Oakton Community College (OCC) is partnering with a national cannabis company to build a new lab on campus that will train workers for the local and regional emerging cannabis industry. The Illinois college will develop…
As part of its overall advocacy strategy to promote equity and student success, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is endorsing a doubling of the Pell Grant maximum. The Pell Grant program continues to…
Community colleges at a crossroads: Enrollment is plummeting, but political clout is growingWashington PostLeaders of the sector sense a unique chance to promote their schools. “It is quite a moment,” said Walter G. Bumphus, president…
The Senate on Monday confirmed Miguel Cardona, Connecticut’s education commissioner, as secretary of the U.S. Education Department (ED) by a vote of 64 to 33. Walter Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of…
Commentary: Aligning policy with principle: NASFAA’s take on student debt forgivenessNASFAA blogOn the surface, forgiving student debt seems like a no-brainer, but to make it effective, there’s more we need to consider, writes Justin Draeger,…
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers aren’t the only Super Bowl winners this season. Florida’s St. Petersburg College (SPC) has received a $15,000 grant from the Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV Host Committee to support a local…
Last year, just as Covid-19 was beginning to spread and many colleges and universities across the country were scrambling to send students home to finish their spring semesters online, CC Daily ran this piece, “Coronavirus,…
The air temperature is 24 degrees Fahrenheit, feeling more like 19 in this breeze, and the water, just under this 4-inch mantle of ice, is 32. Across campus, her contemporaries enrolled in Butler County Community…
House Democrats pass Biden’s $1.9T relief plan despite setback on minimum wageWashington PostThe vote closed early Saturday morning, with Republicans repeatedly decrying the legislation as a partisan boondoggle and Democrats defending it as much-needed relief….
Even before Covid, globalization and technological advances permanently changed the U.S. workforce. The pandemic turbocharged these changes. In 1970, one in four jobs were in manufacturing; today, it’s one in 10. As automation takes different…