Promise fulfilled
Among San Diego Community College District’s (SDCCD) record 4,000 graduates this spring are several dozen students from San Diego City, Mesa and Miramar colleges who are graduating debt-free thanks to the San Diego Promise free…
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Little support in U.S. for college students raising children PBS NewsHour Weekend After years squeezing morning and night class between part-time jobs and countless trips to and from daycare and after-school programs, Amber Angel, a…
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Baking his way to the top Community colleges are on a (perfectly baked and decorated) roll. Last week, Cory Barrett, a culinary instructor at Michigan’s Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC), won Food Network’s “Spring Baking Championship.”…
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Warner reintroduces student debt relief bill FairfaxNews.com With the Senate preparing to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia) has reintroduced three pieces of legislation aimed at providing urgent relief to borrowers amid…
Prepping students for a changing IT world
The lights were dim in Jason Alvarado’s Thursday afternoon “Ethical Hacking and System Defense” class at Richland College in Texas. Morgan Christianis a media relations intern at the Dallas County Community College District in Texas.More…
National workforce group rolls up its sleeves
Corporate leaders and officials from the White House, government agencies and business groups convened at the American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) offices in Washington, D.C., Thursday to discuss how employers and education leaders can…
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Residents of ‘fragile communities’ value higher education Gallup Despite increasing costs, 62 percent of Americans in communities with concentrated poverty and limited access to educational and economic opportunities say a college education is “very important.”…
Inequities in public college funding
If state and federal policymakers want to increase college completion rates among minority students, increasing funding for community colleges and regional universities is a good place to start, according to a new brief from The…
App to it
When McHenry County College (MCC) student Emily Rainer enrolled in MCC’s mobile design development program, her new knowledge and high-level skills enabled her to start working in her career even before she graduates this week….
What makes AU! work
In fall 2018, West Kentucky Community and Technical College (WKCTC) and Murray State University (MSU) launched a unique partnership leveraging the two institutions’ skill sets and resources in western Kentucky. Tyra F. Hendersonis an associate…