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Black history woven into its fabric

Black history is woven into the fabric of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) whose tapestries are rich in Black culture, tradition, triumphs and tribulation. The University of the District of Columbia, which is the…


Tackling mental health

Mental health is the next frontier for some community colleges, with Covid bringing into clearer focus the need to improve mental health services to help fulfill their mission of educating students. The Alamo Colleges District…



Snapshots

Photos from AACC-member colleges. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Oregon)(center), a community college alumna and a senior member of the House Education and the Workforce’s Higher Education Subcommittee, visited Oregon’s Tillamook Bay Community College to learn about…


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Attorney General Josh Stein meets with area leaders to discuss opioid settlement Hendersonville Times-News North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein made a stop at Blue Ridge Community College this week to discuss the allocation of…


Newsmakers

CEO on the move Sonya Christian will serve as the next permanent chancellor of California Community Colleges, the largest system of public higher education in the country, effective June 1. She is currently chancellor of…


The trickle-down effect

The two faculty members on South Arkansas Community College’s (SouthArk) MentorLinks team had high expectations of their MentorLinks mentor Elizabeth Hawthorne based on the positive things they had heard about her from information technology instructors…


10 trends to watch in distance learning

As we all know, prior to the Covid pandemic, the growth of online enrollments at colleges and universities had been phenomenal. As late as 2019, online enrollments were on average 25% of overall community college…


Insight into workforce development boards

Workforce programs at community colleges must be tied to local employment needs. That means forging partnerships in the community with employers and workforce development board. Melanie Anderson, executive vice president of the National Association of…


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Some people going into the trades wonder why their classmates stick with college Hechinger Report “When CTE was vocational education, part of the reason we had a real disinvestment from the system was because we…