Commentary: Community colleges are helping students more than ever in the pandemicHechinger ReportIt’s time to rethink how we measure community college success. Commentary: Community colleges joining together for NM successAlbuquerque JournalIn New Mexico, community colleges…
Interim CEO Marsha Gable, vice president of student services at Grossmont College in California, will serve as interim president of the college, starting on January 1. She previously served as interim president of San Diego…
The House on Friday passed a bill that would revamp the nation’s main apprenticeship law, even managing to secure votes from some Republicans. In a 246-to-140 vote, Democrats passed their 2020 National Apprenticeship Act, with…
More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled tradesWashington PostOne in 12 students now at community colleges — or more than 940,000 — previously earned a bachelor’s degree, according to the…
Butler County Community College’s (BC3) 23-year-old College Within the High School program, which gives sophomores through seniors the opportunity to earn transferrable college credits, has exceeded 500 students in a semester for the first time….
Washington Watch is produced by the AACC office of government relations and policy analysis. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has joined with the American Council on Education (ACE) and other higher education groups…
Bank of America on Thursday announced that it will provide $1 million grants to 21 higher education institutions to enhance up-skilling and reskilling for Black and Hispanic-Latino students. More than half of those institutions are…
Commentary: How one community college is providing free behavioral health services to all its students and employeesForbesRecognizing the psychological distress and mental health problems caused by the worsening Covid-19 pandemic, Ozarks Technical Community College in…
According to Measure of America, the number of teens and young adults disconnected from both work and school in the United States fell for the eighth year in a row, from a recession-fueled high of…
Raven McDonald graduated from Abbeville Christian Academy in 2003 and went straight off to a university. After a little time there, she found that it wasn’t what she expected. That’s when she talked to some…