Academic programs

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,…



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…


In tandem

Editor’s note: CC Daily today launches a new feature that provides briefs on various recently announced community college partnerships with business and industry, other higher education institutions and more. The goal is to share information…


Threading the needle with niche upholstery offering

The idea came in 1981, eight months into her pregnancy while she was staring at a “beat-up old rocker” that was still structurally sound. “I could recover that,” Kathy Foust thought to herself. A completely…


The perfect organizational structure?

Reporting structures vary widely among institutions and change over time. According to the annual ITC survey, distance learning reporting structures shifted from “technology” to “academics” ending up with 80% of respondents indicating that they report…


Reporter’s notebook

Los Angeles district pilots teaching certain classes in Spanish A final push to get short-term Pell done this year Strengthening student support services Research on math, CTE efforts in Virginia Los Angeles district pilots teaching…


The problem with PDFs: It’s an accessibility thing

The letters P, D and F – which stand for “portable document format” – changed the world back in 1991, and they have become a common source of information on college websites. Rather than creating…


Workforce partnerships missing their full potential

New research by the Harvard Business School in partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) shows a significant disconnect between community colleges and business and industry when it comes to collaborating on workforce…