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Funding roundup

Holyoke Community College has received an $81,605 Bridges to College grant from the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education to expand its Western Mass CORE program. CORE stands for “community, opportunity, resources and education.” The program…


AACC news & notes

Upcoming events Register for AACC AnnualAACC Annual provides an opportunity for community college professionals to network and learn. The 2023 meeting will take place April 1-4 in Denver. Keynote speakers include former Daily Show host…


2023 AACC Awards of Excellence finalists

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has announced the finalists for its 2023 Awards of Excellence, which underscore the association’s priorities and brings national visibility to promising practices among its member colleges. Winners will…


Recruitment, support and then completion

With the pandemic years almost completely behind us, community colleges across the country now have several new challenges to work on. The large drop in student enrollment is the first. This began before the pandemic…


Kickstarting a biotech program at Compton

The MentorLinks application requires faculty members to obtain their college president’s signature on their application. That request led to a conversation between Compton College President Keith Curry and Katherine A. Marsh, an assistant professor of biology,…


Newsmakers

New CEO Kristina Whalen will serve as Foothill College’s next president, effective March 31. A veteran educator with 25 years of experience in higher education, she is currently vice president of academic services at Las…



Headlines

College while in high school: How dual credit is aiming for equity Christian Science Monitor Almost four decades after Minnesota launched the first statewide program, a majority of high schools offer dual credit, and roughly…


Headlines

CUNY phases out its last ‘remedial’ course, capping yearslong shift Chalkbeat New York New York City’s public community colleges, for the first time in decades, assigned no new students this year to “remedial” classes, marking…


Fall of a mall, rise of an incubator

For Michael Heindl, president of Northwest Mississippi Community College (NWCC), opportunity knocked when a major new mall at the Mississippi-Tennessee border, the Tanger Outlets Southaven, opened in 2015 and began pulling shoppers and then retailers…