The latest incarnation of the House’s Build Back Better Act (BBB), released on Wednesday, adds two major community college-led workforce education programs. Taken together, these programs would award grants totaling $6.1 billion over the next…
International education at community colleges is increasingly recognized as essential for building a more inclusive civil society and ensuring a strong U.S. economy. As the country focuses on issues of equity and workforce development in…
A deep dive into data helped officials at Florida’s Broward College understand who they were reaching and, more importantly, who they weren’t. It led to a transformative program serving Broward County – a program that…
A new partnership – and big investment from Microsoft – will work to meet the nation’s demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals. For every two cybersecurity jobs filled in the United States, there’s a third job…
Although the attention of federal higher education policymakers has shifted to other issues, waiting in the wings for vigorous public scrutiny is an accounting of how higher education institutions have used Higher Education Emergency Relief…
Part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) mission is “to recruit, retain and develop a diverse, high-performing workforce that draws from all segments of society and values fairness, diversity, and inclusion to promote the progress…
Eyeing the airline workforceSpeaking of pipelines… Va. college extends its free tuition program Eyeing the airline workforce The pandemic has exacerbated concerns about workforce pipelines for jobs in the aviation industry, according to a new…
From 2019 to 2020, real median incomes among U.S. householders ages 25 and older dropped for all educational attainment groups, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau, whose collected information coincided with…
Enrollments at community colleges continued to drop this fall by -5.6%, according to preliminary information from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center. Combined with the -9.0% decline two-year colleges experienced last fall, enrollments at…
Editor’s note: This article is provided by the Instructional Technology Council, an affiliated council of the American Association of Community Colleges. Over the past several years, many community colleges have engaged in training sessions to increase awareness…