Tackling workforce gender issues
Growing up in Iowa, Lauren Wieser had a hobbyist’s interest in all things mechanical, whether dismantling her bicycle for fun or tinkering underneath the hood of the family truck. “It was mostly about how the…
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California community college financial aid scam triggers federal warning to other campusesLos Angeles TimesU.S. education officials have issued a warning to thousands of colleges and universities across the nation to be on alert for fraud…
Funding roundup
In Connecticut, Asnuntuck Community College’s (ACC’s) Women’s Leadership Institute received a $4,000 donation from the Carol Rivest Memorial Foundation. The institute, which was established to help women develop their leadership skills and ability, will use…
Investing in wildfire resiliency
Several wildfires are raging in California right now. The Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) community is too familiar with the destruction and devastation wildfires cause. Its members have been in the path of several and…
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Commentary: This Labor Day, support tech programs, community collegesPalm Beach PostThis Labor Day, as we celebrate those who work hard to build America, let’s also support the educational programs they need. How federal higher education…
Going straight to good use
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…