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Walla Walla Community College could see biggest loss of staff among Valley colleges over vaccine mandateWalla Walla Union BulletinThe Washington college has the potential to lose the highest number of employees — over a dozen…
COVID-19
Q&A: Focusing on the whole student
iStock Even before Covid hit the U.S., North Carolina’s Forsyth Technical Community College was designing a program to focus on whole-person care for students with barriers to success. When the pandemic gripped the country, President…
Gauging students about paying for college, safety and support
Nearly one-quarter of surveyed community college students said they had problems this spring paying for college due to the pandemic, according to a new report. Another 20% said they struggled to pay for college, but…
ATE prepares technicians for what’s next
The 28th Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Principal Investigators’ Conference opened Wednesday with a discussion of the nation’s supply chain that provided insights about the opportunities for community colleges and their students that exist amid the…
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Democrats set to cut free community college, climate program from Biden’s economic plan as they trim price tagCNBCDemocrats will likely scrap free community college from their sprawling economic plan as they move to cut costs…
Reporter’s notebook
House bill aims to help older workersThreading new skills Partnership offers computer science degrees to Egyptian students House bill aims to help older workers House Democrats this week introduced legislation to help older workers upgrade…
Snapshots
Editor’s note: Recent photos from member colleges of the American Association of Community Colleges. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear this month joined college leaders and state and local officials to open Bluegrass Community and Technical College’s $2.7 million…
Headlines
Biden admits his $3.5T plan won’t pass without major cutsNew York Post“I doubt we’re going to get the entire funding for community colleges, but I’m not going to give up on community colleges as long…
Community colleges step into teacher ed breach
The demand for teachers in the United States exceeded the supply by more than 100,000 in 2019 for the first time ever, according to the Washington-based Learning Policy Institute, and that was before the challenges…
Defining our future
I recently read something that inspired me to carefully reflect on community colleges. In a passage about the history of the sector, it noted that “great challenges faced the United States … including global economic…