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Colorado community college seeks to fill shortage of nurses with bachelor’s degrees KUNC Matthew Roberts is one of about 20 students enrolled in the first class of the Front Range Community College’s new RN-BSN (Bachelor…
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MentorLinks provides colleges with opportunities
Editor’s note: This article is part of a series focusing on MentorLinks, a program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and managed by the American Association of Community Colleges. During its first year in MentorLinks program, the…
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New numbers show more colleges using high school grades, not just standardized tests, to determine if students require remedial coursework LA School Report The share of community colleges and four-year public universities that have started…
Q&A with John Ratzenberger
Editor’s note: This excerpt comes from the current issue of our sister publication, the Community College Journal, published by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) since 1930. John Ratzenberger is an American actor, voice actor,…
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Homeless in college: Students sleep in cars, on couches when they have nowhere else to go USA Today Three years ago, Kyshawna Johnson, 23, had a lot more than homework on her mind as she…
At rural colleges, workforce development on a budget
It has nothing to do with Monty Python, but the Flying Circus drone-race events during the past three years in Covington, Virginia, are one of many reasons and indications that rural community colleges and their…
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How community colleges are supporting low-income black, Latino students Chicago Daily Herald Daliyah Sanders, 19, transferred to Harper College from a four-year college in Chicago that didn’t offer her the personalized attention she needed. Harper,…
Building a teacher pipeline
San Diego Mesa College is working to mold a new generation of K-12 educators from diverse backgrounds that reflect the students they teach. The California college is partnering with the San Diego Unified School District,…
Funding roundup
Tens of thousands of community college students in Washington state will benefit from the generosity of Eva Gordon, a Seattle resident who passed away in 2018 at the age of 105. In mid-December, her estate…
Addressing the changing workforce
Exactly a year ago in this very column, I focused on the increased interest in community colleges and their ability to create and sustain the workforce education programs that are vital to the employment pipeline…