Arkansas State University-Mountain Home (ASUMH) students will benefit from two new scholarships endowed by Cynthia J. Aldrich. One scholarship, which received more than $100,000, will help current or former members of the armed services. Aldrich…
Nineteen-year-old Nick Soultanian has been building his own personal computers since the ninth grade, and was adept in code by his senior year of high school. He’s currently preparing for his future career in San…
Can a state help more residents finish college? EWA Radio (audio) With 75 percent of the state’s jobs requiring postsecondary credentials, Colorado looks to boost college and career training. Community colleges take steps to address…
Busy months ahead for appropriators The Senate on Thursday passed its budget agreement for the next two fiscal years (2020 and 2021), which will set top-line spending levels for defense and domestic programs and a…
The University of Alaska (UA) board of regents’ decision to consolidate the three universities in the system into one accredited institution could have a catastrophic impact on the system, including its associate degree-granting “community campuses.”…
Too busy to help Sacramento News & Review In his two years as homeless liaison, American River College’s Brett Sawyer says the group he supervises totaled between 40 and 50 homeless students. It’s difficult to…
Thinking of community colleges as a business is not a new concept, but it is a controversial one. Laura B. Leatherwoodis president of Blue Ridge Community College in North Carolina.More Posts
As a 14-year-old in the mid-1950s, I crafted a duck boat to paddle on the pond and glide on shallow water in the swamp near my home in rural Massachusetts, attuning myself to the subtle…
Editor’s note: Community College Journal, the flagship publication of the American Association of Community Colleges, has been around for almost 90 of the association’s upcoming 100 years. Here’s a look at the major redesigns of…
‘A whole new world’: New law lets Pennsylvania foster kids attend college tuition-free Morning Call A new state law allows youth who were in foster care to go to any college or university in Pennsylvania…