed during the pandemic — and continues to hold strong and grow even further in…
Facing enrollment declines that date to the Great Recession and accelerated during the worst of the pandemic, community colleges are redoubling their focus on student-readiness to seem — and become — as welcoming as possible…