President-elect Donald Trump plans to add another wealthy business person and elite donor to his Cabinet, saying he would nominate fast-food executive Andrew Puzder as labor secretary. Puzder heads CKE Restaurants Holdings, the parent company…
Grads’ earnings can contribute to community college decisions U.S. News & World Report The U.S. Department of Education for the first time released data on the earnings of graduates from thousands of different career training…
Alabama Wallace State Community College’s 2+2 poultry science program got a boost from a $7,000 contribution from USPOULTRY Foundation. The funds were made possible by a contribution from Peco Foods, Inc. The 2+2 partnership with Auburn University’s poultry science…
Earnest Simpson enrolled in an electrical engineering program at an ITT Technical Institute campus in Virginia a year ago after being laid off from his shipyard job. His son Matthew soon followed, with the goal…
Jack Perrotta has been nurturing what he calls his “entrepreneurial spirit” since high school, when he made a few dollars doing landscape work or buying and trading consumer electronics. That homegrown energy, along with an…
About a third of community college students in California face a huge obstacle to academic success because they experience housing insecurity, according to a new report by the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL) at…
Universities and colleges in several states are considering labeling themselves “sanctuary campuses” amid fears from immigrant students and pressure from activists following the election of Donald Trump. College administrators in New Mexico — the state…
Editor’s note: This article comes from the AACC 21st-Century Center. Subscribe online to its free weekly digest. There are many programs across the nation designed to give community college staff and faculty the leadership skills…
North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx has landed the top post on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Foxx announced Friday that she will be the committee’s chairwoman for the next session of Congress….
How an economic developer is bringing factory jobs back to Miss. 60 Minutes Joe Max Higgins enlisted a community college to provide customized training for PACCAR so when the plant was ready, the workforce was…