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In the cold of a Nebraska winter, amidst the misery of the Covid pandemic, recruiters from Northeast Community College in Norfolk began reaching out to high schools with a message of hope for students. In…
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Feds to end dual-enrollment experiment, disappointing participating collegesWashington PostThe U.S. Education Department is gathering data from a recent experiment that lets high school students enrolled in college courses pay for them using federal grants, but…
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Fake student bot accounts at California colleges tied to suspected Covid-19 relief scamLos Angeles TimesThe 116-campus state community college system is beefing up internal reporting and security measures after finding that 20% of recent traffic…
Broadening the Mentor-Connect opportunity
Mentor-Connect is opening its mentoring services to two-year college STEM faculty members who have not previously received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. In the past, the Mentor-Connect mentoring…
Disparities continue in transfer mobility
Higher education lost about 191,500 transfer students between July 2020 and June 2021, or -8.4% compared to the previous year. That’s according to research by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center. Lateral and reverse…
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Pandemic pivot: New supports for students who enter college lacking basic skills Crain’s Detroit BusinessSome colleges in Southeast Michigan reported lower remedial enrollment during the pandemic, including Macomb and Oakland community colleges. That may be…
Funding roundup
With a $5 million donation to Missouri’s East Central College (ECC), “lives will be changed and lives will be saved,” said President Jon Bauer. The historic gift comes from an anonymous couple who were already…
Finding a way to make it work
It’s almost 8 p.m. by the time Marixochitl Pratz – Mari to her friends and family – gets the chance to sit down and talk about her life and experiences at El Paso Community College…
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Commentary: $3B Department of Commerce initiative has big workforce implicationsNew AmericaThe Investing in America’s Communities funding opportunities emphasize worker equity and job quality in regional economic development projects. U.S. education secretary touts free community college…
Rising from the rubble: What we’ve learned one year after Hurricane Laura
On August 27, 2020, just 10 days after the start of SOWELA Technical Community College’s fall semester and amid the second serious Covid wave, Hurricane Laura nearly wiped out the Lake Charles area and caused…