The nation will need to fill about 1.7 million skilled-trades job openings each year through 2035, underscoring a challenge that goes beyond getting more people into training. More students and apprentices also need to finish…
A recent Washington Monthly magazine ranking of top-serving rural colleges doesn’t include any community colleges, but public two-year colleges came up often during a roundtable discussion about the list last week. The list marks the…
Utah’s tech colleges have massive waitlists, with more than 8K students in limbo. Relief could soon be on the way. Salt Lake Tribune More than 8,000 students who would like to enroll in Utah’s technical…
A decade ago, marketing teams managed a website and a couple of social media accounts. The most advanced teams were dabbling in Google AdWords or boosted Facebook posts. Since then, expectations have exploded. Platforms and…
Commentary: Demonstrating relevance through action EdNC Community colleges have always understood something that much of higher education is now being forced to rediscover: Some of the most important learning does not happen solely inside a…
In a night class at Saint Paul College in Minnesota, students spend their evenings learning the essential work of caring for other people: positioning a bedpan, emptying a catheter bag, rehearsing the skills that will…
Bronx Community College (BCC) celebrated the opening of its newly improved cardiovascular room in the Alumni Gym Fitness Center, made possible with a $100,000 investment through funding secured by New York State Assemblymember Yudelka Tapia…
(Editor’s note: This article was updated to provide context for why enrollment has dropped in Kansas.) Many community colleges are again reporting enrollment increases this fall, continuing a trend that started at the end of…
Amazon’s answer to data center backlash: $1B for community college and home energy upgrades Fortune (subscription required) Tech giants are trying to win over communities that oppose data centers as they pour billions into the…
As interest in short-term workforce training continues to grow, a new national research effort aims to better understand the students enrolling in noncredit programs and how colleges can better support them. The project, led by…