Updated guidance to serve former inmates DOL awards grants for pre-apprenticeships Updated guidance to serve former inmates The U.S. Education Department (ED) has updated its guidance for colleges that serve formerly incarcerated individuals. The 2023…
Clock ticks on college Covid relief dollars Politico’s Weekly Education The Biden administration as soon as this week could begin accepting requests from colleges for extra time to spend their share of federal Covid relief…
In teaching online and hybrid classes for nearly a dozen years, Blinn College English professor Becky Almany spotted a curious trend. It wasn’t the content that often tripped up students in her courses. It was…
CEOs on the move William Wainwright, who has served for seven years as chancellor of Northshore Technical Community College (NTCC) in Louisiana, has been named the next president of Southeastern Louisiana University. During his tenure…
There is a group of tiny homes on Jackson College‘s Central Campus known as Jets Village. The village at the Michigan college was created in 2021 to help accommodate families, including single parents, trying to…
Commentary: Final test for Connecticut’s community colleges Connecticut Post Without more funding, the president of the Connecticut System of Colleges and Universities projects that community college students will be hit with 10% tuition increases over…
Bipartisan groups of policymakers in the House and Senate have announced the bipartisan reintroduction of the College Transparency Act (CTA), legislation that the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has long supported. Sen. Bill Cassidy…
Walter Bumphus Walter Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, will represent community colleges on the newly formed Council on Higher Education as a Strategic Asset (HESA). The council represents a…
How the promise of free college doesn’t always help low-income students Hechinger Report A handful of states are trying something different. They’re launching “first-dollar” programs, in which money from the state can be applied first…
Saying that it’s time for open educational resources (OER) is almost a truism in higher education. The percentage of faculty across all sectors of U.S. higher education who say they use OER for their introductory…