Pride Month and beyond
With Pride Month upon us, the Community College of Aurora (CCA) is taking steps to ensure that all people feel safe, welcomed and accepted as they embark on their educational journey. CCA is the most…
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An eye on returning learners with no credentials
Findings in a new report support that students — including students who had “some college but no credential” (SCNC) — are slowly returning to postsecondary education. The latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC)…
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Community and technical colleges continue to recruit more students in Tennessee WBIR One of the growing programs at the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technologies in Knoxville is surgical technology. Commentary: How Virginia’s FasrForward Program is…
Donation to Arkansas college is a home run
A $10 million donation from Murphy Oil Corporation will fund capital improvement projects at South Arkansas College – including a residence hall and a new baseball stadium. “We believe that funding these key capital projects…
Washington Watch: Some hope for Workforce Pell bill
There is an outside chance that the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act (H.R, 6585), which was pulled from scheduled House floor action six weeks ago, may receive a floor vote as an amendment untitled amendment to…
When students’ four-year college plans change
Recent high school seniors who planned to attend a four-year college this fall but opted not to didn’t just give up on college. In fact, more than half of those students (53%) selected another path,…
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Proposed scholarships would make going to college cheaper in Pa., but there’s a catch Centre Daily Times State lawmakers have differing views on how to make college more affordable. GRCC opening AI Incubator later this…
Washington Watch: ADA requirements extended to websites, apps
Community college officials spending this summer preparing to implement a litany of new federal regulations have another to add to their to-do list. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) final rule defining accessible web and…
Room to grow in CalFresh
The CalFresh program in California can reduce hunger by helping college students pay for groceries. However, the program is not reaching all eligible students, and eligibility requirements are limiting access to the program for many…
Newsmakers
New CEO Cory Clasemann will become the next president of Southeast Technical College (STC) in South Dakota, effective mid-July. Most recently, Clasemann was assistant vice president for institutional transformation assessment at the John N. Gardner…