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A busy week for community college advocatesSupporting voter rights A busy week for community college advocates Next week is shaping up to be a packed week for community college advocates. On Monday, First Lady Dr….
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Editorial: SC showed apprenticeships work. Congress should expand them nationwide.Charleston Post CourierRegistered apprenticeships led by the South Carolina Technical College System have emphatically proven their worth. Congress could easily triple the number of these valuable…
Former AACC board chair, Bronx college CEO passes away
Carolyn Grubbs Williams, a nationally renowned community college leader who was the first woman to lead Bronx Community College (BCC) in New York, passed away on Wednesday at her home in Detroit. She was 81….
A different college path
Andrew Hunter is just 19 years old, but you can’t tell it from his resume. At a stage in life when many of his peers are just settling into college life, Hunter has already graduated…
A look at faculty, presidents’ salaries
The annual compensation survey by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) provides a glimpse at how faculty members have fared over the past year. Overall, average full-time faculty salaries among surveyed U.S. colleges and…
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Community colleges turn to new incentives for recruitmentInside Higher EdCommunity college leaders are intentionally focusing on what resources students, especially first-generation students, need to feel they can successfully navigate remote learning, says Martha Parham of…
Funding roundup
In Minnesota, Ridgewater College’s nondestructive testing technology (NDT) program received nearly $200,000 in equipment and supplies from an Iowa power plant. The donation is from Duane Arnold Energy Center of Iowa. In addition, Curtiss-Wright Nuclear…
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California community college enrollment plummets amid pandemic, putting some campuses at riskLos Angeles TimesColleges that experienced significant drops could be at risk if they “don’t stabilize or build back enrollment” over the next several years,…
Infusing equity into campus operations
In recent years and especially over the past 12 months, with the Covid-19 pandemic and the unrest after the death of George Floyd, community colleges have been making efforts to view and rethink their missions…
Transfer rates drop, continue to mirror enrollment declines
Far fewer college students transferred to other institutions over the past year mainly a result of declining college enrollments prompted by the pandemic, and community college students again saw the biggest drops, according to a…