Amid COVID, wildfires and storms
If coping in the wake of the coronavirus wasn’t enough, community colleges in certain areas of the U.S. now are dealing with – or bracing for – storms and wildfires. Among immediate concerns is a pair…
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Pima College ‘reskilling’ effort aims to help Tucson workers hit by pandemicTuscon.comHelping lower-wage workers displaced by COVID-19 — particularly hard-hit women and minorities — is the goal of a new effort spearheaded locally by Pima…
Funding roundup
The U.S. Department of Education recently awarded millions of dollars in Student Support Services (SSS) program grants to several community colleges. The grants are meant to help colleges provide opportunities for academic development, assist students…
Risk mitigation and avoiding complacency
I have a confession. The “Pandemic” chapter in our Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) was inadequate. For more than three years, I served as vice president of administrative services at Joliet Junior College (JJC) in Illinois,…
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Pennsylvania college puts unused computers to work fighting COVID-19LevittownNow.comChris Ebinger, a senior network technician at Bucks County Community College, was already using his home computers for simulated experiments as part of IBM’s World Community Grid….
Washington Watch: Stimulus jockeying continues
Legislators have largely left Washington, D.C., for the national political conventions and the traditional August recess, but the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and other advocacy groups remain ever-focused on a possible new stimulus…
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CEO retirement Sanford “Sandy” Shugart, president of Valencia College in Florida since 2000, announced this week that he will retire from the college in June 2021. Under Shugart’s leadership, the Orlando college was the first…
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Persistence rates barely budgeIowa college re-opens after stormsRecord number of students for San Diego PromiseJill Biden’s nod to community college students Persistence rates barely budge For students who started college in fall 2018 at public…
New CARES-funded grant program for colleges
The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Wednesday announced new grants that colleges and universities with the greatest unmet need related to COVID-19 can use for an array of purposes, including improved disease prevention and distance…
DataPoints: Inroads in apprenticeships, despite COVID
Despite the pandemic, a national initiative led by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) to increase the number of apprentices and services throughout the U.S. has made significant advances in its first year. Expanding…